Open Standards & Technology Development

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OpenStand is a movement dedicated to promoting a proven set of principles that establish The Modern Paradigm for Standards. Through the principles, it encourages the development of market driven standards that are global and open - enabling standards without borders and driving innovation for the benefit of humanity.

The OpenStand principles are based on the effective and efficient standardization processes that have made the Internet and Web the premiere platforms for innovation and borderless commerce and are extendable to other technologies. The principles stress voluntary adoption and empower the economies of global markets — fueled by technological innovation — to drive global standards deployment. The result is The Modern Paradigm for Standards.

Since the launch of OpenStand in 2012, hundreds of proponents from industry, civil society, government and academia, as well as individual technologists and innovators have expressed their support of the principles.