We are approaching the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Over the past decades, the Internet has become much more powerful, interactive and intertwined with our lives, and there are now billions of people connected to the internet. However, in many countries the Internet access is tightly controlled and monitored. It is also estimated […]
Last October marked a year and a half after the OpenStand Principles were agreed upon by the IAB, IEEE Standards Assocation, the Internet Society and the W3C. The IAB revisits their commitment to the OpenStand Principles with a statement, laid out in full below. Statement from the IAB: The Internet depends upon standards developed in […]
In a day and age where trust is critical, open innovation and open technology standards development principles are increasingly hailed as playing a critical role in driving market-driven innovation. In truth, this isn’t anything new. In fact, OpenStand principles have been effectively used for decades and have served as the foundational principles upon which the […]
#TheOpenAgenda was launched last September at Campus Party Europe in London, with the goal of accelerating the adoption of open standards and ethos across three key areas – web, data and innovation. The first phase of the campaign brings together leading thinkers to focus on the future of the World Wide Web. Online and offline […]
Incorporating open standards in cloud computing will accelerate the pace of technical innovation in our increasingly interconnected world. They will also help unlock opportunities for startups and large companies, as well as the individuals they serve, by offering affordable, fundamental building blocks that will speed time-to-market, fuel performance, drive interoperability, scalability and more.In a recent […]
Karen Bartleson is the Senior Director of Community at Synopsys and the President of IEEE Standards Association. Through her roles at Synopys and at IEEE-SA, Bartleson has the opportunity to meet with other leaders who share OpenStand’s goal of creating a global community of open innovation. She is a huge advocate for the OpenStand movement. […]
Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer of the Internet Society wrote in a blog post on CircleID asserting that nothing on the Internet or the Web happens without the infrastructure of standards and making a case for the continued need for open standards development. According to Daigle, “Allowing the community of Internet technology developers and […]