On Thursday I’m heading down to London to attend the IEC Centenary Challenge Awards at the IET building on Savoy Place – just at the back of the better-known hotel -and give a talk about why standards matter.

It should be a fun day, with a distinguished audience including professors and students of technology, engineering and business.
It will also give me a chance to catch up with Tom Standage, technology editor of The Economist, who I remember when he was just a fingerling, working on Guardian OnLine back in the day.

It’s not too late to sign up – go to http://conferences.theiet.org/iecawards/ to register.

Keeping the Internet Open...I saw this…...Connecting Clouds...Openness and Innovation...Mark T talking YouView as open platform at #omc2011 – anyone can build to standards...