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The American National Standards Institute is pleased to announce its newly launched Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnership Models webpage, offering detailed descriptions of five models of Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnerships (SD-PPPs), as well as 19 associated use cases. ANSI is now accepting submissions documenting additional effective SD-PPP initiatives.
What are Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnerships (SD-PPP)?
SD-PPPs are a type of public-private partnership where resources invested are directly impacting consensus-based standards development. Common work products of SD-PPPs may support activities including:
Pre-standardization activities (e.g., development of landscape analyses, roadmaps, gap analysis, research)
Standards development (e.g., support for the proposal and/or formation of new committees, identifying and convening technical experts, content development)
Implementation (e.g., increasing awareness, technical training, workforce development, conformity assessment)
Ultimately, when properly designed and executed, SD-PPPs can facilitate timely action to assess standardization needs in a particular industry or technology area and offer innovative, high-impact approaches to address these needs.
Drawing from extensive research captured in ANSI's 2024 report "Enabling Standards Development Through Public-Private Partnerships," common objectives and work products of SD-PPPs have been formulated into five models:
Direct participation: the public sector directly participates in the standards development process alongside other stakeholders at the table
Standard acceleration: focused on convening stakeholders to discuss opportunities, challenges, and needs for a given technology and applicable sectors
Funded participation: used to increase and balance participation of subject matter experts in the standards development process
Funded standards development: used when stakeholders need resources to conduct research, testing, or data gathering to help inform and develop standards
Policy and conformance driven: the public and private sector collaborate to develop standards specifically to meet a new regulation, policy, or conformity assessment requirement
Read more about these five models, along with 19 associated use cases: Standards-Driven Public-Private Partnership Models
Submit Your Use Case
ANSI is now accepting submissions for additional use cases of standards-driven public-private partnerships. To submit a use case, please follow the instructions in this template.