
These standards are used by equipment manufacturers, telecommunication network operators and service providers throughout the wold to drive the information society. The move further demonstrates ITU’s commitment to bridging the digital divide by extending the results of its work to the global community. ITU-T recommendations are developed in a unique contribution-driven and consensus-based environment by representatives of industry and government, with industry providing the most significant technical input. A strong focus of current standards work is laying the foundation for next-generation network (NGN).
Malcolm Johnson, director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standards Bureau (TSB), presented the results of the trial to the 2007 meeting of ITU’s Council. He said that not only had the experiment been a success in raising awareness of ITU-T it would also attract new members. Most importantly, he noted, it had helped efforts to bridge the ‘standardization gap’ between countries with resource to pursue standardization issue and those without.
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