We campaign within national governments and European standards bodies to ensure that standards are truly open, and there is an even playing field for competitors that benefit business, education, government and consumers alike. We ensure your point of view gets heard through discussion and debate through our web-board, wiki, and blogs.

We encourage the innovation open standards bring, (not constrain it), and assist vendors develop the best that modern information technology can offer without fear of being sued, whilst reducing the cost of delivery to users.

We encourage healthy innovation and new high-tech modern businesses, work to highlight and prevent monopolistic practices within the information area.

We do this through informed debate, assisting standards bodies and stakeholders to ensure open standards are truly open, enabling software to be the lubricant of your business, not the point of seizure.

Today we are lobbying to request that the proprietary MSOOXML standard developed by Microsoft, with hidden elements protected by unfriendly patents and licences, is not adopted by ISO when a fully agreed and widely used ISO XML standard already exists.

Software and solutions developed with this true open standard is today facilitating the New York Stock Exchange roll out advanced finance solutions, and at the same time ensuring delivery of $100 computers to resource strapped countries wishing to find their own place in the Technology sun.

This website covers our views, and explain is why Open Standards are important to all of us whether you are in government education business or consumers. In particular, we show what you can do to keep standards open and stop monopolistic behaviour impacting on our lives

We welcome your support.