Every day, online and offline, open standards benefit humanity. In our modern world, posting blog content, searching the web and sending/receiving mail has become second nature – and many of the underpinning technologies that support these tasks leverage open standards. To illustrate how this works in her life, Anna, the Community Manager at phpList, created the […]
OpenStand principles are applied to applications everyday. One example of this can be seen in a commonly used standard file format used by the print and digital design community, known as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). A member of the Libre Graphics Magazine community recently highlighted SVG as one of their favorite open standards because they […]
Many humanitarian organizations, from The World Bank to the International Aid Transparency Initiative, have integrated principles of open information into their mission and efforts. They believe that an investment in better, open information is an investment in better, open development.The World Bank works to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in the developing world. Open […]
OpenStand was formed to align standards development organizations and the open development community itself with a time-tested set of principles or values for open, collaborative, market-driven technology development. It is our hope that our supporters will carry those values into every-day life and apply them to collaboration, consensus-building, development, policy making, technology development and public […]
As we’ve discussed in our last two posts, OpenStand recently conducted a survey of the global open development community regarding the present and future state of open standards. For our third and final question, we wanted to get a sense of whether respondents feel the definition of open standards will change over time. A majority […]
As we mentioned in our last post, OpenStand celebrated its two-year anniversary on August 29. We recently surveyed supporters and the global open development community regarding the present and future state of open standards and open development. All survey responses can be found here. Our second survey question asked respondents to identify top threats and opportunities to open […]
On August 29th, OpenStand celebrated its two-year anniversary. A week earlier, we reached out to supporters and the global open development community with a simple, three question survey, hoping to gather thoughts and insights about the present and future state of open standards and open development.We received solid response, which you can review here. In […]
On 29 August 2012, IEEE, ISOC, W3C, IETF and IAB jointly affirmed the OpenStand Principles and launched the OpenStand website. The goal of OpenStand remains simple: to mobilize ongoing, global support for the application of open, market-driven principles in technology and standards development. Through the OpenStand paradigm, we encourage the development of market driven standards […]
Over the past two years, the OpenStand Principles and values have become an increasingly relevant, influential, unifying force in public discussion. We’ve created this handy infographic to summarize these principles, below. We encourage you to share this on your blog, website or within your circles of influence, to rally support for OpenStand! Please contact us […]
As we celebrate the two-year anniversary of OpenStand, we thought it was fitting to take a look at the ways open standards benefit individuals, companies, markets, industries, governments, nations — in essence, the world. We encourage supporters to share this infographic with their circles of influence and to rally support for the OpenStand Principles. Get the […]