This year’s rising star is Tanzania’s own Neema Msemwa. A registered professional engineer, Neema has made her mark in standardization since graduating from the University of Dar es Salaam. Using her exceptional skills to support national endeavours, she currently serves as a Standards Officer and Secretary of the technical committee [...]
Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam emphasized the opening of the 5th China Quality Conference, which centered on the theme of cooperation in economic recovery that “Quality infrastructure supports the resilience of world trade by building and maintaining trust across value chains,” and “Investing in efficient supply chains is one of the [...]
Remarks by DG Okonjo-Iweala Ambassador Sofia Boza, Ambassador Jung Sung Park, Excellencies, Dear friends and colleagues, Delighted to join you this afternoon, the fact that the stocktaking meeting is being dne during the time when people are trying to achieve things, this is one of the really good things. I [...]
Reviving and protecting our ecosystems is this year’s World Environment Day theme and marks the beginning of the United Nations decade on ecosystem restoration. ISO is committed to driving the movement towards a #generationrestoration with new standards and initiatives underway. Poverty, climate change and extreme weather events are just some of [...]
Ensuring no one goes hungry on World Food Day. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), nearly 690 million people are hungry and the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially add a further 83 to 132 million people. What’s more, around 14 % of food produced is lost each year [...]
Celebrating a new standard in development on International Plain Language Day. What’s in a word? Defining our future and describing our past, words hold much power as they convey what we need to understand to function in society. But poorly written texts or bureaucratic jargon can jeopardize that power and [...]
Global standards leaders IEC, ISO and ITU join forces to better serve cities of the future. The first meeting of a new joint task force to coordinate international standardization for smart cities was held last week to discuss global learnings from the COVID-19 crisis and highlight the scale and urgency [...]
ISO offers international guidance and webinar to help the tourism industry get through the current crisis. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the world literally stopped still. With no-one going anywhere, the tourism industry was hard hit, suffering a drop in revenues of some USD 460 billion globally in the first half [...]
A new committee for consumer incidents has just been formed. Lifts breaking down, playground equipment giving way and faulty products are just some of the ways people get hurt every day, and often the first point of call is to attribute blame. But finding the root cause in all its [...]
From global navigation to exploring the furthest reaches of the universe, thousands of satellites orbit our planet, helped on their journey by ISO standards. With uses that include GPS and meteorology, mapping and scientific research, satellites play an important role in how we collect and transmit information around the world. More [...]