ANSI has compiled a collection of resources to help our members and organizations throughout the standardization community adapt to new ways of working, leverage innovative technologies, strengthen operations, and emerge even stronger after COVID-19.
Browse the topics below to access links to informative presentations, usable guidance, and other free tools, reports, and data to aid the ANSI community as we continually adapt to change and a "new normal."
The increased reliance on virtual and hybrid meetings during the pandemic enhanced many organizations' remote work options, but we've also seen many challenges. The following resources were developed to share lessons learned and help ANSI members and the larger standardization community use virtual and hybrid meetings more effectively and impactfully.
ANSI's OMF sessions bring together representatives of standards development organizations for lively discussions of shared challenges, strategies, concerns, and experiences as the community adapts to hybrid meetings as a new normal. Watch the May 2023, February 2022, and October 2021 session recordings below.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world. While powerful generative AI tools are making headlines, behind the scenes, AI is also driving critical and emerging technologies like big data, robotics, and IoT. The opportunities and challenges are vast, and the standardization community has a key role to play in maximizing AI's potential and supporting its responsible use, as these activities demonstrate.
In the lineup of World Standards Week 2023 events are expert-led discussions of generative AI:
In 2023 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center (AIRC) to facilitate implementation of the AI Risk Management Framework (RMF). The AI RMF is intended for voluntary use to improve the ability to incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI products, services, and systems.
The International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, Information technology, Subcommittee (SC) 42, Artificial intelligence, looks at the full AI IT ecosystem to deliver horizontal standards that can be used as building blocks for relevant work across applications. The committee has developed foundational standards such as ISO/IEC 22989:2022, Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence Concepts and Terminology, and guidance in areas like data, trustworthiness, ethics, use cases, computational approaches and characteristics, and governance. ANSI holds the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 and the U.S. serves as its chair.
In 2023 the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) released a white paper examining the use of standards as part of an AI strategy. The paper provides a snapshot of the current AI landscape in Canada and internationally and identifies areas of opportunity to leverage standardization.
From virtual communication and collaboration platforms to AI-based efficiency tools, rapidly evolving tech advancements have the capacity to drive growth and impact for organizations across the standardization community. But a thoughtful, strategic approach and shared best practices for leveraging these tools is critical to building an effective and sustainable workforce of the future.
ANSI and our community can leverage valuable resources like these and continue the transformation into an even more flexible, responsive, digitalized, and effective standardization system.McKinsey & Company offers a useful collection of consistently updated data and analysis on the future of work, managing risk, digitizing operations, and emerging from the pandemic stronger.
Hosted by ANSI in partnership with Workcred, this World Standards Week conference examined how the acceleration of technology is impacting the U.S. workforce. Expert speakers and representatives from standards developing organizations (SDOs), government agencies, credentialing bodies, and companies discussed the effects of digital transformation and shared ideas for a responsive workforce, workplace, and standardization community.
Standards and conformity assessment solutions – and the hundreds of organizations behind them – played critical roles in pandemic response. Here, explore some of the ANSI community's most impactful work in the global fight against COVID-19, along with links to the latest federal data, guidance, and recommendations for health and safety.
Since the onset of the pandemic, ANSI has been compiling and publishing summarized news and updates on work supporting the fight against COVID-19-being done by our members and partners across the standardization community.
The growing collection includes a wide array of research, guidance, standards development activities, medical and technological advancements, and other resources and initiatives supporting public health, safety, and infrastructure, compiled at www.ansi.org/covid-19.
ANSI hosted a portal that provided read-only access to more than three dozen international standards supporting pandemic recovery, including ISO and IEC standards for medical equipment, protective clothing for health care settings, and business continuity management.
The CDC offers guidance, fact-sheets, and toolkits to help prevent and reduce transmission and maintain healthy business operations in non-healthcare workplaces.
OSHA provides guidance to employers on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID in the workplace.
