The world economy is moving from a predominantly industrial society to a new Information Society, and is becoming ever more information-based. It is, therefore, crucial for competitiveness and success in business to improve the systems used to access and distribute information and the technologies that drive them.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applications, such as electronic Invoicing, car navigation or flight booking systems are also radically changing the way companies and governements work or individuals enjoy their leisure time. The promise of the new technologies is real. However, ICT applications will not reach their full potential unless they and their supporting infrastructures are fully interoperable. This is the role of standards.
CEN, The European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, are collaborating on the production of ICT standards that support the development of open and competitive markets for the benefit of both consumers and industry.
New Workshops
The CEN/CENELEC Workshop is a flexible working platform open to the participation of any company or organisation, for rapid elaboration of consensus documents.
New Workshop on XBRL (Improving transparency in financial reporting) - Kick-off meeting, Madrid, 30 May 2012.
Calls for experts for CEN Project Teams
We regularly publish calls for paid experts in given fields to draft standards material. The detailed requirements are in the Project Team 'Terms of Reference' linked from this page. Interested candidates should submit their CVs and a cover note expressing their motivation to the relevant contact, prior to the closing dates indicated.
A call of experts for a project team is open in the frame of the new XBRL workshop. Here are the Terms of Reference of the project team and the application form to be used.
The deadline for this call is 1 June 2012. Application forms have to be sent to the secretariat.
Draft CWA for public review
The consensus documents produced by the Workshops are called CWA (CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement).
The CMap project "Classification and mapping for eBusiness and eProcurement" is proposing its draft CWA for the 60 days public review period. Deadline is 26 June 2012. See details
The InTime Workshop "Secure multilateral communication via EDI in non-hierarchical networks" is proposing its draft CWA for the 60 days public review period. Deadline is 9 July 2012.See details
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