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Assessing standardization needs and issues to bridge and to measure the standardization gap in Asia Pacific
Joint ITU/CTO event:
“Bridging Standardization Gap, ITR and
Interoperability issues”
13 September 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Paolo Rosa
Head, Workshops and Promotion Division
munication
Standardization
Bureau
Colombo `13 Sept. 2010
Outline
Defining the standardization gap
Measuring and evaluating the gap
ITU-T activities to bridging the gap
ITU-T Member State Participation
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Region A - The Americas (216)
Region B - Western Europe (178)
Region C - Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (73)
Region D - Africa (182)
Region E - Asia and Australasia (460)
Member States: 191 governments
Sector Members: 565 private sector
Membership fee: 31,800 CHF (~= 29k USD)
Associates: 154 private sector
(one Study Group only)
Membership fee: 10,600 CHF (~= USD)
Today, 95% of the work in ITU-T is done by the private sector
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Colombo `13 Sept. 2010
The Standardization Gap
Disparities in the ability of developing countries to access, implement, contribute to and influence international ICT standards, specifically ITU-T mendations
Disparities in the representation of developing countries cause and manifestation of:
Persistence of the wider digital divide in ICTs (., among different regions and groups within the society)
Unequal access to technology and the ability to use that technology
For case studies, best practices, statistics and analysis of the GAP, see the newly-issued 
”ITU-T Research Report on Bridging the Standardization Gap (December 2009)”, and
“Bridging the Standardization Gap Activity Report (June 2010)”
/ITU-T/gap/Pages/
Digital Divide Standardization Gap & Participation Relationship
Increase Participation &
Capacity Building
Standardization Gap &
Poor Access to Technologies
Digital Divide ≈-----------------------------------
The concept of Opportunity Index to measure the information society
Infodens