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Issue 10: The tech revolution – How standards empower digital transformation

This edition of Standards Outlook addresses many of the biggest topics in the digital arena, from artificial intelligence and data to the cyber-physical and telecoms infrastructure that enables connection between the digital and physical world.

Issue 10 includes articles on:

• Digital transformation in emerging economies
• Preparing the ground for self-provided 5G private networks
• Fighting cybercrime
• New fast track standards for smart street furniture
• Building consumer trust in the digital world

Standards are all around us, impacting all aspects of our lives from construction to nanotechnology, from energy management to health and safety, from the quality of your breakfast to protecting your online data. In this issue of Standards Outlook our BSI experts look at how standards are changing the world in areas that are essential to all of our futures.

In addition, we are delighted to have external contributions from Nikki Stopford, chair of the BSI Consumer Forum and Julie Hunt, chair of the Consumer and Public Interest Network (CPIN).

Issue nine includes:

• All voices heard – inclusion and diversity in standards making
• Net Zero – from commitments to action
• NSBs in the vanguard of the race to net zero
• Fighting cybercrime and building trust
• Hydrogen takes its place in the decarbonization toolkit
• Standards support ethical artificial intelligence
• International Projects takes on global challenges
• BSI Identify brings construction into the digital age
• Creating dementia-friendly communities
• Speaking up for consumers – CPIN and then Consumer Forum

Following from COP26, the latest issue of Standards Outlook looks at how standards play a crucial role in steering us towards a sustainable world for future generations.

Throughout Standards Outlook issue 8, BSI experts discuss how standards play a vital role in dealing with the most critical environmental issues the world is currently facing. In addition there are external contributions from Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Steve Kenzie and Dr Alex Tautrims from the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab and current chair of the BSI’s Technical Committee.

Issue eight includes:

• Carbon countdown – trust and transparency are critical to the fight against global warming
• On the road to net zero – transport and energy decarbonization
• Healthy mind, healthy body - recognizing the importance of mental health at work
• Built environment – infrastructure finds its place in a system of systems
• Sustainability in the agri-food sector
• Lifting the lid on modern slavery
• UN Global Compact - turning sustainability commitments into action

In the seventh issue of Standards Outlook, BSI experts, as well as external professionals, demonstrate how standards should be perceived as essential business tools for the UK Government to help create new and innovative trade opportunities for companies in the UK.

Issue seven includes the following topics:

• Making international standards work for trade agreements
• Giving consumers a say in trade policy
• Maintaining low friction access to the European market
• How to build trust in digital trade
• Case study: 'Working with standards is critical to our brand'

The sixth issue of Standards Outlook focuses on how your organization can use standards to build and maintain resilience in an uncertain and dynamic world.

Issue six explores standards and resilience in areas including:

• Environment, Social and Governance
• Supply Chain 
• Built environment
• Cyber Risk
• Oil and Gas
• Digital Manufacturing
• Construction

The fifth issue of Standards Outlook explores how standards can help your organization harness the power of digitalization.

Read the digitalization issue to discover more about the following topics: 

• Making the case for digital manufacturing 
• Building blocks for digitalization 
• Double vision 
• ''First, do no harm'' AI and medical devices
• Educating energy - energy supply and digitalization 
• Blockchain 
• Standards virtual conference 

The fourth issue of Standards Outlook focuses on how standards could help you do your part in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read the sustainability issue to find out about:

• Industry decarbonization and the circular economy

• Sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and climate change

• Smart cities and communities

• Diversity, inclusion and equality

Issue three focuses on how BSI is helping businesses understand how standards could assist them with the challenges they face, including:

• Consultancy Services
• how BSI is helping China to join the international standards community
• the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN)
• PAS (Publicly Available Specification)

BSI is pioneering new ways of collaborating with standards makers and users to ride the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read the innovation issue to find out about:

• how BSI is working to bring ethics to innovation
• the Future Standards Programme
• Digital manufacturing

Issue one of Standards Outlook explores how standards improve trade around the world and at home. The trade issue examines:

• the Commonwealth Standards Network
• how BSI can help small business to unlock their potential through the use of Standards
• AI in healthcare