CEN, CENELEC Join Forces on ICT Standards
December 23, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) will begin collaborating on their future standards work in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT), according to a Dec. 11 announcement.
This initiative will combine the ongoing efforts that both organizations have in the fast-moving ICT domain - CEN for such applications as e-business, e-health and e-government, and CENELEC for IT hardware and systems issues, such as those associated with SmartHouse.
With hundreds of industry consortia at the global level, technology standards are often fragmented. This environment can be perplexing for stakeholders, and the resulting specifications may not always reflect European needs.
To increase clarity and ensure European needs are met, CEN members had a long-term strategic group - the CEN/ISSS Forum - whose chair reports to a technical board, which sets CEN technical standards strategy.
With converging technologies in this domain, plus an increasing interest to see collaboration with consortia, CENELEC is now joining this forum, which becomes the CEN/CENELEC ICT Forum as of Jan. 1, 2009.
The new forum's role will remain advisory, but the collaborative effort will ensure greater transparency and better handling of European standards needs.
Source: European Committee for Standardization.