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Website. www.iso.org. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO / ˈaɪsoʊ / [3]) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. [4] Membership requirements are given in Article 3 of the ISO Statutes.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. [1] Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is one of the first and oldest specialized agencies of the UN. The ILO has 187 member states: 186 out of 193 UN ...
An international standard is a technical standard developed by one or more international standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use worldwide. The most prominent such organization is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Other prominent international standards organizations ...
The International Labour Organization (ILO), a tripartite specialized agency of the United Nations that sets international standards related to work, has 187 member states, as of August 2022. Established in 1919 as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, the ILO was the first agency to be incorporated into the UN in 1946, is the third oldest pre ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.
This meeting culminated in the International Telegraph Convention which was signed on 17 May 1865. [9] [10] As a result of the 1865 Conference, the International Telegraph Union, the predecessor to the modern ITU, was founded as the first international standards organization. The Union was tasked with implementing basic principles for ...
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services. Some 12,575 apply globally.
There are, as of 2020, 165 members of the International Organization for Standardization. Three types of membership status can be distinguished: [1] full member (member body) correspondent member; subscriber member