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Ecma International is an industry association founded in 1961, dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems.

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Since 1961 and continuing in full force today, Ecma International facilitates the timely creation of a wide range of global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE) standards, for:

• Programming Languages;
• ECMAScript;
• Business Communications;
• Near Field Communications;
• High Rate Wireless Communications;
• Product Safety;
• Environmental Design Considerations;
• Acoustics
• Electromagnetic Compatibilty (EMC);
• Optical Storage;
• Universal 3D open file format;
• Office Open XML Formats;
• Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS).

Ecma has been involved in the development of the concept of "fast tracking" in ISO/IEC JTC 1 and - since its introduction in 1986 - it has been one of the main practitioners of it.

Ecma is driven by industry to meet the needs of industry, generating a healthy competitive landscape based on differentiation of products and services, rather than technology models, generating confidence among vendors and users of new technology.

Latest News

Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2012

Last results of the 102^nd General Assembly held in San Francisco, December 6, 2011

Ecma International mourns the loss of Mike Smith

ISO Focus+: 50 years of ICT collaboration

2nd International Workshop on Standards and Technologies
 in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR)

Change of guards in the management of Ecma TC26 - Acoustics

ANSI congratulates Ecma International on its 50^th Anniversary

Ecma publishes new Standard on Close Proximity Electric Induction Wireless Communications

Ecma International celebrates its 50^th anniversary