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Highlights of ITU-T activity under Directorship of Malcolm JOHNSON

• Reversed decline of previous years - ITU-T membership has continued to grow in 2013, for the third consecutive year.
• 60% increase in ITU-T Recommendations produced annually.
• Introduction of Bridging the Standardization Gap (BSG) forums, beginning in Kigali, Rwanda, October 2007, to highlight main topics in ITU-T and encourage greater participation from developing countries.
•  41 new countries have participated in ITU-T work since 2007.
• BSG fund introduced in August 2007 - CHF 334,070 to fund actions aiming to increase the participation of developing countries.
• Free downloading of ITU-T Recommendations was recommended to Council-07. Sales of copies were running at around 5000 a year, now downloads are over 2 million copies a year - many to developing countries.
• Introduction of Kaleidoscope academic conferences in 2008 to encourage greater involvement of students and researchers in the work of ITU-T. Since then over 70 universities have forged an association with ITU-T.
• Academia membership category has seen 42 universities join ITU-T since the category’s launch in 2011.
• Establishment of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on Standards Education.
• Adoption of common patent policy and related guidelines with ISO and IEC.
• Patent roundtable bringing key players together to forge solution to ongoing disputes over Standards Essential Patents. Continuation of the process through the TSB Director’s Ad-Hoc Group on IPR.
• Introduction of Chief Technology Officer's Group to ensure voices of high-level industry executives heard in the standardization process.
• Introduction of Technology Watch, a means to capture standardization needs in emerging technologies.
• Increased focus on impact of ICTs on environment, and accessibility of ICTs for persons with disabilities.
• Introduction of series of climate change Symposia and Green Standards Weeks. 
• Stopped production of paper copies of ITU Recommendations (calculated to save 106 million tones of CO2 annually).
• Initiation of the Conformity and Interoperability programme.
• Primetime Emmy award for Recommendation ITU-T H.264 (MPEG-4) received in Hollywood 23 August 2008 on behalf of ITU, ISO and IEC.
• Successor to ITU-T H.264 (ITU-T H.265) approved 13 April 2013.
• Other Recommendation highlights include key standards for:
• Universal charging solutions
• Methodologies to assess the environmental impact of ICTs
• Standards for electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
• Standards for the trusted exchange of cybersecurity information (CYBEX) (ITU-T X.1500 series)
• Key standards for optical networking and access networks (ITU-T G. series)
• Standards for Smart Grid (ITU-T G.9955 and ITU-T G.9956)
• Standards for cloud computing (ITU-T Y.3501, ITU-T Y.3510 and ITU-T Y.3520)
• Increased number of workshops - record number of 45 workshops in 2012.
• Closer collaboration with IETF through high-level management meetings and the first-ever joint ITU-T/IETF group and approval of MPLS-TP Recommendation. 
• Closer collaboration with IEEE on workshops and Kaleidoscope.
• Initiation of the Collaboration on Intelligent Transport Systems.
• Increase of meetings with remote participation: 100 meetings held in 2008 upto 600 in 2012.
• Introduction of direct document posting of contributions to study groups.
• Introduction of online database of international numbering resources.
• Introduction of online Operational Bulletin in 6 languages.
• Introduction of mentoring system and welcome briefings for new delegates.
• Reorganisation of ITU-T's secretariat the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) to place greater resources on projects such as bridging the standardization gap.
• Implementation of paperless policy in ITU - the number of sheets of paper used annually has dropped from 600k to 100k.
• Introduced teleworking in TSB.
• Improved gender balance of professional staff rom 20% to 41% women.
• Ratio of G/P staff reduced from 2:1 to less than 1:1.
• Increased activities 3 fold whilst maintaining same budget.
• WTSA-12
• Five preparatory meetings for WTSA/WCIT: Argentina for Americas; South Africa for Africa; Australia for Asia Pacific; Uzbekistan for CIS countries; and Egypt for Arab States.
• Initiated new work on e-health, software-defined networking (SDN) and e-waste.
• WTSA-12 established a new Review Committee as a forum with the time to discuss issues seriously and come up with suggestions on how ITU-T, as the only truly global ICT standards body, can best ensure that it remains the place to come to develop international standards.
• ITU standards (ITU-T Recommendations) now to be accompanied by implementation guidelines.
• Resolution inviting ITU Member States to refrain from taking any unilateral and/or discriminatory actions that could impede access to the Internet.
• Six new Resolutions:
• Software defined networking (Res. 77)
• e-Health (Res. 78)
• e-Waste (Res. 79)
• Acknowledging contributions from academia (Res. 80)
• Strengthening collaboration (Res. 81)
• Strategic and structural review (Res. 82)
• Revision of seven of the A series Recommendations that guide ITU-T’s work.
• WTSA-08 1sts
• 1st time chaired by a woman: Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Director-General, South African Ministry of Communications
• 1st time in Africa
• 1st time preceded by Global Standards Symposium
• 1st time academia invited
• 1st time side events held: accessibility; climate change; and cybersecurity
• 1st time associated exhibition of new technologies
• 1st substantial restructuring of the Sector
• 1st time term limits on chairmanships applied: Virtually complete new team of chairmen and vice-chairmen including 22 from developing countries
• Unprecedented media coverage: Local and international: including 3 TV interviews, 3 radio interviews, and numerous printed articles and web coverage Strengthened Role as pre-eminent global ICT standards body.
• Key Resolutions on:
• Human exposure to electromagnetic fields - Resolution 72 - Measurement concerns related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields
• Encouraging the deployment of IPv6 Resolution 64 - IP address allocation and encouraging the deployment of IPv6
• Computer Incident Response Teams Resolution 58 - Encourage the creation of national Computer Incident Response Teams, particularly for developing countries
• ICTs and climate change Resolution 73 - Information and communications technologies and climate change
• Accessibility to ICTs for persons with disabilities Resolution 70 - Telecommunication/ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities
• Conformance and interoperability testing, a possible future ITU Mark Resolution 76 - Studies related to conformance and interoperability testing, assistance to developing countries, and a possible future ITU mark programme
• Encouraging academic participation  Resolution 71 - Admission of academia, universities and their associated research establishments to participate in the work of ITU-T
• Sector members from developing countries  Resolution 74 - Admission of Sector Members from developing countries in the work of ITU-T
• Nomadic telecommunication services and applications  Resolution 63 - Studies regarding nomadic telecommunication services and applications