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The conference also featured a special session and tutorial.

The special session presented ITU standardization work on future networks as well as data processing
and management for the Internet of Things and Smart Cities & Communities. The session featured
four expert panelists. Jun Kyun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
presented on “Open data platform and ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to
support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities”. Subin Shen, Nanjing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, China, presented on “Blockchain and its possible related standardization work
for the IoT”. Shao Weixiang, ZTE, China, presented on “How to make the interoperability of IoT
data”. Ved Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, and
Rapporteur in ITU-T Study Group 13, presented on “Future network technologies for placement of
IoT data and processing functions”. Ved Kafle also organized and ran a tutorial on the prospect of
academic contributions to ITU standardization, highlighting potential for researchers to have their
work incorporated into international standards.

Thanks to an ITU agreement with IEEE Communications Society, selected papers from each year’s
Kaleidoscope conference are considered for publication in a special-feature section of IEEE
Communications Standards Magazine. Extended versions of Kaleidoscope papers are also considered
for publication in special issues of the International Journal of Technology Marketing, the
International Journal of Standardization Research, and the Journal of ICT Standardization.

All accepted and presented papers have been submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library. The Kaleidoscope Conference Proceedings from 2009 onwards can be downloaded free of
charge from http://itu-kaleidoscope.org.

I would like to thank our sponsors and technical co-sponsors, our supportive partners and Alessia
Magliarditi and her team from ITU for playing the leading role in the year-on-year progression of the
Kaleidoscope series of academic conferences.

Zhen Yang
President of NJUPT

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