ADCPS held a policy roundtable on the topic of “Exerting Impact and Influence on the Global Standardization Arena“.
Rationale:
- Standards are increasingly being used as important and sometimes leading elements of policy and regulation.
- In the digital technologies area, policy and regulation, and therefore standards as well, have a much greater international flavour on account of the basic nature of the Internet
- A nation that is unable to exert adequate influence on the international arena will face challenges in having its fair say and its problems addressed in modern technology deployment and regulatory regimes such as international data flows, privacy, cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
- The current scenario is one where powerful nations prefer to give higher importance to “multistakeholder” forums while also supporting the traditional multilateral forums.
- Nations aspiring to exert significant influence of the international standards arena and thereby on the international technology deployment and regulatory stage will have to be able to use all of their national capabilities and not only their governmental strengths to be effective and influential players.
Key Participants:
Chandan Bahl – DDG (International Relations) and Scientist G at the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Reena Garg – Head Electronics & IT standardization and Scientist G at the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Vimal Mahendru – IEC Vice President and Chair of the Standardization Management Board (SMB) in Geneva
Anupam Agrawal -IEC Governance Review & Audit Committee and Chair of the Digital Standards Coordination Committee at the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Samiran Gupta – Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director for APAC at ICANN
- Prof. S.K. Jha – ADCPS IIT Bombay
- Prof. Anjali Sharma – ADCPS IIT Bombay
- Prof. Anupam Guha – ADCPS IIT Bombay
- Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya – CS&E IIT Bombay
- Prof. Ravi Sinha – Civil Engineering IIT Bombay
- Prof. Rahul Sapkal – ADCPS IIT Bombay
- Prof. Ajay Deshpande – ADCPS IIT Bombay