IEEE-SA’s New Industry Connections Program Enables Uniquely Efficient and Economical Industry Collaboration
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA,17 August 2009 – The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) announced the formal launch of its new Industry Connections program, designed to help like-minded companies to quickly and cost-effectively come together in the early stages of collaborative work in a technical area. Groups have the unique opportunity to leverage IEEE and IEEE-SA resources in a customized format and produce varied content, such as proposals for standards, white papers, specialized tools, online databases, data feeds and/or video.
The program’s first activity, the Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG), is being announced in a separate IEEE-SA press release today.
“Industries typically reach a stage where some level of consensus must occur around some market-enabling technologies in order to trigger the next burst of innovation and market growth,” said Judy Gorman, IEEE-SA managing director. “But setting up a formal consortium from scratch is no inconsequential task. The effort typically includes such complex mandates as guaranteeing indemnity protection and limitation of antitrust damages, often requiring a year’s worth of effort before a group’s real work can begin. Industry Connections is designed to streamline the incorporation and intellectual-property logistics, and free a group to instead focus on a common industry or business problem and accelerate needed work products that include but are not limited to standards.”
Industry Connections addresses the earliest stages of the standards-development lifecycle and can serve as an incubator for new IEEE standards-related activities. As the program enables a group to assume a protected collaboration environment with minimal effort and expense and rapidly concentrate on its core purpose, groups can efficiently and economically:
build industry understanding and consensus in new technical areas
develop roadmaps for the creation and usage of consensus documents
assess the need for standardization, and make decisions on most appropriate form and venue
“Industry Connections has provided the ICSG the ideal avenue into efficient collaboration around computer security,” said Jeff Green, ICSG chair and senior vice president of McAfee Avert Labs. “Instead of concentrating on the necessary but tedious details around forming a group, we have been able to dive in to our primary, shared objective of combating the systematic and rapid rise in computer security threats.”
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About the IEEE
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.), the world's largest technical professional society, is commemorating its 125th anniversary in 2009 by "Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future" around the globe. Through its more than 375,000 members in 160 countries, IEEE is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. Dedicated to the advancement of technology, IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, and has developed over 900 active industry standards. The organization annually sponsors more than 850 conferences worldwide. Additional information about IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org.
