Jusletter IT

Standards shape future technologies. The paper argues that a process is needed to enable all stakeholders to contribute to the development of these standards. This holds specifically for smart systems, which may be expected to have unprecedented societal ramifications. Such a process, which adheres to the principles of Responsible Innovation, is introduced. It follows from a discussion of the current situation in smart systems standardisation, including the representation of a variety of stakeholders and the resulting necessary multi-disciplinarity; this discussion unveils several shortcomings of the current process.