1) The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international organization with 164 national standards body members that develops voluntary consensus-based international standards.
2) ISO was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It began in 1926 as the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations.
3) ISO standards cover a wide range of industries and technologies and aim to harmonize technical specifications of products and services globally.