Notes on tracebility and standards

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Notes on tracebility and standards

• Harm Jan van Burg

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Intro and disclaimer

• Goverment
• Electronic services delivery
• Standardsmanagement
• Programme management
• Policy implementation
• Personal title

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Society Government

• Complex
• Political
• Balance between what should be done and what can
  be done
• In control

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Tracability

• Supply chain
• Used to be just buy-ship-pay
• Long detailed chains
• Farmer to fork

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In Control

• Industry
• Govenment
• Information
• Where, Who, What
• Health

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What can we do

• UN/CEFACT open transparant and free
• Community gov. control not a company
• Trade and Transport facilitation
• wide or narrow scope
• Definitively a standards issue
• More specific a semantic issue

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Semantics and Trust

• Global understanding about goods and products
• Understanding on wherabouts
• Not just messages
• Trusted controled semantics

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Agiculture

• Leading sector
• Food
• Health
• Trust
• Lots of activities, Fish, Plants, Flowers,
  Livestock

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Recommendations

• Use of libraries
• Careful with commercial standards
• Always ask where is this from? who benefits?
• Standards are not A-political
• Involvement paramount

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Committee on trade supported by UN/CEFACT

• Trust and stability
• Equal playing field
• Facilitating trade
• Protecting society
• Enable balance and control

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Next steps

• Cooperation (also within UNECE)
• Support and involvement (help us supporting you)