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ISO is the International Organization for the Standardization, which regulates a series of standards for manufacturing, commerce and communication, in all industrial branches.

ISO is known as both the Organization and the standards established by it to standardize production and control processes in companies and organizations international

The International Organization for Standardization or ISO (which in Greek means "equal") was created in 1947, after World War II and became a body dedicated to promoting the development of international norms and regulations for the manufacture of all products, except those that belong to the branch of electricity and electronics. Thus, quality and safety in all products, while respecting environmental protection criteria.

Currently, it is a network of institutions in 157 countries, operating centrally in Geneva, Switzerland. This headquarters of coordination International has both government delegations and other related entities. Despite its high incidence worldwide, the

participation of these standards is voluntary, as ISO does not have authority to enforce its regulations.

ISO standards serve different aspects of production and trade, but some of them include those that regulate the measurement of paper, names of languages, bibliographic citations, country and currency codes, representation of time and date, quality management systems, languages from programming C and BASIC, software life cycle, requirements regarding competence in laboratories of test and calibration, .odf documents, .pdf documents, failure guarantees on CD-ROMs, information security management systems, and many others.

These standards are so widespread that we can find them in practically all aspects of daily life, protecting the consumer and user of products and services.

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