The aim of World Standards Day is to highlight the importance of global standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in he/ping meet the needs of bus mess, industry, government and consumers world-wide. Each year on 14 October the members of the three apex international organisations that lead the development and dissemination of Standards: the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union ([ITU] celebrate World Standards Day. Standards Australia joins these organisations in paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts world-wide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as national and International Standards. The theme for World Standards Day 2003 is Global Standards for the global information society. Following is the World Standards Day message from Mr Oliver Smoot, President of ISO, Mr Sei-ichi Takayanagi, President of the IEC, and Mr Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of ITU.
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