Take an Open Stand! As an OpenStand Advocate, you will join a growing community of list of OpenStand Advocates dedicated to applying time-tested values in standards and technology development. OpenStand Advocates serve as catalysts within the open development community, helping ensure the OpenStand Principles are leveraged in global dialog, debate, collaborative problem solving and policy […]
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 […]
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. […]
Upholding intellectual property laws in the information age, while also maintaining openness, and preserving commerce requires specific policy initiatives. The Internet is designed to inspire the free flow of ideas and concepts and open collaboration.. It was built to foster research and innovation with participation of the global community. Unfortunately, community members abuse that freedom, […]
This week marks the celebration of the 2013 World Standards Week. World Standards Week is dedicated to raising global awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in helping meet the needs of business, industry, government and consumers worldwide. The week includes World Standards Day on October […]