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India was recently elected to serve as the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) vice president for the years 2023–25.
About
- Objective: To prepare and publish worldwide standards for all electrical, electronic, and associated technologies. It is the foremost organisation in the world for this purpose. These are referred to as “electrotechnology” as a whole.
- Type: It is an international, non-profit membership organisation that unites 173 nations and organises the efforts of 20,000 experts worldwide.
- Administrative: Geneva, Switzerland
- It is a membership organisation that is not for profit.
- Its supreme governance entity, the Standardization Management Board (SMB), is in charge of all technical policy issues.
- There are 170 member nations in it.
- It contributes to achieving all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals;
- It played a key role in the development of various units of measurement, including the gauss, hertz, and weber;
- It also first proposed the Giorgi System, a set of standards that later evolved into the SI system.