Officials of the Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau (TSB) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will meet next week in Accra to participate in the Africa Region’s Preparatory Meeting for the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA).
The meeting precedes this year’s WTSA’s Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 21 to 30 2008 that would adopt working methods and approve the ITU-T work programme as well as appoint chairs and vice chairs of Study Groups.
Ghana’s host slated May 26 to 30, 2008, is to offer African countries the platform to deliberate on world standardisation issues of common concern to the continent and adopt common proposals for presentation to the WTSA.
Standardisation is a universally agreed set of guidelines for interoperability, and the ITU –T is the body responsible for setting globally accepted standards for ICT. The WTSA is convened every four years by the ITU.
The Accra meeting would organise a forum on the theme: “Bridging the ICT Standardisation Gap in Developing Countries” in recognition of the continued shortage of human resources in the standardization field of developing countries.
The Standardisation Gap is defined as disparities in the ability of developing countries, relative to the developed ones, to access, implement, contribute to and influence international ICT standards, specifically ITU recommendations.
The Ministry of Communications and the National Regulatory Agencies have in the past involved in ITU standardization activities to help in the standards requirements for new technologies and technological convergence in ICT that are creating major standardization challenges.
Source: GNA
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