OC#2 2026

My fellowship tackles the following gap, the standardisation of clinical information, as clinical information must be standardised to ensure the secure and effective use of language models in electronic health records (EHRs). 

ICT Standards funding enables me to attend JTC21 WG1, WG2, WG3 and WG4 meetings and national commission gatherings of NEN (Dutch standardisation body). For me, as a newcomer to the field of standardisation, attending various international and national standardisation-related meetings is insightful. 

This is a project with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5 addressing Identity Management and Privacy Technologies. It feeds into broader standardisation activity around digital identity (including the EUDI Wallet), child protection, prevention of exploitation and abuse, data minimisation, privacy preservation and security objectives.

In the context of this fellowship, I have been working solely on ISO/CD 24138, the International Standard Content Code. The ISCC is part of “ISO/TC 46/SC 9 Identification and description”. 

Blockchain technology is poised to play a fundamental role in democratising internet technology, offering decentralised solutions that prioritise transparency, security, and user empowerment.

This fellowship project has prioritised ‘gap areas’ where the lack of adequate DLT/Blockchain standards is slowing the formulation of government regulations and cross border agencies, or where ambiguity of language is causing confusion or slowing integration of distributed systems.

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. 

Through this fellowship project, I am directly pursuing the development, approval, and publication of the following standards: ISO 22739:2024 ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies – Vocabulary’, ISO/TR 24332  ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology in relation to authoritative records, records systems, and records management’ and ISO/NP 24982 ‘Digital currencies – Vocabulary’.

Having MEP equipment modelled and standardised could make this process economic and a disruptive market technology. The final objective is to develop an initial ontology oriented to simulation in buildings.

My fellowship tackles the gap related to the insufficient models for achieving analysis-ready geo data. 

There is a lack of standard procedures installers can employ to determine whether their installation work has caused new electromagnetic interference problems. The challenge is to develop guidelines to help detect major emissions problems in the field early to fix them promptly, in a proactive and preventive manner that are complementary and coherent with standard emissions tests as part of compliance assessment. 

My fellowship aims to contribute to ongoing efforts related to standardisation and European policy, advising on topics related mainly to Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence.