An Introduction to Formal Standardization and the Work on ICT Standardization in ISO/IEC – JTC1

Authors

  • Niels Madelung Chief consultant in Danish Standards and engaged in JTC1
  • Katrine Bergh Andersen Consultant for research in Danish Standards

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.121

Keywords:

Standardization, standards, ICT, standardization organizations, ISO/IEC JTC1, benefit from standards

Abstract

The purpose of this article is (a) to give the reader an introduction to formal standardization and (b) an overview of international standardization activities in the field of ICT.

In the first part of the article the introduction to formal standardization will be exemplified at a national level by the national Danish standardization organization (DS), at a European level by the European standardization organizations (CEN/CELENEC and ETSI) and at a global level by the international standardization organizations (ISO, IEC and ITU).

The second part of the article will provide the reader with an overview of the standards and ongoing standardization activities in JTC1 – the joint technical committee between ISO and IEC on ICT standardization. This paragraph will include a number of illustrative examples to give an in-depth impression of the work in the joint technical committee.

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Author Biographies

Niels Madelung, Chief consultant in Danish Standards and engaged in JTC1

Niels Madelung

Chief consultant

Niels Madelung is chief consultant at the Consulting Department at Danish Standards. He works with business development in the areas of service and product development, quality management, process optimization, risk management and business continuity.Niels is the author of the Danish book “Glidikkeibananskrællen” about risk management.

He is specialized in business and operational improvements, Lean Management, SixSigma (Yellow Belt), Quality Management, Risk Management, Business Continuity and he is an ISO standardization specialist with particular emphasis onISO 9001, ISO 26000, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, ISO 29100 and ISO 31000.

Niels is an expert in ISO/IEC SC 38, Cloud Computing, co-editor on revision of ISO/IEC 27002 Information Security Guideline and cofounder of The Danish Council for Greater IT-security.

Katrine Bergh Andersen, Consultant for research in Danish Standards

Katrine Bergh Andersen

Consultant for research and education in Danish Standards

Katrine Bergh Andersen is working with strengthening the relation between standardization and research, which she has been doing since 2010. Before that she has been working as information consultant in Danish Standards. She has a master’s degree in psychology of language from the University of Copenhagen.

In Danish Standards Katrine is establishing and coordinating research projects in Danish Standards. She is also representing Danish Standards in the European working groups and projects under theauspices of CEN/CENELEC regarding research. At a national level she is managing the national contact point (NCP) for research in standardization.

Danish Standards is the national standardization organisation in Denmark working with formal standardization, and therefore the national member of Danish member of CEN, CENELEC, ISO and IEC.

References

|25 years of ISO/IEC JTC1-We’ve come a long way! http://www.iso.org/iso/home/news index/news archive/news.htm?refid=Ref1601

|DS/EN 45020, Standardization and related activities - General vocabulary

|DS-hæfte 17, Introduktion til standardisering, Danish Standards, 2012

|Europe 2020 – A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, EC, Communication from the Commission, 2010 http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/pdf/ COMPLET%20EN%20BARROSO%20%20%20007%20-%20Europe%202020%20-%20EN%20version.pdf

Jerlang, Jesper|“Standardisering som regulering”, Standardisering som regulering – en antologi om standardisering i krydsfeltet mellem politik og marked. DS-hæfte 32, Danish Standards 2012, pp. 13-27.

|REGULATION (EU) No 1025/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation (Chapter IV) http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:316:0012:0033:EN:PDF

|Standarder som værdiskaber i danske virksomheder. Report made by DAMVAD for The Danish Business Authority (January 2013)

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Published

2013-07-26

How to Cite

Madelung, N. ., & Andersen, K. B. . (2013). An Introduction to Formal Standardization and the Work on ICT Standardization in ISO/IEC – JTC1. Journal of ICT Standardization, 1(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.121

Issue

2013: Vol 1 Iss 1

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Articles