DIGITAL SME upholds small and medium enterprises’ interests in various standardisation bodies, as well as in European Commission expert groups and other stakeholder organisations.
The Experts
Our ICT standardisation SME experts are directly involved in standards-making, through their active work in different technical committees.
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (ISO TC307 WG5 ; CEN-CENELEC JTC19 WG2 ; ISO TC207 SC1 ; ISO TC279 WG1 & WG3)
Smart Cities/Communities (ISO/IEC JTC1 WG 11 Smart Cities ; ETSI TC ATTM WG AT2 & WG SDMC)
Policy & SME Representation work
The European DIGITAL SME Alliance secretariat is also actively involved in several standardisation policy work streams or bodies, representing the voices of SMEs in ICT standardisation.
As a founding member of SBS, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance is responsible for its ICT sectoral approach.
DIGITAL SME actively participates in different of the Forum’s policy workstreams, with an overall aim towards enhanced cooperation between all stakeholders for the benefit of SMEs across Europe. Better alignment is crucial for the better use and uptake of standards for fruitful government policies, which can then further be leveraged and coordinated at international level. In November 2023, DIGITAL SME also signed the High-Level Forum Pledge on Standards Education, committing to a set of initiatives promoting the uptake of standardisation work by future generations.
ICT Standardisation I Task Force Rolling Plan
The European DIGITAL SME Alliance has actively been involved in these two circles in the last years, on behalf of Small Business Standards (SBS) as responsible for the implementation of its ICT sectoral approach.
On 29 November 2022, Massimo Vanetti - DIGITAL SME expert and Chair of its Working Group Standards - was re-elected Vice Chair of ETSI’s General Assembly until 31 December 2024. The European DIGITAL SME Alliance’s Innovation Director, Justina Bieliauskaite, is also an ETSI Board member. Collectively, they drive forward inclusiveness reforms in ETSI’s managing bodies.
Parallelly to this representation work, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance is also directly involved as project leaders in ETSI’s STF628 – a standardisation task force designed to create common grounds and make digital twins interoperable.
The European DIGITAL SME Alliance is a member of the RED Expert Group (EG RE) since 2021. The EG RE is a European Commission-led stakeholder group tasked with enabling the implementation of the directive. In it, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance’s central focus is to enable digital SMEs to create a horizontal market which is independent, avoiding lock-in thanks to a disaggregation of hardware and software.
on Artificial Intelligence
In July 2023, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance was admitted in the committee as liaison organisation. With its presence there, it supports the work of its already engaged experts, and further promotes SME-inclusive artificial intelligence standards under development.
