International standard

The United States Air Force treats 80 kilometers as the edge of space.

The International Standard, the FAI, and the Karman Line everyone talks about, puts it at 100 kilometers.

And those 20 kilometers matter, because suborbital tourist flights peak right between them.

So a blue origin hop counts under one definition and not the other.

That means looking beyond cost alone towards better performance, innovation, social value, sustainability and resilience.

The Institute is also the custodian of ISO 44001, the International Standard for Collaborative Business Relationship Management.

In this conversation at the ICW headquarters, we connect the findings from my trusted partnerships research with the Institute's new collaboration playbook.

We explore why trust needs to be earned, how leaders create the culture for open and honest conversations, why choosing the right partner matters, and how to turn good intentions at tender stage into a genuine shared way of working once delivery begins.

And this will come in week 11 of this class.

In addition to regulatory documents, we have international standards.

And to define international standards from the ISO, International Standard Organization of the Main Bodies, a standard is a formula that describes the best way of doing something.

Standards are the distilled wisdom of people with expertise in the subject matter and who know the needs of the organizations they represent, people such as manufacturers, sellers, buyers, customers, trade associations, users, or regulators.

So international standards are documents that are written by committees from various sources, from industry, government, and others, and they try to express the best way of doing something.

So these are often known as soft law.

Companies follow them and adhere to them.

India, China, Russia, Brazil, they are very good position in terms of artificial intelligence about new technologies.

We need to be able to create the global standards.

We cannot sit in the back and wait for the global north create standards and impose to us.

So that's another important element of the BRICS countries.