Mauro Flórez Calderón, President CITIC and Master Of Ceremony [ BIOGRAPHY ] Chairperson: Zoila Ramos, CITIC Director [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Welcome addresses:
Paolo Rosa, ITU-T, Head of TSB Workshop and Promotion Division [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Representatives from Government:
Javier Vélez Representing the President of the Republic of Ecuador Mr. Rafael Correa and Ministro encargado Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información del Ecuador
Fabian Jaramillo, Superintendente de Telecomunicaciones del
Ecuador [
PRESENTATION ]
09:40 - 10:10
Keynote address:
Mauro Flórez Calderón, President CITIC: Importancia de la conformidad e interoperabilidad como elementos esenciales de crecimiento económico, social y de conocimientos para los países en desarrollo. [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
10:10 - 10:50
Opening Session: The ITU Conformity Assessment and Interoperability Programme
Objectives: This session will provide the basis of the C&I philosophy, the ITU WTSA-08 Res. 76, the WTDC Res. 47 and the action lines endorsed by the ITU Council. It will show the ITU programme for conformity and interoperability including the status of the ITU Conformity Pilot Database.
Paolo Rosa, ITU-T, Head of TSB Workshop and Promotion Division:
WTSA-08 Resolution 76 and the ITU-T approach to Conformity Assessment and Interoperability for developing countries. [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 13:00
Session 1: Conformity assessment, Interoperability, Certification, test labs and capacity building.
Objectives: This session will consider Accreditation, Conformity Assessment and Interoperability Mutual
Recognition Agreements and Arrangements, and best practices followed in the industry and requested by customers.
The session will be enriched by the presentation of the ISO –CASCO toolbox taken as a reference by ITU for its C&I programme.
The need of capacity building and of test labs in the region will also be addressed
Luis Bolivar Aguilera, Director General, Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Normalizacion, INEN: The ISO/CASCO Toolbox [ PRESENTATION ]
Zoila Ramos, CITIC Director: El Impacto del Acuerdo de Reconocimiento Mutuo de las Américas. [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
Julio Cesar Foncesa, Anatel, Brazil: Regulatory Aspects on Conformity Assessment and Homologation for Telecommunication Products. [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Antonio Marini de Almeida, CPQDBrazil: Laboratories Available in Brazil [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
13:00 - 15:00
Lunch
15:00 - 16:30
Session 2: Views from industry, regulators, governments end users and civil society.
Objectives: This session will address the concerns from the end users, civil society
concerning the lack of conformity and interoperability and its impact on services as well as the views
of the industry in terms of additional costs associated to certification, time to market, delays for
new technologies. This session should also compare views on the improvement of the ITU Pilot Conformity Database.
Jorge Ernesto Torres, Comisión Técnica Regional de Telecomunicaciones de Centro América COMTELCA: Actividades de COMTELCA y los Estándares de la UIT [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Luis Enrique Conde del Oso, Jefe de Grupo de Estructura de la Red en el Departamento de Planes Estratégicos de la Vicepresidencia de Desarrollo y Tecnología ETECSA, Cuba: Propuesta para la Validación de la calidad del video del Servicio de IPTV [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
Asok Chatterjee, member of the Board of ATIS: ATIS and Interoperability in the Americas. [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
Guillermo Valdivia, Director de Supervisión y Fiscalización TELCOR, Nicaragua: Nicaragua and its Position at the ITU's Processes for Assessing Compliance and Interoperability Testing [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
Clovis Baptista, Secretario Ejecutivo, Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones, CITEL – OAS: Interamerican Agreement for Mutual Recognition for the Evaluation of Conformity of Telecommunication Equipment [ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
17:30 - 18:30
Panel Discussion: Proposals to improve the implementation of the ITU conformity and interoperability programme
Objectives: Improving the implementation of the ITU conformity and interoperability programme.
Improving the functionality and effectiveness of the pilot conformity database as a tool to permit
industry to show products declaring conformity to one or more ITU-T Recommendations. Solutions for the
concerns shown by some industries in terms of costs, time to market, participation in interoperability
events (ITU interop).
18:30 - 19:00
Closing Ceremony
Mauro Flórez Calderón, President CITIC [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Paolo Rosa, ITU-T, Head of TSB Workshop and Promotion Division [ BIOGRAPHY ]
