DoT, telcos officials get training on standards process ahead of global telecom meet in India

New Delhi: UN telecom body ITU and state-run NICF conducted a workshop for the Department of Telecom officials and telecom industry representatives on the process for shaping up the country’s proposals into global standards, an official statement said on Wednesday. The two-day workshop on “Bridging the Standardization Gap (BSG) on Effectiveness in Standardization” was conducted in Geneva ahead of the first-ever global meet World Telecom Standardization Assembly (WTSA) to be hosted by India.

While India is a large data producer and consumer of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) services, standardisation activities are at present dominated by China and the West.