[bestbits] IGF 2015 - roundtable on spectrum allocations

[Carlos Afonso]

[apologies for possible duplications]

IGF 2015 – Roundtable 188
Spectrum allocations: challenges & opportunities at the edge
When: November 10th, 11:00 - 12:30 (*)
Where: IGF Workshop Room 1

The organization should enable facilities for remote participation for
those who cannot go to João Pessoa. The roundtable is co-organized by
Nupef Institute and CGI.br.

What are the topics of this dialogue on the subject? Recent advances in
digital radio technologies and the transition (already carried out or
soon to take place depending on the country) to digital TV open
significant opportunities for local governments, local entrepreneurs,
communities and movements to create innovative applications at the edge
of the network. Of special interest to our dialogue are the following
topics:

- Monitoring of real/effective use of spectrum at the local level;

- Opportunities and challenges dervied from of the global transition to
digital TV, in relation to community use of spectrum in the VHF/UHF
bands relocated or released by this transition;

- Regulatory and legislative processes that can affect various forms
of spectrum use (light licensing, shared spectrum, secondary use)
regarding local entrepreneurs, communities and local governments, in
light of recent advances in cognitive radio technologies.

The table will be open to different points of view related to these
matters. We will minimize the initial presentations to spare more time
for dialogue. We will have up to six initial presentations of no more
than seven minutes each:

- A representative of academia (Dr. Catherine Middleton, Ryerson
University, Canada)
- Up to three representatives of regulatory agencies (to be confirmed)
- A representative of civil society (Professor Adriano Belisario, Brazil)
- A representative of the business sector with a vision of local
services (Steve Song, Village Telco, South Africa / USA)

The moderator will be Maximiliano Martinhão, from the Brazil's Ministry
of Communications and an expert in wireless technologies, who will make
a brief preamble. The total number of presentations should not go beyond
45 minutes, leaving 45 minutes for dialogue between attendees.

Participation of members of regulatory agencies may be difficult by the
fact that the ITU has already started (on Nov.02) the World
Radiocommunication Conference, which will last for almost a month. We
are trying our best to minimize this problem.

Fraternal regards
Carlos A. Afonso
rapporteur
Nupef -- www.nupef.org.br

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(*) Note on Brazilian summer time

Since October 19th, 2015, Brazil's official time for Southern,
Southeastern and Center-West states is summer time -- clocks have
advanced one hour. This *does not* apply to Norhteastern and Northern
states, like Paraiba. So, now when it is 12:00 noon in Brasilia, it is
11:00 AM in João Pessoa.

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Carlos A. Afonso
Instituto Nupef - https://nupef.org.br
CGI.br - http://cgi.br

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