Venezuela adopts ODF for government
The South American nation of Venezuela is the latest country to adopt the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard. Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally adopted ODF as a standard for the “processing, exchange and storage of documents”.
Venezuela joins a growing list of countries which have adopted the open format as a method for exchanging documents within government and with citizens. These countries include fellow South Americans Uruguay and Brazil, as well as Malaysia, South Africa and Belgium.
The ODF Alliance previously listed 14 national governments and eight provincial governments as having adopted the ODF standard, with Venezuela adding more South American weight to the list.
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October 12th, 2008 @ 1:39 am
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October 28th, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
[...] Avrupa Birliği Rekabetten Sorumlu Komiseri Neelie Kroes’un daha önce yaptığı açıklamalarıyla destek verdiği ODF yoluna hızla devam ediyor. OOXML’nin standartlaşmasını istemeyenler seslerini yükseltirken, Ülkemizde de OOXML karşıtı kampanya Özgürlük İçin Topluluğu önderliğinde devam ediyor. Kaynak: tectonic.co.za [...]