ICT Standards Committee

Introduction 

NSAI/TC 02 Information and Communication Technology Standards Consultative Committee (ICT SCC) provides a strategic and representative forum for national experts and stakeholder groups to engage in standardization activities at a National, European and International level.  

NSAI/TC 02 also serves as the Irish national mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology and as the parent body to a suite of national subcommittees that in turn mirror European (CEN/CENELEC) and International (ISO/IEC) committees engaged in standardization in the ICT domain, see Table 1 for more information. 

Scope of NSAI/TC 02 ICT SCC 

1. To advise NSAI on standardization matters related to information and communications technology; 
2. To consider European and International ICT standardization programmes and national participation in such programmes; and
3. To facilitate national stakeholder participation in European and International ICT standardization programmes. 

Committee Name	Committee Title
ISO/IEC JTC 1 and Subcommittees	Information Technology
ISO/TC 307	Blockchain and Distributed ledger technologies
CEN/TC 225	Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Technologies
CEN/TC 428	ICT Professionalism and Digital competence
CEN/TC 434	Electronic invoicing
CEN/TC 440	Electronic Public Procurement
CEN/CENELEC JTC 13	Cybersecurity and Data Protection
CEN/CENELEC JTC 19	Blockchain and Distributed ledger technologies
CEN/CENELEC JTC 21	Artificial Intelligence

Table 1 European and International Committees mirrored by NSAI/TC 02 - ICTSCC 

ICT SCC - Priority Areas

• Artificial Intelligence  
• Internet of Things 
• IT Governance  
• Cybersecurity and Data protection    

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International & European Standards Engagement 

As a global community of experts ISO/IEC JTC 1 develop worldwide Information and Communication Technology standards for business and consumer applications.  The JTC 1 operating structure currently comprise of twenty-two subcommittees and a number of advisory groups.  NSAI is currently active in ten JTC 1 subcommittees as a participating member and a further nine subcommittees in an observer role. 

European standardization work represents a very important activity as many of the standards projects engaged in have been supported by or are directly mandated by the European Commission to facilitate the implementation of policy and legislative instruments, examples of which include the European framework for ICT professionalism and the eInvoicing directive.  Emerging policy and legislative areas covering Cybersecurity, Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence are also similarly being considered through the establishment of the European standards committees CEN/CLC JTC 13 and CEN/CLC JTC 21.  

Through its Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) for ICT Standardization, the European Commission has established a forum comprising of  representatives of national authorities from EU Member States & EFTA countries, European and international ICT standardisation bodies, and stakeholder organisations that represent industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and consumers. 

In its multi annual Rolling Plan for ICT standardization the MSP provides a unique bridge between EU policies and standardisation activities in the field of information and communication technologies. This allows for increased convergence of standardisation makers' efforts towards achieving EU policy goals. 
 

ICT SCC Structure and Operating Mode 

Membership of ISO/IEC committees are qualified as being that of an observer or a participating member, i.e. actively engaged as a national delegation at subcommittee level or as a contributing expert(s) in a working group(s).  

Table 2 identifies the current ICTSCC structure and participation mode [Participating (P), Observing (O)], together with the European and International committees each of its subcommittee engages with.

ICT SCC	Description	Operating Mode	Mirroring ISO/IEC	Mirroring  CEN/CENELEC
NSAI TC 02	Information and Communication Technologies	(P)	JTC 1
SC 02	Software Engineering	(P)	JTC 1 SC 07
SC 03	Telecommunications, media encoding, and green IT	(O)	JTC 1 SC 06
SC 04	Codes, character sets, and internationalization	(P)	JTC 1 SC 02
SC 06	Generic cabling systems	(P)	JTC 1 SC 25
SC 08	Biometrics	(O)	JTC 1 SC 37
SC 09	Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Techniques	(P)	JTC 1 SC 31	TC 225
SC 10	IT Security Techniques	(P)	JTC 1 SC 27	JTC 13
SC 11	Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms	(P)	JTC 1 SC 38
SC 12	e-Procurement	(P)		TC 434 / TC 440
SC 13	e-Competences and ICT Professionalism	(P)	JTC 1 SC 36	TC 428
SC 14	Document description and processing languages	(O)	JTC 1 SC 34
SC 15	IT Service Management and IT Governance	(P)	JTC 1 SC 40
SC 16	Blockchain and electronic distributed ledger technologies	(P)	TC 1 SC 307	JTC 19
SC 17	IoT and related technologies	(P)	JTC 1 SC 41
SC 18	Artificial Intelligence	(P)	JTC 1 SC 42	JTC 21
SC 19	Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information	(P)	JTC 1 SC 29

 

Further Information 

Highlighted standards from national mirror committees. [pending]

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