ITU Activities related to Digital Content Delivery

The involvement of the ITU in issues related to Digital Content Delivery is listed as follows:

  ITU-SG

Workshop on "The Future of Voice", which focused on the role of the voice in the future ubiquitous network environment, Geneva, January 2007

An international experts workshop under the ITU New Initiatives Programme on the "The Regulatory Environment for Future Mobile Multimedia Services" was held from 21-23 June 2006 in Mainz, Germany

Workshop focusing on "The Policy and Regulatory Challenges Related to the Deployment of IP-enabled NGNs", Geneva, March 2006

Under the Shaping Tomorrow's Networks Initiative a Workshop on "Tomorrow’s Network Today",  was held in Italy, October 2005

ITU and its Activities Related to Internet Protocol (IP) Networks

ITU NGN Policy and Regulatory Resources

ITU Internet Report 2006: digital.life

  ITU-T

Study Group 13: Next Generation Networks

Study Group 9: Integrated broadband cable networks and television and sound transmission

Study Group 17: Question 1/17 - End-to-end Multicast Communications with QoS Managing Facility

Next Generation Network: Global Standards Initiative (NGN-GSI)

IPTV Focus Group (FG IPTV)

ITU-T IPTV GLOBAL TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, Korea, October 2006

ITU-T Workshop on Multimedia in NGN, Geneva, September 2007

  ITU-D

ITU-D Technologies Infrastructures and Applications
ITU-D 7th GSR The Road to Next Generation Networks (NGN): Can regulators promote investment and achieve open access?

  ITU TELECOM

THE FORUM @ ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 "Living the Digital World", Hong Kong, China, December 2006

The OECD’s Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) is undertaking analysis of the digital delivery of content. This work recognises that the rapid development of high-quality "always on" broadband Internet services is transforming high-growth industries that provide or have the potential to provide digital content.

OECD Work on Digital Content

Conference on the Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access 30-31 January 2006

Creative Content Programme Supports creativity and innovation in local content production in radio, television and new media

NEM is one of the European Industrial Initiatives, also known as Technology Platforms, established by relevant key European stakeholders, which address the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalized broadband access, increased mobility, availability of richer media formats and contents, as well as new home networks and communications platforms

NEM - The convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications, David Kennedy, Eurescom

NEM Vision

DLNA aligns industry leaders in the CE, mobile, and PC industries through digital interoperability. Members of the Digital Living Network Alliance share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of Personal Computers, Consumer Electronics and mobile devices in the home enabling a seamless environment for sharing and growing new digital media and content services.

DLNA Overview and Vision White Paper 2007

eContentplus programme multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable

The "i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment" initiative was launched  as a framework for addressing the main challenges and developments in the information society and media sectors up to 2010. It promotes an open and competitive digital economy and emphasises ICT as a driver of inclusion and quality of life. The initiative contains a range of EU policy instruments to encourage the development of the digital economy such as regulatory instruments, research and partnerships with stakeholders. Studies conducted by i2010

Audiovisual Media Services Directive

New Zealand Digital Content Strategy

UK Digital Content Strategy, Digital Content Forum and TV without Frontiers Directive