Geopolitics of ICT Standardisation: Focus on India

On 27 May 2024, StandICT.eu will host a Webinar, in coordination with IEC, to get an insight into India's standardisation strategies and activities in general, followed by a closer look at its activities in electrotechnology and ICT. Based on this background, we first discuss the opportunities and challenges India, and its actors face in international standardisation. Then, we focus on elaborating the implications for the EU before we try to identify opportunities for collaboration and joining forces for reciprocal benefits and address global challenges.

Background

China is already a well-established and strong actor in international standardisation, particularly in ICT, while India is at an earlier stage. However, India's activities in science and technology, again mainly focused on ICT, are significantly rising, measured by the number of scientific publications and patent applications. Knowing this, it is imperative to better understand the advancements being made in India to not only enhance knowledge on the activities happening in country itself, but to capitalise on opportunities for synergy and collaboration, while developing a stronger idea of what is being done in Asia regarding ICT standardisation.

 Agenda

 - Intro into standardisation and geopolitics with a focus on technological sovereignty, 
Knut Blind (Fraunhofer ISI & TU Berlin)

- India's Standardisation Strategies and Activities in a Global Context, Anupam Kaul, Independent strategic adviser on Quality & Standards

- Opportunities and Challenges for the Cooperation of EU and India in Standardisation, Dinesh Chand Sharma (Seconded European Standardisation Expert in India) Director – Standardisation & Public Policy

- India's strategies and activities in electrotechnical standardisation, Mr. Anupam Agrawal, ICT expert, Member IEC Governance Review and Audit Committee, Tata Consultancy Services.  

- Q&A

- Discussion

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Speaker Bios

Dinesh Chand Sharma

Since 2012, Mr. Dinesh Sharma has been associated with European Standardisation Project, SESEI as Director – Standards and Public Policy. In this role, Mr. Sharma acts as the focal point in India representing European Standards Organizations (ETSI, CEN, CENELEC), European Commission (EC) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Mr Sharma’s current role as SESEI focuses around various sectors/topics falling under the domain of Digitalization, Green & Clean Energy and many other topics of mutual interest to India and EU. Prior to this, Mr. Sharma worked with Ericsson for 15 years, with last profile as “Director – Regulatory Affairs & Industry Relation”.

Anupam Kaul

Mr. Anupam Kaul  is an independent strategic adviser on Quality & Standards, focusing mainly on compliances to technical regulations and leveraging standards as competitive tools in trade. In his previous role he led the standards, quality management, laboratory management, risk management and quality in governance initiatives of the Confederation of Indian Industry till December 2020. He played a key role in conceptualising and developing the Indian National Strategy for Standardisation. He chairs two important standards committees on Quality management, and services fundamentals at the Bureau of Indian Standards. He represents India on several ISO committees and was instrumental in development of important ISO standards including ISO 9004 and ISO 37500. Recognised as one of the leading policy experts on standards, conformity assessment and technical regulations in India, he has represented industry in government-to-government dialogue on standards and conformance cooperation and regulatory issues on several bilateral dialogues including USA and Germany.