ISO - International Organization for Standardization

Last week, ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica visited Serbia and Croatia, meeting with our members at the Institut za standardizaciju Srbije (Institute for Standardization of Serbia) and the Croatian Standards Institute. The visits were an important opportunity to strengthen dialogue with ISO members in the region, exchange perspectives with staff, technical experts and stakeholders, and discuss how International Standards can continue to support trade, innovation, quality, safety and sustainable development. Discussions explored the future of standards development, including digital transformation, artificial intelligence, the evolving role of national standards bodies, and the importance of greater regional and international cooperation. Thank you to the Institute for Standardization of Serbia and the Croatian Standards Institute for the warm welcome and constructive discussions. We look forward to continuing our work together. #InternationalStandards #Standardization Ana Marija Boljanovic Tatjana Bojanic

🌿 The conversations at this week’s Global Nature Positive Summit kept coming back to one practical question: how do we make nature-positive action easier to implement, compare and scale? With 2030 approaching, and the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP17, in Armenia later this year, there was a strong focus throughout the summit on moving from commitments to implementation. Colleagues Adam Stingemore, from Standards Australia, and Daan van der Wekken from BSI represented ISO in conversations on aligning biodiversity and climate rulemaking, and on strengthening interoperability across the growing landscape of nature-related standards, frameworks and disclosure initiatives. 🤝 A clear theme was the need to make these approaches work better together. As organizations continue to develop metrics, reporting frameworks and guidance, greater alignment will be essential to reduce complexity and support implementation in practice. 🌍 This is where International Standards can make a meaningful contribution: by providing globally agreed foundations that help different frameworks and jurisdictions connect, rather than evolve in parallel. It was encouraging to see a strong drive to collaborate across organizations, including the Nature Positive Initiative, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development Daiichi Life Group, Inc., Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Capitals Coalition, EY and many others. Thank you so much to the Japanese Ministry of Environment and NPI for convening these important discussions. We look forward to continuing to work with partners across the ecosystem to support a more coherent, interoperable and effective approach to nature-positive action. See you all at COP17! 🔗 Learn more about ISO's work on biodiversity and nature: https://lnkd.in/eTkpy-Ty Marco Lambertini Sophie Bruchez #NaturePositive #GNPS2026 #Biodiversity

As AI for Good comes to a close in Geneva, we leave with a stronger sense of the work ahead and the collaboration needed to move it forward. Across the week, we joined discussions including diverse perspectives on how AI governance can be made practical, inclusive and trusted. The conversations reflected both the urgency and the complexity of the task. AI governance is not only about setting principles. It's about creating the conditions for those principles to be understood, implemented and applied in real-world contexts. International Standards have an important role to play in this effort. On the final day, discussions reinforced two important messages: ➡️First, AI governance needs practical tools. Legal frameworks, impact assessment methodologies and International Standards can work together to help turn governance ambitions into concrete action. ➡️Second, inclusive AI governance must be grounded in human rights and capacity building. Standards can help translate principles such as privacy, transparency, accountability and non-discrimination into practical, risk-based requirements. But their impact depends on helping policymakers, National Standards Bodies and other stakeholders understand, apply and shape them. We are grateful to International Telecommunication Union for convening these important discussion, and to the many stakeholders who brought their perspectives to the table throughout the week. We look forward to continuing this work with our members and partners to support AI governance that is practical, inclusive and globally relevant. Khaled Soufi - PhD Sergio Mujica Hoda Baraka Thomas Schneider Ayisha Piotti Peter Deussen Cindy Parokkil Boris Inderbitzin Wafa Ben-Hassine Olivier Alais Daniel Pap Andrew Andrea Noelia Garcia Nebra Philippe Metzger Seizo ONOE IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) #AIforGood #AIGovernance #InternationalStandards #ResponsibleAI #DigitalTrust

As the global AI community comes together in Geneva for #AIforGood, one topic sits front and centre: Ethical AI governance. AI is advancing fast. How do we ensure it evolves in ways that are safe, inclusive, trustworthy and benefit everyone? International Standards will certainly have a part to play. The Seoul Statement, a joint initiative between the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), ISO and the International Telecommunication Union, sets out a shared vision for the standards community for responsible, human-centred AI. Together, we are guided by four commitments which recognize that effective AI governance must go beyond technical progress to embrace human rights, socio-technical realities, inclusive participation and capacity building. The path ahead is a challenging one. We need alignment urgently. Yet as conversations evolve this week, our appetite for collaboration couldn’t be stronger. Let’s get to work and put responsible AI principles into practice. Explore more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiaydPfQ #SeoulStatement #AIGovernance

We’re midway through #AIforGood week, and standing room only at our joint session with the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) today highlighted the growing interest in how International Standards can serve as a bridge between AI governance and real-world implementation. The discussion explored how standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 and 42005 can help translate legal requirements and AI assessment methodologies into actionable approaches for governments, deployers and public authorities. 🔉What did we hear from presenters and participants? 🔸International Standards and legal frameworks, such as the Council of Europe’s Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law AI Impact Assessment methodology, are complementary. Together, they help turn AI principles into practical governance approaches that consider legal, human rights, policy, technical and organizational perspectives. 🔸ISO’s capacity building journey on AI policy and standards is helping countries turn governance ambitions into action, equipping policymakers and National Standards Bodies to integrate AI standards into national governance frameworks, strengthening collaboration on responsible AI and contributing to outcomes such as the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt's National AI Governance Framework. 🔸Applying standards in practice helps refine AI governance approaches. Participants discussed an impact assessment pilot project in which a real-world AI system is assessed using through IEC and ISO standards to help identify which elements of AI impact assessment are most relevant to different contexts. These discussions aligned with messages shared at the World Economic Forum’s high-level dialogue on safe, secure and trustworthy AI governance, where our Secretary-General Sergio Mujica highlighted how International Standards can help reduce fragmentation by providing a common language and shared benchmarks across borders. He emphasized the importance of inclusive standards development, ensuring that all those affected by AI have a role in shaping its governance. Together, these conversations reinforce a shared goal: turning AI governance principles into trusted approaches that work across borders and benefit us all. Thanks to IEC and to our speakers and participants. Gilles Thonet, Harry Verweij, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Matthias Kloth, Erich Kieck, Jeremy Ng, Daniel Pap, Nevine Tewfik, Mauricio Gibson, Michel Roberto Oliveira de Souza, Susanne Kuchs, Cindy Parokkil, Boris Inderbitzin, International Telecommunication Union, The World Bank Group, UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Today in Geneva, we joined key discussions at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and AI for Good, as part of a wider ISO delegation onsite this week, connecting with partners, listening to emerging perspectives and contributing to conversations on the future of trustworthy AI. At the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica highlighted the role of International Standards in helping translate policy ambition into practical, measurable and globally usable tools. Standards provide common language, support interoperability across governance approaches and help build trust through consistent approaches to testing, auditing and certification. At the AI for Good high-level roundtable on digital trust and AI infrastructure for all, ISO President Khaled Soufi - PhD emphasized that AI governance must be shaped by those it will impact. That means ensuring all voices are heard, including from developing countries, and creating meaningful opportunities for diverse regions and stakeholder groups to participate in the development of International Standards for AI. What stood out today was that responsible AI governance depends on cooperation between policy, standards, capacity building and the people working to implement AI in practice. In a space that’s full of fragmentation, we need stronger synergies and deeper collaboration across sectors and borders. Through ISO’s consensus-based system, and our joint work with IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), we are helping bring governments, industry, civil society, academia and the technical community together to support AI that is safe, trusted, inclusive and globally interoperable. #AIforGood #AIdialogue #AIGovernance #InternationalStandards #DigitalTrust #ResponsibleAI

AI capabilities are advancing faster than governance systems can adapt. That was one of the central messages from today’s presentation of the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance. It also raises an important question: How do we build governance that is informed by evidence without waiting for perfect certainty? International Standards are part of that answer. They translate scientific knowledge and shared principles into practical tools that organizations can apply consistently across borders, sectors and technologies. We have an ISO delegation on the ground in Geneva this week for AI for Good and the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, contributing to discussions on how AI governance can be inclusive, interoperable and practical. Later today, we joined the High-Level Multistakeholder Plenary on harnessing the benefits of AI for all through inclusive and interoperable approaches. Effective AI governance depends on exactly this kind of dialogue: governments, industry, civil society, academia, the technical community and international organizations working together to reduce fragmentation, strengthen interoperability and build trust. For us, the priority remains clear: supporting responsible innovation through International Standards that are globally relevant, practical and built through consensus. As AI continues to evolve, the challenge is not simply to keep pace with the technology, but to ensure that governance evolves alongside it. International Standards have an important role to play in helping make that possible. Many thanks to the Co-Chairs of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, H.E. Egriselda López and H.E. Rein Tammsaar, and to International Telecommunication Union, UNESCO, United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies and the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General for convening these important discussions in Geneva. 📸 Andrew Andrea #AIDialogue #AIGovernance #AIforGood #InternationalStandards #DigitalTrust

Cybersecurity starts with a common language. ISO/IEC27000 on Information security management systems has now been updated. Serving as the entry point to the ISO/IEC 27000 family, it provides an overview of the concepts and principles that underpin information security management systems (ISMS) and helps users navigate the standards that support information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection. What's new?  📖 A broader overview of information security management systems  🔗 Clearer connections between standards across the ISO/IEC 27000 family  📖 Expanded guidance on key information security concepts and principles  🧭 Easier navigation of standards supporting cybersecurity, privacy and digital trust  🌍 A stronger foundation for consistent implementation across organizations and sectors From risk management and information security controls to privacy and continual improvement, the ISO/IEC 27000 family provides a shared foundation for building trust and resilience in an increasingly connected world. Developed by experts from ISO and the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization, this revised edition reflects a global effort to support a safe, secure and trusted digital future. Want to learn more? Explore ISO/IEC 27000 and discover how the ISO/IEC 27000 family helps organizations build trust, resilience and cybersecurity in an increasingly connected world: https://lnkd.in/e8zdjWga  #Cybersecurity #InformationSecurity #ISMS #ISOIEC27001

🌡️ The record-breaking heat across Europe during this year's London Climate Action Week served as a stark reminder of exactly why this work can't wait. It was a privilege to be on the ground for a week of meaningful conversations, and to stand alongside so many organizations working toward the same goal: making climate action more credible, coherent, and scalable. From ISO 14060, the upcoming International Standard for net zero aligned organizations, to our ongoing partnership with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol), and the recent launch of ISO 32212 on transition planning for financial institutions, we are working to support greater alignment and reduce fragmentation so organizations can translate commitments into credible, practical action. Other highlights included an invitation-only event hosted by Oxford Net Zero and the IKEA Foundation, which brought together climate and net-zero standards organizations to discuss an upcoming report aimed at strengthening the credibility, trust, and legitimacy of climate and sustainability standards. The WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development brought together a remarkable group of voices to close out the week. Hearing from Peter Bakker and others reinforced that the direction of travel is clear, but it requires coherence to get there. Thank you to the many partners and organizations we connected with this week, including BSI, Science Based Targets initiative, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Social Value International, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol), WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development and IFRS Foundation. No organization can solve these challenges alone. We are ready to work with partners across sectors to build the coherence, trust and shared frameworks needed for the next phase of climate action. #LondonClimateActionWeek #LCAW2026

“Net zero needs a common language.” Fresh from London Climate Action Week, our Head of Sustainability and Partnerships, Noelia Garcia Nebra, examines how International Standards can help with net zero transition planning. With public consultation now open for the world’s first international, independently verifiable net zero standard, ISO 14060 aims to provide a common framework for credible and comprehensive net zero transition plans, helping bring greater consistency and coherence across a rapidly evolving landscape. As Noelia writes: “Lasting change rarely comes from a single initiative or a policy announcement. It happens when voluntary action, coordination, standards and regulation begin to reinforce one another. The standard is where that chain comes together." 📖 Read the full article now live on the World Economic Forum blog: https://lnkd.in/eCncbxYr #ISO14060 #NetZero #TransitionPlanning #InternationalStandards #Sustainability #LCAW2026 #LondonClimateActionWeek