This interview with Per Andersen, Managing Director of IDC Nordic & Benelux, was conducted for Talkstandards.com via email during January 2010 in the lead up to the Open Forum on SSO Governance.

A major theme of the interview was his 2008 report titled the “Evaluation of Ten Standard Setting Organizations with Regard to Open Standards” (full pdf here). The report, that was commission by the Danish Government, seeks to evaluate and compare the openness of 10 Standards Setting organizations. A summary of the report can be found here.

Other topics addressed during the interview are SSO Governance, Open Standards as well as the role of government in the standards setting process.
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In a speech last October, Neelie Kroes summed up the Commission’s stance (at the time) toward standard setting and, in doing so, highlighted a key area of policy debate: the role of government. In particular, she stated that:

“A more productive type of intervention [as compared to ex post antitrust/competition based on Article 82 or the Sherman Act] is, however, when the Commission follows the adage that ‘prevention is better than cure’. In other words
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