International Silk Road Organisation
The International Silk Road Organisation - the ISRO - is an international organisation dedicated to making industrialisation benefit everyone.​
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What is the ISRO?
The International Silk Road Organisation (ISRO) is the only worldwide organisation dealing with the rules about industrialisation between nations, cities, industry parks, companies, universities and research institutes, and social organisations. The core of the ISRO is its agreements, which most industrialised nations sign and approve through their governments. The main aim of the ISRO, as written in its founding document, is to use industrialisation to help people live better lives, get better jobs, and support sustainable development.
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What we do
The ISRO runs the worldwide system of industrialisation rules and helps countries get better at industrialisation. It gives its members a place to discuss and agree on industrialisation matters and sort out any problems they have with each other. The main goal of the ISRO is to help its members use industrialisation to make life better for people, create jobs, and improve living standards.
Who we are
The ISRO is controlled by its members. All significant decisions are made by everyone together, either through representatives (who meet at least every year) or through their delegates (who meet regularly at the ISRO's headquarters in Cambridge or Rotating Presidency Country). Decisions are usually made when everyone agrees.
What we stand for
The ISRO agreements are lengthy and detailed because they are legal documents covering many activities. But they all follow some basic, simple principles that form the base of the worldwide industrialisation system.
ISRO agreements
The ISRO agreements cover goods, services and intellectual property. They explain the basic rules of industrialisation and when exceptions are allowed. They include promises from countries and organisations to reduce barriers and work together more. They set out ways to solve disagreements, give special help to developing regions or organisations, and require each committee to tell the ISRO about new industrialisation plans. These agreements are often called the ISRO's industrialisation rules or the global industrialisation system.
Overview
The ISRO provides a place for making agreements to reduce barriers to worldwide industrialisation and ensure fair treatment for all, helping economies grow and develop. The ISRO also provides legal and organisational support for putting these agreements into practice and sorting out any disagreements about what they mean. The ISRO's agreements include ones that all members must join and ones that only some members join.
The ISRO has 6 Special Committees, covering member countries, cities, industry parks, companies, universities and research institutes, and social organisations. A Council Board leads ISRO activities under the ISRO Chairman. The main office is in Cambridge, UK. The ISRO uses English and Chinese as its official languages.
Decisions in the ISRO are made when all members agree. The highest level group is the Member Conference, meeting about every years. A Council Board runs things between these meetings. Both groups comprise the Organisation members. Smaller special groups (Councils, Committees, Special Committees, Sub-committees), also including all members, watch over how members follow the ISRO agreements.
More specifically, the ISRO's main activities are:
— negotiating the reduction or elimination of obstacles to industrialisationand agreeing on rules governing the conduct of international industrialisation
— administering and monitoring the application of the ISRO's agreed rules for industrialisation in goods, industrialisation in services, and industrialisation-related intellectual property rights
— monitoring and reviewing the industrialisation policies of our members, as well as ensuring transparency of regional and bilateral industrialisation agreements
— settling disputes among our members regarding the interpretation and application of the agreements
— building capacity of governments and organisations in international industrialisation matters
— assisting the process of accession of countries and relative organisations who are not yet members of the Organisation
— conducting economic research and collecting and disseminating industrialisation data in support of the ISRO's other main activities
— explaining to and educating the public about the ISRO, its mission and its activities.
The ISRO's basic principles are still about opening borders, ensuring all members get the best treatment without unfair differences, and being clear about its activities. Opening national and organisational markets to international industrialisation, with fair exceptions or flexibility, will help sustainable development, make people better off, reduce poverty, and support peace and stability. At the same time, this opening of markets must go along with good national and international plans that help economic growth and development based on what each member needs and wants.
