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ACTA IMEKO 
July 2012, Volume 1, Number 1, 2 
www.imeko.org 

 

ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org  July 2012 | Volume 1 | Number 1 | 2 

A message from the President of IMEKO 

Dae‐Im Kang 

KRISS ‐ Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, 267 Gajeong‐ro, Yuseong‐gu, Daejeon 305‐340, Republic of Korea 

 

 

Keywords: IMEKO; ACTA; President; message; global metrology community 

Citation: Dae‐Im Kang, A message from the President of IMEKO, Acta IMEKO, vol. 1, no. 1, article 2, July 2012, identifier: IMEKO‐ACTA‐01(2012)‐01‐02 

Editor: Paul Regtien, Measurement Science Consultancy, The Netherlands 

Copyright: © 2012 IMEKO. This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits 
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited 

Corresponding author: Dae‐Im Kang, e‐mail: dikang@kriss.re.kr 

 

 
Colleagues and readers from all over the world, it is a 

pleasure and a privilege for me to extend my heartfelt 
congratulations on the first publication of ACTA. Since its 
establishment in 1958, IMEKO has made substantial 
contributions to the advancement of measurement technology, 
which is indispensable for developing industry, science and 
technology and enhancing the quality of human life. As the 
president of IMEKO, I have great confidence in and respect 
for the Confederation for such proactive contributions, which I 
am sure will ever continue in close partnership with all of its 
member organizations. 

We live in a world of ever-increasing interdependency and 
thus of shared global challenges – the challenges of sustainable 
economic growth, of improving health care for all our people, 
of food safety and energy security, of clean accessible water, of 
the environmental conservation, etc. New technologies and 
discoveries will be essential to addressing the challenges our 
interconnected world is facing. The science of measurement 
and its applications serve as one of the most important tools 
that can deliver workable solutions to the global agenda. 
Therefore, this is a particularly vital moment for academia, 

researchers, and engineers to work more closely together by 
sharing ideas and vision on metrology than ever before. I would 
like to take this opportunity to encourage all of the members of 
IMEKO and outstanding experts in metrology to take a leading 
role to enable enduring advancement of measurement science 
and technology ranging from fundamental to the cutting-edge 
areas. 

All in these efforts, I am confident that ACTA will be of 
great assistance by being a fresh new arena in timely sharing a 
lot of insightful research achievements in metrology that is 
essential to the growth of the IMEKO and the global 
metrology community as well. On behalf of IMEKO, I would 
like to thank Prof. Paul P. L. Regtien, Vice President for 
Publications and all my colleagues at IMEKO who have done 
their best to make the birth of ACTA possible. Last but not 
least, I hope that ACTA will also be instrumental to keep the 
global metrology community working in great harmony in days 
to come. Once again, I would like to express my sincere 
congratulations and best wishes for the everlasting success of 
ACTA. 

 
 

 

Here is a message from the President of IMEKO, to colleagues and readers of ACTA IMEKO from all over the world, celebrating the 
publication of the first issue of the journal.