Smart Grid  technology can enable substantial savings of energy, decrease cost and increase reliability.  ZigBee Alliance technology currently has a momentum and is being selected as the interoperability standard on several continents.  
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In a previous post about the future of standards, – I mentioned that standards are boring but a necessary part of ICT strategy. Having said that, the future of standards is an interesting space – especially due to the management of the standards setting process involved ex. the complexity on a global scale
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The openEHR Foundation is an international non-profit foundation founded in 2000, with the ambition to make interoperable and lifelong electronic health records (EHR) a reality and improve medical care in the information society through the open standard specification openEHR.
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Background:

This blog is a summary of my discussion at the talkstandards forum last week in Brussels. I see both the talk and the event as the continuation of a debate – both online and offline.
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[Comments welcome!]

This version 2009-05-07

Domain: eHealth standards, see eHealth standardization map http://www.talkstandards.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/map-ehealth-sso.jpg [accurate?]

The openEHR Foundation is an international non-profit foundation founded in 2000, with the ambition to make interoperable and lifelong electronic health records (EHR) a reality and improve medical care in the information society through the open standard specification openEHR. The foundation is dedicated to the development of specifications, open source software and tools for the creation of adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records. The focus in openEHR is not on how different systems exchange data with each other, but on architecture, reference models and especially archetype models for standardization of data, irrespective of the application of such data. The term openEHR is used both for the foundation and its published work. The first version, openEHR 1.0, was released in February 2006, and the latest version, openEHR 1.0.2 was published on New Year’s Eve in 2008. [extent to which openEHR and other SSOs overlap? Specific niche for openEHR?]

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On 2 June 2006, the Danish parliament (the Folketing) unanimously adopted Parliamentary Resolution B103 on the use of open standards for software in the public sector. The Resolution instructs the Government to ensure that the public sector’s use of information technology, including the use of software, should be based on open standards.
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I have been meaning to do this blog for a while but got sidetracked due to other things.
In spite of my initial skepticism about the open web foundation, I have been enjoying participating in the Open Web foundation

For some time now, and especially after the recent debate about the Open Cloud, I have felt that there should be a need to rethink standardization going forward.
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Like many people, I did not think highly of the Open Cloud manifesto episode last week and now that some resolution seems to have come of it with the apology from CCIF, it’s time to leave the CCIF manifesto episode behind to the wider issues.
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The European standards body ETSI has asked the European Commission not to re-define ‘open standards’ in ways that conflict with the normal practice of standards bodies.
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The European standards body ETSI has asked the European Commission not to re-define ‘open standards’ in ways that conflict with the normal practice of standards bodies.
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