{"title":"Small data and sustainable development — Individuals at the center of data-driven societies","authors":"M. Thinyane","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246991","url":null,"abstract":"At the centre of data-driven societies are individuals and end-users who not only generate data, but also benefit from the outcomes of the data-driven development. Extensive work has been undertaken to understand and explore the challenges and potential impact of data, in particular Big Data, for the private as well as the public sectors. Similarly work has been undertaken within the domains of Personal Informatics and life-logging, which has investigated the role of data, and specifically personal physical activity and health data towards improving the wellbeing of individuals. In this research we investigate the engagement of individuals in the use of data towards the achievement of the sustainable development imperatives as articulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The paper presents: the awareness levels of the participants with regards to the Sustainable Development Goals; their attitudes and perceptions around monitoring of social indicators; key considerations associated with data ownership, privacy and confidentiality of data, as well as sharing of data within the data ecosystem. The paper subsequently discusses how these finding could inform the implementation of small data tools to support the active engagement of individuals in data-driven societies.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114883813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignacio Marcovecchio, M. Thinyane, Elsa Estevez, P. Fillottrani
{"title":"Capability maturity models towards improved quality of the sustainable development goals indicators data","authors":"Ignacio Marcovecchio, M. Thinyane, Elsa Estevez, P. Fillottrani","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246989","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands coping with the data revolution for sustainable development: the integration of new and traditional data to produce high-quality information that is detailed, timely, and relevant for multiple purposes and to a variety of users. The quality of this information, defined by its completeness, uniqueness, timeliness, validity, accuracy, and consistency, is crucial for appropriate decision making; which leads to improvements in advancing national development imperatives for reaching the goals and targets of the sustainable development agenda. In this paper, we posit that the more mature the organizations within the national data ecosystems are, the higher the quality of data that they produce. The paper motivates for the adoption and mainstreaming of organizational Capability Maturity Models within the SGDs activities. It also presents the preliminary formulation of a multidimensional prescriptive Capability Maturity Model to assess and improve the maturity of organizations within national data ecosystems and, therefore, the effective monitoring of the progress on the SDG targets through the production of better quality indicators data. Furthermore, the paper provides recommendation towards addressing the challenges within the increasingly data-driven domain of social indicators monitoring.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115143426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data-driven future wireless communication","authors":"Jian-hua Zhang","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246840","url":null,"abstract":"Besides supporting the traditional requirement of large-area coverage and high-data rate transmission services, IMT-2020 defined by ITU-R is also expected to supply smart and reliable interconnection among humans and things. Thus, the vision of IMT-2020 presents the convergence of wireless communication, Internet, Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-type communication (MTC), which together brings an explosive increase to traffic volume and stimulates wireless communication to the time of big data. Obviously, such vision poses big challenges to 5G and future wireless communication. This keynote speech discusses the application of computer science into future wireless communication, especially data mining techniques to accelerate the wireless research and development. Firstly, the big data tendency of wireless communication is presented and the possible ways to combine them are pointed out. In particular, a three-level structure of a wireless system is defined in order to classify the propagation environments, which will bring the complex combination into simplicity. Considering these three levels, there are different tasks like service prediction and pushing, self-organized networking, self-adapting large-scale fading modeling and so on, which can be abstracted into problems like regression, classification, clustering, etc. Since there are many powerful algorithms in the data mining domain to accomplish them, we can expect a data-driven future wireless communication to make our lives and society convenient.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual property licensing tensions in incorporating open source into formal standard setting context — The case of Apache V.2 in ETSI as a start","authors":"Jingze Li","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246986","url":null,"abstract":"Open Source Software is playing an increasing role in ICT standardizations on future technologies such as 5G and Internet of Things. Formal standard settings organizations (SSOs) are exploring ways to incorporate open source approach. This paper depicts the difference between open source licenses and the current SSOs legal framework in dealing with intellectual property rights, mainly the FRAND license commitment for patented technologies and the distribution for copyrighted software in specifications. Such difference might cause tensions in the two scenarios of interactions between SSO standards and open source: the implementation phase and the standardization activity phase. Some of the tensions are currently hypothetical. However, one recent and concrete example from ETSI, hosting an open source project under Apache v.2, might shed light on how SSOs can (cannot) avoid tensions by making changes to the governing framework.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128005054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal challenges for data-driven society","authors":"L. Duo","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246982","url":null,"abstract":"A legal system should bring to society expectations of stability, and should balance rights and obligations. But the emergence of revolutionary new technologies can change and even break the current order and balance. Big data applied to the everyday life of people is such a technology; it is deemed to create a brand new social paradigm bringing about entirely different perspectives in people's observations of the world. This poses a challenge to the existing legal system, such as how to balance the utilization of big data and the security of data resources, and the exploitation of the data available and the protection of personal privacy. Other challenges concern how to determine the ownership of data, and how to determine the rights and obligations in exchange of data. This paper mainly discusses the changes that big data is bringing to society and the legal challenges that the data-driven society will be confronted with. It puts forward suggestions regarding the development and security of big data industry, protection of personal privacy through the establishment of commercial rules for big data and through international coordination mediated by international organizations.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125648370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Sun, Yulong Zou, Mujun Qian, Jia Zhu, Quanquan Wang
{"title":"Exploiting multi-radio cooperation in heterogeneous wireless networks for absolute security against eavesdropping","authors":"Ming Sun, Yulong Zou, Mujun Qian, Jia Zhu, Quanquan Wang","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8247003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8247003","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous wireless communication scenario, which is comprised of a source (S) and a destination (D) in the presence of an eavesdropper (E), each equipped with multiple heterogeneous radio access interfaces. In order to enhance the transmission security against eavesdropping, we propose a multi-radio cooperation (MRC) scheme, where the multiple radio interfaces at S are simultaneously utilized to transmit a source signal to D along with a weight design. For the convenience of performance comparisons, the conventional multi-radio switch (MRS) scheme is also considered as a benchmark scheme, in which only the single “best” radio interface is selected at S to transmit the source signal. We evaluate the secrecy capacity and intercept probability (IP) of conventional MRS and proposed MRC schemes over Rayleigh fading channels. It is proved that the proposed MRC scheme can achieve an absolute security with zero IP, which is further validated through Monte-Carlo simulations. Numerical results show that the proposed MRC scheme performs better than conventional MRS scheme in terms of their secrecy capacity and IP.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"348 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Nzaramba, Rene Kabagamba, A. Garba, Kate Chandler
{"title":"Drone readiness index","authors":"Samuel Nzaramba, Rene Kabagamba, A. Garba, Kate Chandler","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246995","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new model for evaluating the robustness of the ecosystem for drone projects in a given country, considering nine factors ranging from the regulatory framework to economic and social impact. The objective of this study is to provide a tool in the form of an index that can be used to gauge countries readiness for drone projects. Governments, NGOs as well as commercial drone companies can use the index to gain insights into the possibilities of drones for non-military use. Notable successful projects using drones were used as a benchmark to chart out the various components of the Drone Readiness Index (DRI). We first reviewed selected projects that have attempted to use drone aircrafts for non-military activities, using secondary data. We then quantify the elements of the drone ecosystem and present derivations of the proposed drone readiness index. To show applications and examples of the proposed drone readiness index, we compute the values of the drone readiness index for selected African countries. These values are further presented in a website[1].","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121422384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socio-economics and educational case study with cost-effective IOT campus by the use of wearable, tablet, cloud and open E-learning services","authors":"T. Veda, Yoshikazu Ikeda","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246994","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the authors show a case study reporting educational experiences in a Japanese university's digital campus supported by the cost-performance improvement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) including electronic devices and networks. The authors also report the use of wristband wearable devices to monitor walking and sleeping habits of a student and the influence on health consciousness. Considering education effectively on campus has become important in every country and area worldwide. In this regard, we have conducted a socio-economics case study with cost-effective ICT and Internet of Things (IoT) devices including tablet PC, wearable and e-learning services. In order to promote educational innovation regardless of economic and political status of each country, the standardization is urgent and important concerning education methods with advanced technologies. We propose ITU to study best practices in education in terms of network, devices, applications, contents and teaching methods. ITU should seek the quality of education methods including managing operational aspects like ISO 9001 Quality management and ISO/IEC 27001 Information security management. In this paper our case study consists of two parts, a deployment of large-scale tablet PCs and a successful improvement in student's Body Mass Index (BMI) implemented by wearable devices as a basic condition for study attitude.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134087503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Upul Jayasinghe, Abayomi Otebolaku, Tai-Won Um, G. Lee
{"title":"Data centric trust evaluation and prediction framework for IOT","authors":"Upul Jayasinghe, Abayomi Otebolaku, Tai-Won Um, G. Lee","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8246999","url":null,"abstract":"Application of trust principals in internet of things (IoT) has allowed to provide more trustworthy services among the corresponding stakeholders. The most common method of assessing trust in IoT applications is to estimate trust level of the end entities (entity-centric) relative to the trustor. In these systems, trust level of the data is assumed to be the same as the trust level of the data source. However, most of the IoT based systems are data centric and operate in dynamic environments, which need immediate actions without waiting for a trust report from end entities. We address this challenge by extending our previous proposals on trust establishment for entities based on their reputation, experience and knowledge, to trust estimation of data items [1-3]. First, we present a hybrid trust framework for evaluating both data trust and entity trust, which will be enhanced as a standardization for future data driven society. The modules including data trust metric extraction, data trust aggregation, evaluation and prediction are elaborated inside the proposed framework. Finally, a possible design model is described to implement the proposed ideas.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133906840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian Canovas-Carrasco, A. García-Sánchez, J. García-Haro
{"title":"The IEEE 1906.1 Standard: Nanocommunications as a new source of data","authors":"Sebastian Canovas-Carrasco, A. García-Sánchez, J. García-Haro","doi":"10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8247001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITU-WT.2017.8247001","url":null,"abstract":"Nanoscale communications is a new paradigm encompassing all those concerns related to the exchange of information among devices at the nanometer scale. A network infrastructure consisting of a huge amount of nano-devices is envisaged to ensure robust, reliable and coordinated data transmission. This will enable a plethora of forthcoming applications and services in many different research fields, such as personalized medicine, synthetic biology, environmental science or industry, which will lead to outstanding and unprecedented advances. The IEEE P1906.1 standard provides a conceptual and general framework to set the starting point for future developments in nanoscale communication networks. This paper reviews the latest IEEE P1906.1 recommendations, observing their main features when applied to the electromagnetic (EM) nanocommunication area. We contribute by identifying and discussing the principal shortcomings of the standard, to which further research efforts must be devoted. We also provide interesting guidelines for focusing the object of future investigations.","PeriodicalId":321403,"journal":{"name":"2017 ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a Data-Driven Society (ITU K)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134230349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}