Interoperability: Key to international business - The role of ICT Standards
Ruslan David
Interoperability, to be held in Warsaw (Poland) on 6-7 February 2008.
The Conference will provide an international platform for business and
technical decision makers and other stakeholders to exchange views and
anticipate necessary interoperability developments in standardization
that will help market-driven solutions.
The conference on Interoperability: Key to international business is
an unprecedented event that will provide a first-class opportunity for
stakeholders to develop and discuss their views on a major challenge
for the future developments of standardization and industry activities
worldwide: interoperability.
Interoperability, not be confused with inter-connectivity or
compatibility (co-existence), is a vital component in the development
of markets for Information Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment
and service. It is the ability to exchange and use information between
networks, systems, devices, applications or components. Without
interoperability, the Information Society would not be possible and
users would quite simply live in a different world.
Standardization is an essential ingredient in achieving efficient
interoperability and assists in avoiding market fragmentation.
Understanding about this issue among governments, industries (both as
solution providers and end-users) and social partners is improving,
but more needs to be done to improve awareness on this matter. Experts
from the European, American and Polish industry and standardization
arena, as well as officials of the European Commission,
representatives of the Polish and American Governments and
representatives of Academia will help take the debate further by their
contribution to the Conference.
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Sincerely,
Ruslan David, MD
IFOMIS
eHealth Ontology Project
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