''' "International Organization for Standardization" is better known as ''ISO'' '''. It has lots of influence over governments, see WikiPedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO.

ISO has working relationships with other standard setting institutions such as ANSI (US based), ECMA (European)


Some of the ISO influences at WardsWiki include:
* OpenSystemsInterconnect
* IsoNineThousand
* StandardGeneralizedMarkupLanguage (father of ExtensibleMarkupLanguage)
* IsoSecurity
* TopicMaps
* ?? programming languages

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Note: ISO is '''not''' an acronym; it comes from the Greek word ''ίσος'' (isos), meaning "equal".