OPEN STANDARDS Well firstly, standards are documents laying out procedures, stipulations and guidelines. Standards are designed to ensure that services, systems and products are consistent, safe and reliable. The term open standards can be define as a standard that is independent of any single owner and the general public can also amendment such standard. It also facilitate interoperability and maximise access to data, products, resources and services and are intended for widespread adoption. Other elements of open standards are but not limited to Reasonably balance – ensuring that the process is not controlled by any specific group or individual; Due process – consideration of and response to comments of interest parties; Intellectual …show more content…
Bruce Perens one of the founders of the open source movement in software and creator of the set of legal requirements for open source licensing; argues that an open standards is more than just a specification, it is the principles underlying the standard and the practice of offering and operating it. Below is a table representing the principle of standards as define by Mr. Perens Principle …show more content…
A Government will need to use Information Technology solutions to ensure that it has adequate and reliable information to ensure to the effectiveness of the government. It is of importance that these information technology implementations make use of open standards as far as possible. In cases where open standards are unavailable, the government should consider other free standards for usage and implementation. They must also consider whether these free standards have the possibility of becoming open standards in the
How would you define standardized terminologies and why are they important? Provide an example in your answer.
OECD has noted that Electronic government particularly refers to the use of the Internet as a tool to achieve better government (OECD 2003). Effective e-government seeks to achieve greater efficiency in government performance by making services easier to access, ensure accuracy, and improved efficiency (Almarabeh and Abu Ali, 2010). While government is still seen as inefficient, ineffective, or unresponsive and depriving citizens of abilities to engage in public affairs, e-government becomes a natural extension of the technological revolution that has accompanied the knowledge society by adding new concepts such as transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in the evaluation of government performance (Mohammad et al. 2009). E-government has the potential to increase transparency in public administration by making it easier to relay information of activities to those being governed (Drüke 2007). La Porte, Demchak, and De Jong (2002) also argue that a change in current management techniques to include more collaborative relationships can help government become more efficient, effective, and
Technological advances have made it easier for analysts as well as policy makers to access all the information they need. Open source information now accounts for 90 percent of the informati...
...ally lead to inefficiency (an attempt at win-lose negotiation). However, if objective criteria is introduced, then mutual consensus is more likely to arise and relationships between the parties will remain cordial. Objective standards must be practical, scientific and fair. Also, the standards must be accepted by all concerned parties.
The introduction of the Internet as an additional mass communication media has created new alternatives for information transmission. The ensuing popularity of the Internet has created many challenges that the public sector must deal with. Estimates in 1999 found that there are approximately 171 million Internet users worldwide (Group Computing, Jan/Feb 2000, p. 56). Change in the societal environment has made the Internet an integral part of the American economy.
The ISO aims to align the plethora of different standards into one quality system that can handle many standards. In order to align the standards, ISO has to first move the standards towards more competence, consistency, and impartiality so that businesses who follow them can practice the three tenants more openly in their process (Diesing). The revisions that have been completed on the various ISO standards, specifically ISO 9000 and 9001, have allowed companies in any industry to easily adopt them, making them prime models for future revisions to other ISO standards and indicators of how these standards will change over time. These standards are increasingly moving away documentation heavy manuals that force companies to adhere to stacks of procedural manuals which prevent adaptation to new procedures. The recently revised standards embrace subjective definitions for how companies define field-specific terms and rely on measurement of progress more than how well a procedure is followed to determine the success of a company in producing quality products. Current ISO standards focus more on identifying the particular task or activity that presents problems or delays in an organization rather than the old methods that involved writing procedure manuals to attempt to limit unknown variables that could raise issues
Almost every student takes them, dreads them, and stresses over them. They measure the growth and knowledge of a student, determining their aptitude for college. But are they truly accurate? Standardized tests “are defined as any test that is administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined way” (Mooney 10). Both the SAT and ACTS are controlled, unvariable systems that supposedly assess students in the most fair method. Primarily, “in the West standardized tests in schools appeared during the Industrial Revolution” (Mooney 11). Gradually growing and becoming more common, these tests became “standard” for their time. However, “in 1983 a report cited statistical evidence- 23 million American adults were functionally illiterate
Proceeding to look at the general advantages of having nation wide standards, Bigham presented the following by identifying an issue that comes with individual states mandating their own educational standards:
Educational standards are the foundation of the modern educational endeavor. Statements about educational success imply standards. Measuring whether or not students are being properly educated involves testing them in a particular subject with its prescribed set of grade-appropriate standards that they must meet or exceed. In the United States, most students are put through a battery of tests on a yearly basis to ascertain how students, teacher and schools are performing in comparison to the state standards. From these multiple-choice standardized tests both teachers and schools determine whether their work is successful, as deemed by their state 's department of education. The question is, what do such tests actually tell us about the student
Effectively integrating information technology (IT) into an organization’s business processes is critical if the organization wants to increase productivity and remain profitable. IT includes items such as the systems software, application software, computer hardware, and the networks and databases that help manage the organization’s information. When implementing quality standards and processes that are forever changing in the IT world, organizations must balance these changes while continuing to rapidly implement new systems technologies in order to stay competitive.
Standards and conduct (that an organis. sets itself in its dealings within the organisation and outside with its environment
Additionally, Engineers should accept only those engineering contracts that are appropriate with applicable standards. A standard is a document that contains requirements, specifications, guidelines
Standards rely heavily on the network effect, which is the idea that the effectiveness of a standard is based on the number of people who use it. As a result, standards that are complicated to implement, especially ones dealing with technology, are heavily dependent on incentives in order to get a sufficient amount of people to use it. Looking at PICS and PCI DSS, two Internet standards, where one succeeded and the other failed, we can see what makes standards effective online.
In the early 2000, SCORM and IMS data standards became popular. In particular the IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standard (LOM), IMS Content Packaging (and associated IMS Simple Sequencing) became sort of industry standards and also have been adopted by some decision makers and funding agencies in