Delivering a blueprint for the Obama administration
In March 2009, Yale University submitted a set of recommendations to the Obama Administration, outlining principles for improving the process by which technical standards are created.
The recommendations were the result of the Yale-IBM Summit on Open Standards held during the summer of 2008. Fifty delegates from the high-tech industry and academia met at Yale University Law to generate ideas for improving the transparency of the IT standards development process—and for raising and measuring the quality of standards it produces.
The Summit yielded calls for greater governmental involvement in the adoption of open standards—and for applying more reasonable intellectual property practices when designing those standards—as a way of spearheading greater technological innovation.
The development of standards has traditionally taken a low profile in public discourse. However, the topic began gaining greater exposure when then-U.S. presidential candidate President Barack Obama expressed support for open standards as a way of spearheading greater technology innovation.
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