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WHO-ITU consultation on the Making Listening Safe initiative
– Standards –
Simão Campos
Counsellor, ITU-T Study Group 16
"Multimedia"
Geneva, 6-7 March 2017
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About ITU
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ITU is the specialized agency of the UN for telecommunications and ICTs …
… and turned 150 years in 2015
Theme for all year celebrations: “Telecommunications and ICTs: drivers of innovation”
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ITU-T Telecom Standardization
ITU-D Telecom Development
ITU-R Radiocommunication
ITU’s three Sectors: Radiocommunication, Standards and Development
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Celebrated 60 years of CCITT / ITU-T in 2016!
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ITU: a unique Membership 193 Member States
670+ companies Business associations International organizations NGOs
115 universities and research
establishments
Part of the UN family: WHO, WMO, UNESCO, WIPO, …
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A sample of ITU private sector members
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ITU collaborates with relevant standards development organizations
40+ formal partnerships
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A sample of ITU standardization areas
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Impact of standards
BSI study on The Economic Contribution of Standards to the UK Economy (June 2015)
• Use of standards improves client-supplier relationship through improved confidence
• Most productive companies are those heavily deploying standards
• Standards encouraged innovation through the diffusion of new knowledge
• standards facilitate compliance with regulations (e.g. health and safety legislation)
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Benefits of global standards
• Known, trusted processes
• Pre-clearances
–WTO technical barriers to trade (TBT)
–European Commission
–National administrations
• Facilitates adoption in national initiatives
–Personal Connected Health programmes in Norway and Sweden
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Standardization on safe listening • Collaboration between WHO and ITU
– Capitalize on strengths of each organization
– Collaboration with other stakeholders
• October 2015
– WHO and ITU stakeholders meeting – develop an integrative standard.
– ITU Study Group 16 meeting – work item launched
• June 2016: gap analysis discussed at the ITU Workshop
– Confirmation of overall findings; initial steps
• July 2016: WHO Stakeholders meeting on prevention of deafness and hearing loss
• March 2017 – this meeting
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Suggested action from gap analysis (1/2)
• Safe listening devices inform user about exposure
– Uses global standards for measurements using sound level, listening period and signal energy.
– Hourly, daily and a weekly safe listening dose based on listening period, sound level and energy
– Display the remaining safe listening time if the user carries on listening at the current level.
• PMPs adapt listening levels according to the transducer used.
• PMPs suggest safe listening practices.
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Suggested action from gap analysis (2/2)
• PMP could provide access to WHO’s information about risks
• Hearing tests integrated into PMPs for periodic hearing checks and detect beginning of hearing loss.
• Customizable thresholds for warnings accounting for actual listening configuration and user hearing capability.
• Clear labelling of products monitoring the dose or the peak levels.
• Different labels can be proposed for devices monitoring dosage and for those only levels.
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Follow up points
• Dosimetry is an essential element of safe listening
– Understanding of the assumptions and limitations of underlying models is important
– Practical, evolutionary approach
• Messaging: technical aspects defined in a standard
• Free availability is felt as important
– Publications
– WHO app
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Conclusion
• Fruitful collaboration between WHO and ITU
–Coordination with other stakeholders has been essential
• Important milestones reviewed
• Expect progress in experts discussions at this meeting
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Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto
Simão joined the secretariat of the ITU Standardization Sector in 2002, and is the Counsellor for ITU-T Study Group 16 (for standardization work on multimedia, including media coding, accessibility, e-health, IPTV and digital signage). He has a long experience in standardization, having started with voice compression standards in 1989. Prior to joining ITU, Simão was a Scientist at COMSAT Labs in the USA and a researcher at CPqD, a telecom research center in Brazil.
A Senior Member of the IEEE, Simão authored several academic papers and position papers, served in the review committee of several IEEE-sponsored conferences, and organized the first ITU Kaleidoscope Conference.