The Nature and Future of ICT Standardization

Sherrie Bolin

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)

Last December, government leaders such as Phillip Bond, US Undersecretary of Commerce, and Evangalos Vardakas, Enterprise Directorate of the European Commission, leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vendors including IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft, and ICT experts such as Tim Berners-Lee gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What brought these diverse leaders together? Standards.