I am taking charge of the lectures of "Strategy for International Standardization" in Graduate Course of Osaka Institute of Technology[1] and Kokushikan University[2]. They respond to the requirements proposed by Japan business federation[3] and Japanese Government[4],[5].
The lecture program of last year included the following topics
| -- Requirements and classification -- | |
| (1) | Requirements for international standardization |
| (2) | International standards and other standards |
| (3) | Management standards |
| (4) | Organizations for international standardization and their activities |
| (5) | Standardization in consortia |
| -- Procedure issues -- | |
| (6) | Procedures for international standardization |
| (7) | Responsibilities of secretariats |
| (8) | Organizations and procedures for national standardization |
| -- Strategy issues -- | |
| (9) | Intellectual properties in standardization |
| (10) | Strategy for using TR, Fast-track and PAS |
| (11) | Supports and cooperation with standardization activities of Asian countries |
| -- Actual works and case studies -- | |
| (12) | Actual discussions in the IEC/TC100 meetings |
| (13) | Drafting national standards conforming to international standards |
| (14) | Drafting new work item proposals for ISO and IEC |
| (15) | Drafting international standards for ISO and IEC |
This year I added the four topics:
| (16) | Actual discussions in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 meetings |
| (17) | Actual discussions in the ITU-T/TSAG meetings |
| (18) | National government strategy for international standardization |
| (19) | Participation to a conference on international standardization of an academic institute (see 3.) |
[1] Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, http://www.oit.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/jyouhoukagakukenkyuuryou/index.html.
[2] Graduate Course of Interdisciplinary Intellectual Property Laws (in Japanese), Kokushikan University, http://law-openweb.law.kokushikan.ac.jp/chizai/kougi.html.
[3] Proposal for Promotion of Strategic International Standardization (in Japanese), Nippon Keidanren, 2004-01, http://www.keidanren.or.jp/japanese/policy/2004/007.html.
[4] Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2005 (in Japanese), Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, 2005-06, http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/titeki2/kettei/050926f.pdf.
[5] Toshiaki Kurokawa, Developing Human Resources for International Standards, Science & Technology Trends - Quarterly Review, 17, 34-47, 2005-10