As a business-to-business technology innovation leader, Nokia is helping to ensure that this wave brings badly needed productivity, efficiency, safety, and sustainability gains to a range of industries. That open foundation enabled different players, across different countries, to contribute the complementary elements that make up the internet as we know it.ĭigitalization is rapidly reaching the shores of almost every industry, from agriculture to energy to manufacturing to transport. The success of the World Wide Web was shaped by the invisible architecture of shared standards, common protocols, and interoperability. And shared standards help spur innovation. Standards help ensure products and devices made by different manufacturers remain interoperable.
From planes, trains, and automobiles, to medical devices and shipping containers, to the voltage of the electricity coming from the wall socket of a hotel room–all require a degree of standardization for their smooth operation across national borders. When people can’t understand one another, it can be awkward or even amusing but when machines don’t talk the same language, it can be costly–and sometimes fatal. That’s a view that we wholeheartedly agree with at Nokia. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) secretary-general, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, has called for the industry to speak “the same language” and reach a consensus on global technical standards to make digital networks not only more connected and efficient but, crucially, more sustainable and accessible.
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