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Programme
ITU Forum on Conformance and Interoperability
for the Arab and Africa Regions
Tunis
(Tunisia)
5-7 November 2012 |
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 1
(5 November 2012)
Registration: 8:00
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9:30 – 10:00 hours
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Opening Session
Chair of the Forum:
Mr. Rached Hamza
Moderator: Mrs. Haifa Ferjani Lassoued, Responsible of the
International Cooperation in CERT, Tunisia
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Welcome address from
the CEO of CERT: Mr. Rached Hamza
- Opening remarks from
ITU: Mr. Ebrahim Al-Haddad,
Regional Director, Arab Regional Office
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Opening remarks from
the Tunisian ICT Ministry:
Mr. Fathi Choubani, Advisor to the Minister
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Coffee break: 10:00 - 10:30 hours |
10:30 – 12:00 hours
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Session 1: ITU Activities on
Conformance and Interoperability
Chair: Mr. Ebrahim Al-Haddad,
Regional Director, Arab Regional Office
This session will review the ITU Resolutions on conformity and
interoperability. It will show the ITU C&I programme implementation
including an overview on the ITU Conformity Database and the ITU C&I
Portal
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Lunch break: 12:00 - 13:45 hours |
13:45 - 15:30 hours |
Session 2: International Organizations: Standards,
Procedures and Cooperation
Chair: Mr. Sami Trimech, ST2I
This session will consider the applicability of the global system for
conformity assessment (ISO/CASCO Toolkit) and the views of global
institutions in this field such as UNIDO, ILAC, IAF, COPANT, ISO and IEC
including their approach to Conformity Assessment, Interoperability,
Certification and Mutual Recognition Agreements and Arrangements
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Coffee break: 15:30 - 16:00 hours |
16:00 - 17:45 hours |
Session 3: Conformity Assessment and
Interoperability and Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs)
Chair: Mr. Karim Loukil, CERT, Tunisia
This session will consider the conformity assessment procedures set up
by various organizations, test suites, certification schemes especially
from experiences gained in the ARB and AFR regions. The view of the industry
with respect to conformity assessment and certification will be also
considered.
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 2
(6 November 2012)
8:45 – 10:45 hours
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Session 4: C&I Policies,
Accreditation, test labs, Certification, Regulations and needs in the
region: the experience in developing countries
Chair: Mr. Amine Mcharek, Tunisia
This session will present the situation of the region with respect to
laboratories, accreditation and certification schemes, regulators and
industry views. It will also consider the point of views of regulators concerning
the need of certification of products to be entered in a national
market and to fight counterfeit products. Proposals, experiences, certification and rules, solutions, TBT
issues. Best practices for labs accreditation, technologies covered,
conformity assessment schemes, associated costs and procedures, products
certification will be shown as well.
S4-4 -
Homologation des équipements de télécommunications: l’expérience de
la Mauritanie: Cheikh Tidjani OUDAA (Chef de Service Laboratoire
& Homologation/ ARE)
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Coffee break: 10:45 - 11:00 hours |
11:00 – 13:00 hours
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Session 5: Building Test Labs
Chair: Mr. Sami Ben Lassoued, ERICSSON
This session will show some key
elements of the BDT guidelines to set up laboratories in the region,
strategies, best practices, costs, status in the industries and their
labs.
This session will also present the accreditation schemes that could be
applied for the recognition by the ITU of conformity assessment bodies
(Laboratories) and best experiences, IAF and ILAC procedures for MRAs
and MLAs.
S5-2
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Technical and economical steps to be
followed to build Testing Labs according to the identified criteria
and characteristics outlined in ISO/IEC 17025
(Basic Steps to establish an ISO/IEC
17025 compliant testing laboratory):
Andrew Kwan (ITU Expert)
S5-3 -
Testing Laboratory experience in the AFR Region,
Tanzania's experience:
James Kilaba ( TCRA Tanzania)
S5-4 -
Testing Laboratory experience in the ARB Region,
Case Studies & Practices, Way Forward and Recommendations:
Alaa Al-Din (Aladdin) Al-Radhi (ICT/Telecom/Internet
Strategist & Consultant)
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Lunch break: 13:00 - 14:30 hours |
14:30 - 15:30 hours |
Session 6: Panel Session
vendors, operators and service providers: "Understanding the complexity
of Accreditation, Conformity Assessment, Certification and Interoperability"
Moderator/Session Chair: Alaa Al-Din (Aladdin) Al-Radhi (ICT/Telecom/Internet
Strategist & Consultant)
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15:30 - 16:00 hours |
Session 7: Formation of Interactive groups
Pillars 1 & 2 and Pillars 3 & 4
Chairmen: Riccardo Passerini and
Paolo Rosa (ITU)
Moderators/Animators: Riccardo Passerini, Paolo Rosa, Bill McCrum, Andrew Kwan,
Denis Andreev
Interactive groups will make possible discussions among the participants to find
possible solutions to a satisfactorily implementation of the four pillars of the
ITU C&I programme.
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Coffee break: 16:00 - 16:30 hours |
16:30 – 18:00 hours
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Session 7A:
Interactive session on Pillars 1 and 2 of
the ITU C&I Program
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Session 7B:
Interactive session on Pillars 3 and 4 of
the ITU C&I Program
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 3
(7 November 2012)
9:00 – 10:30 hours
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Session 7A (cont'd):
Interactive session on Pillars 1 and 2 of
the ITU C&I Program
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Session 7B (cont'd):
Interactive session on Pillars 3 and 4 of
the ITU C&I Program
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Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00 hours |
11:00 – 11:30 hours
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Presentations from the interactive
sessions
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11:30 – 12:30 hours
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Session 8: Implementation of
the C&I Programme and Action Plan
Moderators: Paolo Rosa and Riccardo Passerini (ITU)
Panel:
Follow
up for the implementation of the C&I programme in the region based on
the results of the interactive sessions. Steps to be undertaken to
facilitate the creation of regional test labs and to create capacity
building opportunities at a regional level. Establishment of further
actions economical, technical and regional presence.
Discussions with Panelists will follow |
12:30 - 13:00 hours |
Remarks and closing Ceremony
- ITU
- Hosting Administration
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Lunch: 13:00 hours |
Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
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