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April 5, 2019

Standards cooperation is key to making AI and smart cities a reality

Every year, a dozen organizations come together to focus on global standards collaboration in the area of information and communication technology. This year’s meeting, GSC-22, was held in […]
April 3, 2019

Professional farmer organizations: new guidelines for a well-fed world

Providing nutritious food for one in every nine people who are going hungry today means rethinking how we grow, share and consume food. With pressures such […]
April 1, 2019

The ISO International Standard that keeps us all up to date

Today’s sophisticated and ever-changing technologies have made the world smaller and opened up new ways of communicating. The publication of a revised International Standard ensures that […]
April 1, 2019

ISO 18091 standard brings sustainable development to local government

With a mandate to manage everything from transport to sewerage, to public lighting and civil protection, it’s no wonder citizens expect a lot from their local […]
March 25, 2019

A Standard for Water Reuse brings Hope for Water Scarcity

By 2030, water scarcity will have displaced between 24 and 700 million people, according to UN Water, the United Nations coordinating body on water issues. World Water Day is focusing […]
March 21, 2019

New ISO standard puts humans at the centre of business

Gone are the days when the workplace was built around a fairly straightforward structure, consisting of employer, employee, customer. The winds of technological change may be […]
March 15, 2019

ISO’s collaboration with the World Health Organization is working to change things.

Good health should be a universal human right, but all too often it is dictated by social and geographical circumstances. Global health and well-being are the […]
March 15, 2019

ISO is tackling the problem with standards for single-use syringes and a set of requirements to prevent unintentional needle-stick injuries.

A 2014 study sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), which focused on the most recent available data, estimated that in 2010 up to 1.7 million people […]
March 12, 2019

Just for the record

Here’s a nice problem to have: in many countries, patient care is becoming more complex because we’re generally living longer and surviving illnesses that would have […]