New ANSI Resource Explains Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnership Models

Now Accepting Use Cases to Demonstrate Effective Public-Private Partnerships

The American National Standards Institute is pleased to announce its newly launched Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnership Models webpage, offering detailed descriptions of five models of Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnerships (SD-PPPs), as well as 19 associated use cases. ANSI is now accepting submissions documenting additional effective SD-PPP initiatives.

What are Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnerships (SD-PPP)?

SD-PPPs are a type of public-private partnership where resources invested are directly impacting consensus-based standards development. Common work products of SD-PPPs may support activities including:

• Pre-standardization activities (e.g., development of landscape analyses, roadmaps, gap analysis, research)
• Standards development (e.g., support for the proposal and/or formation of new committees, identifying and convening technical experts, content development)
• Implementation (e.g., increasing awareness, technical training, workforce development, conformity assessment)

Ultimately, when properly designed and executed, SD-PPPs can facilitate timely action to assess standardization needs in a particular industry or technology area and offer innovative, high-impact approaches to address these needs.

Drawing from extensive research captured in ANSI's 2024 report "Enabling Standards Development Through Public-Private Partnerships," common objectives and work products of SD-PPPs have been formulated into five models:

• Direct participation: the public sector directly participates in the standards development process alongside other stakeholders at the table
• Standard acceleration: focused on convening stakeholders to discuss opportunities, challenges, and needs for a given technology and applicable sectors
• Funded participation: used to increase and balance participation of subject matter experts in the standards development process
• Funded standards development: used when stakeholders need resources to conduct research, testing, or data gathering to help inform and develop standards
• Policy and conformance driven: the public and private sector collaborate to develop standards specifically to meet a new regulation, policy, or conformity assessment requirement

Read more about these five models, along with 19 associated use cases: Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnership Models

Submit Your Use Case

ANSI is now accepting submissions for additional use cases of standards-driven public-private partnerships. To submit a use case, please follow the instructions in this template.

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