The ’China-EU IT Standards Research Partnership’, a European FP7-project, will hold its final workshop on 15 February, at the CEN/CENELEC meeting centre in Brussels.

The People’s Republic of China has become increasingly active in information technology standards. This raises important issues for China about standardisation processes and technology promotion policy, with significant consequences for the European economy and global ICT market.

The workshop will explore the implications of the project’s findings for standardisation and innovation strategies in China and Europe (and beyond). The workshop will also discuss the wider ramifications of the increasing role China is playing in international information and communication technology standardisation.

The workshop will feature both presentations by project members and by invited external experts, including:

Reinhard Scholl (Deputy Director; ITU-T TSB),
Carter Eltzroth (Legal Director; DVB project),
Wei Feng (Director Industry Standards; Huawei)
Mattias Ganslandt (Director; Centre for European Law and Economics)

Joćo da Silva (former Director - Network and Communication Technologies, DG-INFSO, European Commission) will moderate a panel discussion, tentatively entitled ’EU-China: the next 10 years - issues and opportunities in ICT standardisation’

Places at the workshop will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis. To attend please contact Eileen Mothersole at e.mothersole@ed.ac.uk.

For further information, visit the China-EU IT Standards Research Partnership website.