Meet ITU’s next top elected officials: Seizo Onoe
By ITU News
“ITU standardization needs to contribute to people’s lives and society, where it leads to social and economic development,” says Seizo Onoe, the next Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Onoe was elected to the post on 30 September at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
While recognizing the key role of ITU’s standardization sector (ITU-T) in making information and communication technologies (ICTs) and telecommunication systems interoperable worldwide, Onoe says “the dissemination and implementation of standards are even more important.”
Onoe – sometimes described as the “father of LTE” (Long-Term Evolution, a wireless broadband standard for mobile devices and data terminals) – highlights the importance of cooperation between ITU and the technology industry.
“We need industry to implement standards. More involvement from industry will help with the dissemination of new technologies,” says Onoe, adding: “Telecom standards only become meaningful when they are widely spread.”
The newly elected TSB Director aims to create a sustainable standards cycle, in which “economies of scale and the competition principle lead to cost reduction, making services and products affordable.”
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