World Standards Day celebrated on 14th October
Sunday 14th October marks the celebration of the 38th annual World Standards Day. The theme of this year's event is "Standards and the Citizen: Contributing to Society". With ever increasing concerns about issues that affect the global community as a whole, the message that international standards play a vital role in helping us all to fulfil our duties as world citizens is an important one.
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It is important to remember that international standards are voluntary. One aim of the World Standards Day is therefore to raise awareness of international standards and acknowledge the work carried out by international experts working within the world's principal standard-making organizations. |
Leaders of these organizations, Mr. Renzo Tani, President of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Mr. Håkan Murby, President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), explain the importance of the day as follows:
"A world without standards would soon grind to a halt. Transport and trade would seize up. The Internet would simply not function. Hundreds of thousands of systems dependent on information and communication technologies would falter or fail — from government and banking to healthcare and air traffic control, emergency services, disaster relief and even international diplomacy."
IRCA is pleased to support the work of these organizations and to play its own role in the process by certifying auditors who carry out audits against a wide variety of international standards.
12 October 2007