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Chair, Board of Global Standards
Seat open
Leads the annual review of the TPBOK™ and the validation of exam question banks.
Who may sit: A senior architect or engineering executive with no commercial training or vendor interest.
THE VENDOR-NEUTRAL STANDARD FOR TECHNICAL PRACTITIONERS
About · Governance
The standard is independent by design.
IICTP’s credibility rests on one rule: the people who set the standard and guard the exams must have no commercial stake in the outcome. The board is being formed, and this page shows the seats, what each one does, and who may sit in it.
Standard-settingIndependent
Board of Global Standards (BGS)Independent
Academic & Syllabus CommitteeASC
Assessment Integrity & Ethics BoardAIEB
No commercial training interest · No equity in academies · No commissions on exams
OperationsExecutive management
Executive Management Body (EMB)Certifications · ATPs · Chapters
Structure set out in the IICTP operating blueprint.
Founding seats openBoard being formed
TPBOK™ and exam validationPlanned every year
Anti-commercial conflict ruleApplies to every seat
The rule
A strict separation.
To protect the value of the credential, IICTP separates standard-setting from commercial operations.
- 01Independent seats
- 02No exam preparation sales
- 03Published criteria
- Standard-setting. The Board, the Committee and the Integrity Board.
- Operations. The Executive Management Body and its network.
- The wall. Nothing commercial crosses it.
The board seats
Open for nomination.
IICTP has no seated board members yet. These are the seats the board is designed to have, and what each requires. To nominate someone, write to standards@iictp.org.
Chair, Academic & Syllabus Committee
Seat open
Leads the syllabi across the five TPBOK™ domains and the item-writing groups.
Who may sit: A systems or software engineering academic or practitioner with syllabus experience.
Chair, Assessment Integrity & Ethics Board
Seat open
Leads exam validity, proctoring security and investigation of breaches of the Code of Ethics.
Who may sit: A security or assessment specialist, with no role in training or exam preparation.
Board member, emerging technology
Seat open
Advises on AI, LLM and edge topics in the specialized credentials.
Who may sit: A practising engineer or leader in applied AI.
Board member, cloud and infrastructure
Seat open
Advises on cloud architecture content and its yearly review.
Who may sit: A practising cloud or platform architect.
Independent governance counsel
Seat open
Advises on separation rules, conflicts of interest and compliance.
Who may sit: A lawyer experienced in standard-setting or non-profit governance.
Institutional organs
Four bodies, one framework.
The bodies through which IICTP will manage standard-setting, examination integrity and growth of the network.
BGS
Board of Global Standards
Seat: openIndependent advisory panel that will review the TPBOK™ and validate exam question banks each year.
ASC
Academic & Syllabus Committee
Seat: openWill formulate, update and ratify the syllabi across all 5 TPBOK™ domains and direct the item-writing groups.
AIEB
Assessment Integrity & Ethics Board
Seat: openWill maintain exam validity, monitor proctoring security and investigate breaches of the IICTP Code of Ethics.
EMB
Executive Management Body
Being assembledWill run day-to-day operations, manage Authorized Training Partners, oversee chapters and maintain the verification registry.
Standard operating procedures
How the standard will be maintained.
To protect assessment validity, the 10 credentials are designed to be recalibrated every year under written Standard Operating Procedures.
- 01
Annual question bank re-calibration
Each examination item is designed to be analyzed for discrimination index, difficulty curve and current relevance before it is approved for proctored testing.
- 02
Strict academic independence
No member of the Board of Global Standards or an exam-writing group may author commercial test-prep courses or instruct Authorized Training Partner cohorts.
- 03
Verification by design
Credentials are designed to carry a signed record and a decentralized identifier (DID), so an employer can check them without asking IICTP staff.
Want to nominate someone for a founding seat?
See how the Executive Management Body is designed to put the TPBOK™ standard into practice: managing the Authorized Training Partner network and coordinating regional chapters.