Standardization Bodies

Standards organizations can be classified by their role, position and the extent of their influence on the local, national, regional and global standardization arena. Some of them are TDIL is working in collaboration with international organization for such as

International Organization for Standardization- ISO

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 159 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. BIS a national standard body is the founder member of ISO. There is issue based representation of India by TDIL, MeitY. www.iso.org

UNICODE

The Unicode Standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world. Department of Electronics and Information Technology is a member of Unicode Consortium with voting right. www.unicode.org

World Wide Web Consortium -W3C

The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. India is a full voting member of W3C. www.w3c.org & www.w3cindia.in

European Language Resources Association- ELRA

ELRA’s missions are to promote language resources for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering technologies. TDIL is a voting member of ELRA on behalf of government of India. www.elra.info

Bureau of Indian Standards- BIS

BIS is a founder member of International Organization for Standardization (ISO), continues to take part in international standardization activities. BIS is also actively involved in the activities of the International Electro Technical Commission (IEC) and has participation status in 34 Technical Committees. Director General, BIS has been elected as a member of Council Board for IEC which advises Council on various policy decision. BIS has developed standards for Indian Script Code for Infromation Interchange known as IISCI. www.bis.org.in