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A key goal of my work is to advance the digital transformation of standardisation itself. While digital processes are already common in business and administration, most standards are still developed using traditional, text-based methods with a high degree of manual effort. I aim to make standards digital, machine-readable, and easier to maintain, supported by tools that enable automated versioning, validation, and quality assurance.
I also strongly promote the use and evolution of Open Standards. Open and freely available standards encourage broader participation, faster development cycles, and more thorough expert review across the European and international community.
With the fellowship, I can expand my ongoing work on the European e-invoicing standard EN16931, turning voluntary contributions into focused development. The goal is to bridge the gap between theoretical standard specifications and practical implementation through automation and open-source collaboration.
Ultimately, this effort contributes to greater efficiency, transparency, and digital sovereignty within Europe’s standardisation ecosystem — ensuring that the standards themselves become as modern and interoperable as the digital solutions they enable.
 

This fellowship targets consumer-centric privacy by design in international standards work. Moreover, the Specific priorities, gaps and challenges identified are: 

• Consumer trust and privacy gaps: Fragmented practice and fast-moving online services erode user trust; legal principles (e.g., privacy by design, accountability) are not consistently translated into usable, testable requirements. 
• Stakeholder involvement: Consumer organisations and SMEs face high barriers to engage in lengthy, technical processes; national mirrors vary widely in how consumer voices are integrated. 
• Skills & usability deficits: Lack of shared patterns (consent, transparency UX, data control) and uneven digital skills hinder meaningful participation and compliant implementations. 
• Landscape fragmentation: Overlapping activities across SDOs make it hard for newcomers to find entry points, slowing delivery on e-privacy, safety, and transparency outcomes. 

How the fellowship addressed these

This fellowship supports my engagement as the chair of Chair of  ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 44. The group’s Strategic Business Plan (SBP) aims to respond the the challenges identified above in the following manners: 

• Th TC establishes an inclusive, modular work approach that supplements ISO 31700-1 with smaller, technology-/sector-specific deliverables—lowering thresholds for participation and speeding time-to-impact on safety, transparency, and e-privacy. 
• Low-threshold stakeholder mechanisms: Communications/outreach plan and light-touch consultation formats to systematically bring in consumer groups and civil society, aligned with ISO/COPOLCO and relevant liaisons. 
• SME: A stepwise, outcome-oriented approach envisaged in the SBP to accommodate different maturity levels and resource constraints, easing adoption by SMEs. 
• Early scoping of verticals: Following the September 2025 SC 44 meetings in Kunming, first preliminary work is being initiated with additional verticals to follow.

CEN/TC 442 is leading the publication of standards on digital construction, also referred as “building information modelling” BIM.

In this fellowship, the main priority focuses on helping organisations to drive innovation and technological transformation using the Centre of Excellence (CoE) as the best management mechanism in a context of a shortage of professional profiles with expertise in Artificial Intelligence and other disruptive technologies.

A strong priority for this work is to contribute to standards to enable consideration of the support for data management in the cloud. Data spaces can only be fully realised with the application of strong quality management controls through standardisation at multiple levels. 

My contribution has a direct impact in 3GPP Release 19 specifications in the TR 23.946 CAPIF Guidelines. 

This project, towards enabling a fairer marketplace for rights holders and remuneration of authors and performers, initiated work on a new standard ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format currently at the Working Draft (WD) stage.