Data is of high value to building applications and services based on future computing. This Supplement provides the standardization roadmap for data in the telecommunication sector including not only big data but also data usage, processing, analysing, exchanging, sharing and data quality assessment in terms of data handling. It addresses the following subjects:

− landscape of data handling from an ITU-T perspective;

− conceptual model of big data ecosystems;

− related technical areas of big data and data handling;

− data activities in standards development organizations (SDOs);

− standardization gap analysis.