ISO Focus - November 2008

e-standardization

ISO Focus, November 2008

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Can you imagine working without an e-mail account or access to the Internet? Today it has become almost impossible for a business to succeed without an adequate electronic infrastructure.

Indeed, information and communication technology have brought the world closer together and redefined the way we work, opening up in the process a new world of opportunity.

Conscious of this potential, ISO has increasingly moved in the direction of e-standardization. The November issue of ISO Focus, explores the array of e-tools already available to the standardization community, and how they add value to both users and developers of standards.

E-standardization has indeed many advantages. By allowing experts from around the world to collaborate in real time, it can shorten the standards development time. E-tools such as the Global Directory, Livelink, e-balloting and document management applications help save resources, and thus empower and facilitate the participation of all members, be they large or small, anywhere in the world.

This thought-provoking issue of ISO Focus not only reviews the inventory of what has been accomplished, and where it can take us, but looks farther ahead to the developments of what may come, and the revolutionizing impact technology may still bring.

Comment

Elio Bianchi
Chair ISO/ITSIG and Operating Director, UNI
A new way of working

Guest View

Markus J. Reigl
Head of Corporate Standardization at Siemens AG

“ITSIG has been actively introducing tools to support collaborative work amongst the experts engaged in the standards development process.”

Main Focus

e-standardization

• The “nuts and bolts” of ISO’s collaborative IT applications
• Strengthening IT expertise in developing countries
• The ITSIG/XML authoring and metadata project
• Zooming in on the ISO Concept database
• In sight – Value-added information services
• Connecting standards
• Standards to go – A powerful format for mobile workers
• Re-engineering the ISO standards development process
• The language of content-creating communities
• Bringing the virtual into the formal
• Workflow management – UNI’s success story

Development and Initiatives

• Conference on e-business standards
• Standardization course for managers
• Protecting standards
• Future energy management standard

New on the shelf

• New ISO 9000 video
• Release of ISO Survey 2007
• New standard helps travellers plan their trip
• New electronic version of Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement

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