IBM Announces New I.T. Standards Policy
To Encourage Improved Tech Standards Quality and Transparency, and Promote Equal Participation of Growth Markets in Globally Integrated Economy

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that, effective immediately, it is instituting a new corporate policy that formalizes the company's behavior when helping to create open technical standards. Such standards enable electronic devices and software programs to interoperate with one another.
In the globally integrated economy, open technical standards are integral to enabling the delivery of everything from disaster relief services and health care, to business services and consumer entertainment. They enable governments to create economic development platforms and deliver services to their citizens.
The tenets of IBM's new policy are to:
· Begin or end participation in standards bodies based on the quality and openness of their processes, membership rules, and intellectual property policies.
· Encourage emerging and developed economies to both adopt open global standards and to participate in the creation of those standards.
· Advance governance rules within standards bodies that ensure technology decisions, votes, and dispute resolutions are made fairly by independent participants, protected from undue influence.
· Collaborate with standards bodies and developer communities to ensure that open software interoperability standards are freely available and implementable.
· Help drive the creation of clear, simple and consistent intellectual property policies for standards organizations, thereby enabling standards developers and implementers to make informed technical and business decisions.
IBM encouraged members of standards communities to adopt similar principles, which are more stringent than required by existing laws or policies. IBM's new standards policy promotes simplified and consistent intellectual property practices, and emphasizes that all stakeholders, including the open source community and those in growth markets, should have equal footing as they participate in the standards process. IBM described steps to put these principles into action

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SHILPI KUMARI
PGDM-3rd SEM.