MIT D-Lab is currently in the process of developing a certification process for CCB facilitators.
Meanwhile, in recent months, Google has developed a "certification" process for Android-related products which allows it to delay or deny content companies and other businesses access to the mobile operating system, while giving itself the freedom to develop competing products.
The Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) has developed a certification process for advanced CCE.
In the United States, the authority responsible for developing the highest standard of certification, the American Board of Internal Medicine, has not been interested in developing a certification process for a relatively small aspect of critical care medicine.
Plans are afoot to develop a certification scheme and competency standards for RE installers/designers.
Other panelists were Marius Peters, a research scientist in the MIT Photovoltaics Research Lab who spoke about testing solar cells on campus, and Pamela Greenley, an associate director of MIT's Office of Environment, Health and Safety who explored efforts to develop a green certification process for campus labs.
Another trade group will develop an EHR certification process this year, and next year it will begin ruling on EHRformats from IT vendors.
The United States Department of Agriculture, tasked with creating an "organic" program, was pestered by consumers, farmers, manufacturers and states as it developed a definition, guidelines and a certification process.
BREEAM, a certification process developed in Britain in 1990, now spans more than 50 countries and will soon be announcing its first certification in China, according to Simon Guy, the head of marketing for BRE, which oversees BREEAM (short for BRE Environmental Assessment Method).
Most industries have a trade organization where representatives from multiple companies get together and jointly develop industry standards that lead to a certification process.
