# Presentation: 525455

## Slide 1

**International Standardization and Education**
**Daniele Gerundino**
**Strategic Adviser to the Secretary-General**
**International Organization for Standardization**
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**ICES Workshop, NIST, Gaithersburg (USA)**
**21-22 February 2008**

## CONTENTS

- ISO and Education
- ISO Awards
- ISO’s eLearning programme
- ISO/IEC inventory of studies on economic benfits of standardization
- Cooperation in the framework of WSC

## ISO and Education

- Standards are a vehicle for the sharing of knowledge, technology and good practices: an essential component of the world-wide industrial and post-industrial infrastructure
- The key role of standards has been implicitly recognized, since a long time, in the education programmes covering a broad variety of technical fields
- More recently, educational institutions all over the world have recognized the importance of standardization for the contribution that it can give to trade of products and services, to promoting good business practices and to fostering technological innovation
- ISO considers this trend of utmost importance and believes in the fundamental contribution that educational institutions can give on teaching what international standardization is and what can be achieved through it

## The ISO Award

- Introduced in 2006, the ISO Award aims to raise awareness of the importance of standardization worldwide by supporting institutions of higher education that have developed and implemented successful programmes related to standardization as a tool to access world markets, transfer technology and promote good business practice and sustainable development.

## The ISO Award (2)

- The award comprises a certificate of appreciation and a cash prize of 15.000 Swiss francs. It is co-sponsored by ISO and the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC), the ISO member for Japan.
- The award selection committee consists of eminent international personalities from academia, the economic sphere and the media.

## The ISO Award (3)

- ISO Award 2007 selection committee:
**Chair, George Arnold**, ISO Vice-President (policy);
**Mr. Guillaume Chenevière**, Director, Media and Society Foundation;
**Dr. Barbara Ischinger**, Director, Directorate for Education, OECD
**Mr. Guy Sebban**, Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
**Prof. Masami Tanaka**, Director General, Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA); Vice-President, Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC)
- Six finalists selected: educational institutions from China, Egypt, France, Republic of Korea, Japan and the Netherlands

## Slide 8

## Hangzhou 

**Hangzhou **

**Shanghai**** **

**Jiliang UniversityCampus**

## The ISO Helmut Reihlen Award

- Helmut Reihlen Award was created in 1999 in the form of a contest for young standardizers in developing countries and economies in transition, focusing attention on standardization and related matters
- The purpose of the contest is to mobilize the enthusiasm of young standardizers in developing countries and economies in transition and to raise awareness of the importance of standards in promoting safe and sustainable development

## The ISO Helmut Reihlen Award (2)

- The contest is held every two years under the *ISO Action Plan for developing countries*
- Prizes reward the best essays written on an important subject of international standardization or related matters
- The contest is open to permanent employees working in a national standardization institution, member of ISO, as well as experts engaged in ISO’s technical work
- The theme for the **2006 Helmut Reihlen Award** was “*Stakeholder involvement for effective participation in international standardization*” – the award was granted to **Mr. Madungwe from SAZ (Zimbabwe)**
- The theme for the **2008 Helmut Reihlen Award** is “International Standards supporting public policies” and the competition is being launched shortly

## The ISO Lawrence D. Eicher Leadership Award

- Every year, the award provides recognition for superior performance by one of the ISO standards development groups
- The 2007 edition has gone to subcommittee SC 4, *Industrial data*, of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 184, *Industrial automation systems and integration*

## The ISO Lawrence D. Eicher Leadership Award

- The major development efforts have focused on the STEP series of standards, i.e. Standards for Exchange and Product Data (ISO 10303 – *Product data representation and exchange*)* *

- for different functional areas, covering product design, analysis and manufacture. The STEP standards and data modules represent hundreds of millions of dollars of proven investment, and are available to help in the generation of consistent product information models through the entire range of products covered by ISO.

## The ISO eLearning programme

- Three main target groups
- Learners in higher education environment (**HE**)
- ISO members’ staff, particularly in developing countries (**MB**)
- Experts in ISO’s technical work (**TE**)
- First priority: **MB**** **target group – develop or extend competences to support national interests in international standardization (ISO members’ staff, particularly in **developing countries**)
- Three eLearning modules cover all the core competences of an **Expert in International Standardization Management**

## Expert in International Standardization Management

**Assessing priorities for standardization**

**Managing participation in international standardization**

**Implementing international standards**

**MODULE 1**

**MODULE 2**

**MODULE 3**

**5 months, 1 to 2 hours per day**

**3 months, 1 to 2 hours per day**

**3 months, 1 to 2 hours per day**

## Approach (1)

**Learning by doing**
- Creation of a **simulation (« story »)**** **around** **which to structure the « core » learning experience. The student is asked to play a role and **perform the actual tasks** that a person fulfilling that role is expected to do
**Specific materials** are provided in relation with the undertaking of the various tasks identified
- General information and descriptive materials (guides, textbooks, official documents, presentations, templates/tools,..) are **provided as « side content »,** to be used as supporting material

## Southistan

- Welcome to

## The « Story »

**Setting**:
- Country:** ****Southisthan**** **- Capital:** ****Sirabad**
- Standards body: **SBS – Southistan Bureau of Standards**
**Main players in the course**:
**Dr. Samina Khan** – Director for Standards Development in SBS (she joined SBS recently and is promoting innovation in the institute)
**Standards Officer** – Working under supervision of Samina Khan – this role is performed by the** ****learners**
**Mentor** – Outside the story: provides advice throughout the course, reviews work done by the learners and coordinates the interactions among them

## The Course – Module 1 homepage

**Start page of a task**

**Student – Mentor – « Private Discussion Board »**

## Materials  

**Each module incorporate dozens of content elements including:**** **
- Comprehensive **informative documents** and **guides** covering a broad variety of topics*
**Business cases** developed with the support of NSBs and ISO committee experts
- Excerpts from **ISO normative publications**
- Document **templates**
**Checklists**
**Models** and IT tools
- Selection of relevant articles and documents, along with **selected bibliography** and **hyperlinks** to relevant information sources

- * *The majority of which were newly designed in the framework of this project*

**Feedback from participants**

**From the IRAM (Argentina)bulletin** January 2005

**Feedback from participants(2)**

**From Argentina **

- “....*I find really useful the methodology for assigning priorities to standards, considering the economic role of a sector and the social problems and the plans and policies of the government..**... I actually used the methodology they explained for the overall matrix template and for developing the communication plan...”*
- “...*Recently there was an international conference in Ghana and I was asked to give a presentation on The Role of Standards for Economic Development.  I can assure you that most of the material used came from your course materials and it was well received by the audience.  I have also passed on most of the materials to my superiors to be used in the reorganisation of the Standards Division of GSB and it has been found very helpful.  For all this and more I say thank you* .”

**From Ghana **

**Feedback from participants (3)**

**From China **

- “... *I believe this program will be very helpful on decision making in standardization management...*
*    ...**I also want to extend my acknowledgements to Anwar here very much. He gives me guidance and suggestions even reminders whenever I need them...”*
- “...*For me it turned out to be a very useful and illuminating exercise which should be of great value to our organizations if adopted in our strategic planning sessions.*
*	**I think it is simply great that such an online course has been developed because through it, ISO can easily spread its influence to the farthest corners of the world, provided they are electronically linked. I'm happy and feel priviledged to be part of this pilot project.”*

**From South Africa **

**Feedback from participants (4)**

**From Jordan **

- 	Fellow e*-learners, I think the completion of this course is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Let us continue to communicate, share experiences and improve our operations by implementing the dictates of this cause*.”

**From Zimbabwe **

## Development team 

**ISO/CS**: Jean-Remy Alessi, Anwar El-Tawil, Daniele Gerundino, Graham Kimberley, Reinhard Weissinger with the support of PR, DEV-T and other ISO/CS departments
**Socratic Arts****:** (*the company founded by Roger Schank, the eLearning visionary*) Suzanne Furlong, Kemi Jona, Roger Schank and others
**With special thanks to:** DIN (Germany), JISC (Japan), DSM (Malaysia), SABS (South Africa) and ISO experts from ISO TC 45, TC 67, TC 127, TC 157

## ISO/IEC inventory of studies on economic benfits of standardization

- The analysis undertaken by ISO and IEC has focused on identifying studies on economic and social benefits of standardization based, as far as possible, on recent and original field research
- The inventory is publicly available on the ISO/IEC Information center web site _[http://www.standardsinfo.net/info/livelink/fetch/2000/148478/6301438/benefits/benefits.html](http://www.standardsinfo.net/info/livelink/fetch/2000/148478/6301438/benefits/benefits.html)_
- It will be further extended to become **a joint  ISO/IEC/ITU initiative**
- Special thanks to our partners from academia who helped to develop and improve the inventory

## WSC Cooperation 

**ISO/IEC (and soon ITU)** inventory of of studies on economic benfits of standardization
**Cross-linking** of the sections on the respective web sites dedicated to standards and Education (or « Academia »)
**Development** of a common set of training materials covering various aspects of standardization to be made available to educational institutions (materials to be extracted from the WSC « Standardization Community Management Course »)
**Possible organization** of a « Standards and Academia » week in Geneva (in 2009 or 2010)