What is ISO Standard?

The International Organization for Standardization is an independent, non-governmental organization, the members of which are the standards organizations of the 164 member countries. It is the world’s largest developer of voluntary international standards and facilitates world trade by providing common standards between nations. Over twenty thousand standards have been set covering everything from manufactured products and technology to food safety, agriculture and healthcare.

Each country identified in the map above consists of a standards organisation that represents their country. The UK is led by the BSI (British Standards Institution) which represents UK economic and social interests across all European and international standards organisations.

Within the BSI, Gilbert Verdian is chairman for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology. (https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/committees/50270820) Some example of organisations who are part of this committee are:

Any many more and these are just the companies involved with the UK Standards body, each of the 53 countries working on TC 307 will have their own members working towards the standard.

International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA)

Quant Network is a founding member in the European Union’s launch of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

The latest development happened at the INATBA incorporation on the 6th March 2019 in Brussels with 105 founding members and Gilbert Verdian was selected as an official signatory at the event. Other members of INATBA include Accenture, Accord Project, Alastria,Banco Santander, BBVA, Consensys, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Fujitsu, IOTA, Ledger, SAP, SIA, Swift, Telefonica, We.Trade and many more.

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications is an initiative promoted by the EU’s European Blockchain Partnership — a collaboration of 26 EU countries as well as Norway, including UK, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Ireland. Its objective is to develop EU blockchain regulation and prepare for the launch of EU-wide blockchain applications.

INATBA will provide an avenue for harmonising and implementing blockchain best practice at a European and International level to avoid technological fragmentation, especially in banking and financial services. The Association will bring experts together and enable them to implement ideas and proposals for the growth of blockchain-based infrastructure and digital services. Global banks BBVA and Banco Santander were revealed to be joining the initiative after the EU Blockchain Roundtable on November 20th, 2018.

The objective of the Association is to enhance trust and innovation in blockchain and other distributed ledger technology. It will promote guidelines and specifications for interoperable blockchain and other distributed ledger technology infrastructures and applications that accord with the relevant principles of EU and international law; meet the highest standards of cybersecurity, privacy, and energy efficiency; and where liability and responsibility are clearly established through transparent governance models.

Quant Network has been a pioneer in setting the blockchain agenda for Governments by helping implement and foster mass adoption of distributed ledger technology. Firstly, by founding the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 in 2015 where 53 countries now collaborate globally to implement a Standard that will be adopted globally by Government and technology and service providers. Quant Network will also drive to facilitate the collaboration of INATBA with ISO TC307.

The scale of INATBA is not just for the EU but International, supported by the EU (European Commission) to help with the following:

The below video is from Mariya Gabriel (the European commissioner for Digital Economy and Society) who was talking about INATBA and how Blockchain will be playing an essential role within the EU to resolve many problems faced currently.

EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

Gilbert is also a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum which is a European Commission initiative to accelerate blockchain innovation and the development of the blockchain ecosystem within the EU. He contributed to a recent report about Scalability, Interoperability, and Sustainability of Blockchains

A new technology can’t become successful on a mass scale without the right infrastructure. This includes such things as the technical hardware and software stacks, standards, the legal framework as well as governance best practices. Through the European Blockchain Partnership the EU has begun to consider Member State cooperation towards the goal of a European Blockchain Services Infrastructure to support cross-border digital public services. We think that government can play a positive role in helping to develop such an infrastructure through policy. Standards. — Today if we want to go in the direction of multi-layered interoperable ecosystem of blockchains, both policy makers and the blockchain industry, ideally working together, should prioritise the development of standards. Among these, we think the most important will be standards for digital identities in a blockchain context, and for interoperability between blockchains.

In Part Six, I look at the core team behind Quant Network as well as their partnerships that they have been able to announce. You can view that here

Part One — Blockchain Fundamentals

Part Two — The Layers Of Overledger

Part Three — Verification and the Tokenisation of data

Part Four — Features Overledger provides to MAPPs

Part Five — Creating the Standards for Interoperability (This Article)

Part Six — The Team behind Overledger and Partners

Part Seven — The QNT Token

Part Eight — Enabling Enterprise Mass Adoption

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What is a blockchain operating system and what are the benefits? Introducing Overledger from Quant Network

Wall Street 2.0: How Blockchain will revolutionise Wall Street and a closer look at Quant Network’s Partnership with AX Trading

Large Enterprise Adoption of Blockchain is happening, enabled by Quant Network’s Overledger