Beyond Standards


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How to make new technology ubiquitous, cheap and stable
Interoperability standards are a great solution, but occasionally it is good to go back to the question they attempt to answer. That question is how to take a new innovation, and take it to universal use, with cheap and/or highly sophisticated implementations that are a predictable part of an infrastructure. Other answers to that question include betting on a single vendor's products (as in PC operating systems), or developing bridges that make different implementations interoperable or interchangeable (as in some network routing gear).

In this session, we'll consider what other answers there might be, and also who benefits most from which intervention, in what situation. The session should be of particular interest to institutional decision makers, vendors and sector representatives.