ISO Focus - September 2007

Standards and the citizen: Contributing to society

ISO Focus, September 2007

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Standards make an enormous contribution to most aspects of our lives. Without standards, consider how difficult –or even dangerous – it would be to carry out ordinary, daily tasks.

The September 2007 ISO Focus issue, devoted to “Standards and the citizen: contributing to society” – the theme for World Standards Day 2007 – looks at the importance of International Standards in our everyday lives.  A portfolio of articles examines how International Standards open up markets, while bringing environmental protection, safety, security, health and access to information and knowledge.

What's more, Doris Leuthard, Swiss Minister of Economy, highlights the benefits of International Standards, particularly their positive effects on innovation. "Actually, international standards serve as a bridge between an invention and its practical application on an industrial basis. Standards serve as a positive stimulus for innovation. The spread of innovation through the application of standards takes on particular importance in the information society."

Read all about how standards contribute to society in the September 2007 issue of ISO Focus.

Comment

Jai Ok Kim
Chairperson of COPOLCO
From consumer to citizenship of the global village

Guest View

Doris Leuthard
Swiss Minister of Economy

"Standards make it possible to support technology transfers."

Main Focus

Standards and the citizen

• Protecting e-consumers
• Human-friendly everyday products
• Making buildings more accessible to all
• Accessible design for all citizens
• The quest for social responsibility
• Creating a safer world for consumers
• Symbols to help world citizens
• Is your food safe ?
• Medicine without borders
• The benefit of safe machines – From industry to leisure
• The role of information security protecting the consumer’s use of IT
• Societal security – ISO tackles a new field for standards
• Worldwide impact of biometric standards in personal authentication applications
• A tonne of carbon is always a tonne of carbon
• A government you can trust
• Management system standards can play greater role in better regulation

Developments and initiatives

• COPOLCO workshop in Brazil : Can consumers rely on fair trade claims ?

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