...network effect,” and in the world of IT, the network effect is best gained and maintained through an effective ecosystem of open, adoptable and interoperable IT standards (see Addendum for...
...military planners in the acquisition, development, and implementation of command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systems that are interoperable. The Levels of Systems Interoperability (LISI) Model, although immature, provides...
...executable practice guidelines. The goal is to integrate and extend a number of open software standards so that guidelines in the meta-environment become a resource that any vendor can plug...
For decades utility companies and environmentalists alike have known that the most dramatic and economical advances in energy policy could be achieved through energy conservation than by any other means....
...“New Approach” policy, integrated into the New Legislative Framework. As well as supporting the regulatory framework, studies at the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels in various European countries and around the...
Although there is a lack of quantitative evidence on expected cost savings from adopting open standards there are abundant examples where an open standards policy has been adopted with consequent...
As cloud computing becomes ubiquitous, the need to fashion better and more finely targeted rules for the cloud takes on increasing urgency. Governance at its best is not an abstraction;...
Promotes carbon reduction and offset provider organizations. The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) is a non-profit membership organization which promotes best practice across the voluntary carbon market. The...
...out by the behemoth? I tried to give that question an even handed response as well – because in fact it's common practice for most companies to engage in the...
...document editing process This study describes the development and testing of functions to assist editors in the management and disposition of comments that are normally made during the refinement and...