Information Society Standardization System (ISSS)

CEN/ISSS is the name given to CEN's ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) sector activities. It provides market players with a comprehensive and integrated range of standardization services and products, in order to contribute to the success of the Information Society in Europe.

CEN/ISSS works through CEN Focus Groups, Technical Committees and Workshops.
Click on the left for the lists of these, or below for:

Major Current Activities

Draft documents for public comments

• Draft CWA on European e-Competence Framework (WS/ICT-Skills) - Deadline: 7 September 2008 
• WS/ISDEM 'Information System for Disaster and Emergency Management' - Shared situation awareness – Part 1: Message structure & Part 2: Codes for the message structure: Deadline: 24 October 2008

Conferences and open meetings

• CEN/ISSS has agreed to become a supporting organization of the Open Standards Forum 2008 on 'Security challenges for the information society' which will be held from 29 September to 3 October 2008 at CA-hosted Historic Ditton Manor near London.
• The eGov-Share WS is organizing an open meeting on 20 October 2008 in Rome. The aim of the event is to present the last developments on the Workshop deliverables (CWA).
  This open meeting will be organized in relation with the EIISG2 summit.
  For information and registration contact Paul Van Rijsinge.

Calls for experts

We sometimes make calls for paid experts in given fields to draft standards material. The detailed requirements are in Project Team Terms of Reference linked from this page. Interested candidates should submit their CVs and a cover note expressing their motivation to the relevant contact, prior to the closing dates indicated. 

There are no current calls, but any new ones will be posted on this page.

RFID – a new standards collaborative project

The Global RFID Interoperability Forum for Standards (GRIFS) is a Support Action Project funded by the European Commission with the aim to improve collaboration and thereby to maximise the global interoperability of RFID standards.

New CEN/ISSS Workshops

There are no new ICT Workshops. For the operating workshops look in Major Current Activities.

Other recent news:

• European Standards Organizations Launch Joint Project on Interoperability of eHealth standards - 'eHEALTH-INTEROP'

• CEN/ISSS Newsletter - 11th Edition, January 2008