The Intelligenter method (III) for “smarter” standards development and standardisation instruments

This paper shows the need for innovation in the development of standards and standardisation instruments. While standardisation activity overall is growing in terms of the number of standards being developed, exploration of new domains, organisations promoting standards development, etc.; the models and techniques to put forward new standards remain unchanged. This paper presents the third implementation of the Intelligenter Method, this time applied to the reinvention of the standards development model and standardisation practices in general. This new model is exemplified in this paper with a use case in the urban domain, the Cites Standards Institute (CSI 2.0). The CSI 2.0 is a pioneering format of standardisation group consisting of the partnership between a formal standards body, the British Standards Institution (BSI) and an urban innovation centre, Future Cities Catapult (FCC), both UK-based organisations. The CSI 2.0 uses the intelligenter principles to develop more user-driven and participatory-led standards development process. The Intelligenter Method principles consist of the creation of a collaboratory based on multi-stakeholder collaborations in an integrated multi-subsystems physical environment and have been successfully implemented so far in the intelligenter making of plans and projects (I) and in the drafting of policies and regulations (II). This paper presents how these collaboratories can help in the development of intelligenter standards and standardisation instruments (III).