@LIS, @METIS What is it, what are we aiming at?

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_at_LIS, _at_METISWhat is it, what are we aiming at?
_at_METIS Kick Off Meeting Sophia Antipolis, March
30-31 2005
Margot Dor Business Development, ETSI _at_LIS DoS
Coordinator
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Overall context the EU _at_LIS Programme_at_LIS-Alli
ance for Information SocietyReinforcing
partnership between the European Union and Latin
America in the field of the Information Society

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The _at_LIS Programme

• A four year EU (DG AIDCO) funded project
  (2003/2006)
• Objective
• Increase cooperation between EU and Latin America
  on Information Society related topics
• Help bridge the digital divide
• Means
• 88 million Euros
• Co-financed 80/20
• Ways
• 3 dialogues (policy, regulation, standards)
• 1 Network of Stakeholders (coordination function)
• Interconnection of research networks
• 19 Demonstration projects

http//europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alis/
index_en.htm
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A birds eye view of the _at_LIS programme
19 Demonstration Projects
e-health
digital inclusion

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e-education
e-gov.
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Interconnection of Research Networks (Geant/Red
Clara)
Dialogue on Standardization (ETSI)
Network of Regulators (Regulatel)
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Dialogue on Policy Regulation (ECLAC)
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Building cooperation between Europe and Latin
America on standardization topics and learning
along the way
Specific context
Dialogue on Standardization (ETSI)
http//www.etsi.org/etsi_galaxy/worldwide/_at_LIS/hom
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How we tailored the Dialogue on Standards

• Philosophy
• Open Standards are key to enable the development
  of ICT services and applications that help
  bridge the digital divide
• Objectives
• Increase awareness of the EU standardization
  system
• Increase ETSI visibility and standards adoption
  in LA
• Increase bilateral work flow (incl. membership
  when relevant)
• Means
• 3,8 million euros (2003-2006)
• ETSI contribution indirect i.e. in kind

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Year 1 building awareness for ETSI standards,
ways (specifics), and services
And reconciling an industrial logic (standards
making) with development oriented objectives
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We got industry on board

• Amid much worthy talk about bridging the
  Digital Divide, technology firms have realized
  that fostering the adoption of ICT in the
  developing world would not just benefit locals
  but is in vendors best interest as well

The Economist, March 13, 2004
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The toolbox

• Trade shows
• ETSI Village of Connectivity in Futurecom (Br),
  Expocomm (Mx)
• Workshops/road shows (liaison w/regional
  partners)
• DVB, mobile comms, ETSI/3GPP generic
• CITEL meetings
• COM-CITEL, PCC I II
• Linking with sub-regional and national
  organizations
• Policy Mercosur, Andean
• Technology CPqD, IPT, CONACYT
• Literature, white papers
• Press, etc

Always in liaison with ETSI Members and partners
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Year 1 wake up call Latin American countries
do produce ICT standards

• So long the split standards makers/standards
  takers
• Latin America, China
• The public sector is at the forefront
• ICT for economic development-software, political
  agendas
• A usage-driven standardization model
• Services and applications first gt
  Interoperability is the keyword
• Straight to the top
• No legacy of standards making in the lower
  layers
• A key topic for a SDO the all open source model
• Brazil the most radical country

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Setting the scene
HERE
Interoperability profiles (for e-policies apps)
Middleware/web services
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Why e-gov issues bring about key topics for
ETSI

• Usage driven standardization ( shopping for
  standards )
• Interfaces/components (ex ante/ex post)
• Engineering interoperability to match various
  needs
• Middleware, web services
• IDABC, European Interoperability Framework,
  Revision Directive 98/34 ? the key question of
  open standards

Not a clash of culture but an obvious need to
share experience, know how and expectations
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_at_METIS A Dialogue between EU and Latin
AmericaInteroperability profilers

• Objectives
• Create a think tank on specifications and
  interoperability profiles for e-policies
  applications (both policy and technology)
• Enable the development of joint deliverables
  (strategic and/or technical).
• Ways and means
• ETSI role will be to enable/be a focal point
• _at_LIS Dialogue on Standards (seed money)
• Two pronged approach
• Enable bilateral relations between EU and LA
  organizations
• Foster multi-lateral cooperation for the joint
  development of interoperability profiles

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Who is in (so far)

• European side
• ETSI, W3C, EC (including IDABC), CEN/ISSS, INRIA,
  National Administrations, ObjectWeb,
  Franhofer/FOKUS, OSA/Parlay.
• Latin America
• Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico (policy makers
  and technology strategists)
• This is a start
• OECD, UN/CEFACT, other LA countries and
  organizations

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During those 2 days

• Understand each others wish list/worry list ,
  core competence and value added
• Specify areas for cooperation explore methods
• Identify potential sources of funding (EU
  programmes, international funding organizations,
  private sector)
• Draft a roadmap for the Europe/Latin America
  dialogue on Interoperability profiles

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Dialogue (d i-alog)A conversation between
two or more persons. For a successful dialogue,
the partners must achieve a workable balance of
contributions A successful dialogue includes
mutually interesting connections between the
speakers or things that the speakers know
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• Thank you
• margot.dor_at_etsi.org