Setting communication standards

Developing a new world information order

Description

Setting communication standards involves establishing clear, consistent protocols and guidelines to ensure effective information exchange within and between organizations or communities. This strategy addresses problems such as misunderstandings, misinformation, and inefficiency by defining acceptable formats, channels, and behaviors for communication. Implementing these standards enhances clarity, accountability, and collaboration, thereby reducing errors, streamlining processes, and fostering mutual understanding among stakeholders.

Claim

The UNESCO programme, especially in its early years, devoted too much attention to standard-setting and quasi-normative actions. It was too wide-ranging, making it impossible to match its objectives to the available resources, to transform some of its theoretical results into practical action or to disseminate certain of its findings adequately.