ISO Focus - February 2005

IT: Success and progress

ISO Focus, February 2005

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“Companies that embrace standards that have been globally adopted and reflect world-wide consensus are in the best position to succeed because they are able to create world-class products based on high-quality standards," says Craig R. Barrett, chairman and chief executive officer of Intel, the world-leading semiconductor technology company.

Barrett is the subject of an exclusive interview in the February issue of ISO Focus on the success and progress of IT standards together with concrete examples illustrating their impact and benefits.

Comment

Scott Jameson, Chair, ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology
Serving an expanding customer base

Guest View

Craig R. Barrett
Intel, Chief Executive Officer

"Intel seeks to conform to international standards to promote product harmonization and to facilitate trade"
See also our press release: Intel CEO on the need for International Standards

Main Focus

IT: Success and progress

• World Summit on the Information Society and International Standards for ICTs
• STEP: Growing capabilities in the global market
• Digital audio and video for all
• Being prepared to tackle threats to your business
• Global harmonization in ICT standardization
• Data semantics and metadata standards
• Automatic identification and data capture technologies
• Huge potential user base for ISO/IEC 90003
• Collaboration for the common good: Ecma and ISO a well matched pair of actors
• UNIFI, the ISO standard for all future financial messages
• ISO guidelines for healthcare facilities offer benefits of mobile wireless technology  

Developments and initiatives  

• ISO Networking Conference

New this month

• Details released of 18-month ISO 14001:2004 transition plan
• ISO/IEC Guide 74 for designing symbols that get the right message across to consumers worldwide

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