Technology Watch

ITU has established Technology Watch to survey new technologies for possible new standardization activities in ITU and how such new technologies can be included within the ITU-T work programme.

Technology Watch identifies emerging technologies, as well as their likely impact on future standardization work for both developed and developing countries, with a view to identifying work items for possible new ITU-T Recommendations.

Technology Watch is managed by the Policy & Technology Watch Division, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. A short history of Technology Watch can be found here.

Technology Watch Reports

Technology Watch Reports are intended to provide an up-to-date assessment of new technologies in language that is accessible to non-specialists. Further, the reports assess the impact of new technologies both on developed and developing countries, analyses relevant standardization activities, with a view to identifying areas for new work in ITU-T.

Technology Watch has covered a broad range of topics: Biometrics, ICT and climate change, telepresence, ICT and food security, mobile apps, cloud computing, intelligent transportation systems, e-health, video games, etc.

Latest Technology Watch Reports

Standards for technology-enabled learning (September 2012)

E-health standards and interoperability (April 2012)

Privacy in cloud computing (March 2012)

Digital signage: the right information in all the right places (November 2011)

Trends in video games and gaming (September 2011)

List of all publications

Technology Watch Events

The objective of a Technology Watch Event is to give visibility to the importance of standards and standardization in an area surveyed by Technology Watch, to present and highlight the corresponding Technology Watch Report and to make links to other related activities in ITU, such as ITU-T Study Group work or Bridging the Standardization Gap.

Technology Watch Events bring together experts, industry, regulators and policy-makers to discuss the promise of new/emerging technologies. The first event, on the topic of networked RFID, was held in February 2006. Following the report on ICT and climate change, two international symposia, held in April and June 2008, laid the foundations for many ITU activities on the same topic. A workshop on ICT and road safety was held during WSIS Forum 2011 and a workshop on digital signage took place in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2011.

Other work

ITU-T: Global Standards for the Internet of Things

Future topics may include

Smart cities

Mobile money

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How to participate? Call for proposals

Standards Development Organizations like ITU-T need a constant flow of new topics that might become the subject of future Focus Groups, or provide information to Study Groups for the standardization work.

Experts from industry, research and academia are invited to submit topic proposals and abstracts for future reports in the Technology Watch series. Please contact us at tsbtechwatch@itu.int for details. Some guidelines for external authors are available here.

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