Industry Priorities and Challenges in 2008 for Open Source and
Standards
Information Technology Supporting the
Development of International Standards
ISO IT Strategy 2010 and Beyond
Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione, Milano, Italy
7 May, 2008
Dr. Bob Sutor
Vice President, Open Source and Standards
www.sutor.com/blog
What is the Goal?
The highest quality standards,
developed by experts from around the world in an open,
collaborative, balanced, and transparent manner,
designed to create a strong foundation on which we all can
innovate.
Some Basic Problems
We want the best people possible to participate, wherever they
live.
Travel is time consuming, expensive, and not green.
Getting together frequently face-to-face is not always
possible.
Ideally, we would like to
enable standards work
to take place 7 days a
week, 24 hours a day.
The Usual Solutions
Teleconferences
Email
Discussion lists
Document repositories / change control
IRC / instant messaging
Face-to-face meetings
Videoconferencing
Where appropriate, these should be provided or paid for by a
neutral party, such as the standards organization.
Additional, Newer Solutions
Wikis
Blogs
Social networking
Virtual worlds
Video sharing
The technology can be used publicly or more privately behind
firewalls or in closed communities.
Technical Requirements
For wikis, blogs, and social networking, just an Internet
connection, the faster the better.
For video sharing or web-based video conferencing, high speed
Internet.
For virtual worlds, a fast enough computer with a powerful
enough graphics card and high speed Internet.
Wikis, Blogs, and Social Networking
The purpose of a wiki is document creation and editing, and it
gets rid of the need for desktop document editing software.
Online document creation is also becoming popular, and will be
quite powerful by 2010.
Blogs and social networks are about sharing information in a
timely way and building communities of interest.
Virtual Worlds
Bring people together avatar-to-avatar.
Hold virtual meetings with interactive sharing.
Connect after meetings as you would in real life.
Get closer to real life interactions than teleconferences and
web chats.
Current Issues with Virtual Worlds
Bandwidth and hardware requirements
Confidentiality
Skills and interest of participants
Number of people who can get together in one place
Disconnect between avatar movement and human movement.
Why Web 2.0 and virtual worlds?
Because overcoming geographic social
separation is important.
Because people dont accept that older, less
visual paradigms must continue.
Because younger people were born on the web and so have
different insights and expectations.
Because were accessing information via an increasing variety of
increasingly powerful devices and we need better ways of dealing
with it.
Because better sharing of appropriate information allows us to
be more efficient and innovative.
My suggestions
Make sure you are fully caught up using the pre-Web 2.0
technologies.
Consider hosting ISO wikis, blogs, and social networks behind
your firewall.
Experiment with online document creation and sharing apps like
Google Documents.
Allow individual groups to experiment with virtual worlds, but
don't expect to be in production with them for 2 or 3 years, for
your purposes.
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