Hello Leif,
Leif Lodahl a écrit : > Last year the Danish parliament adopted the resolution B 103 about > implementation of open standards for software in the public sector. > > Today the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation released a > report that describes the implementation of the resolution. Here is a > summary in english: http://itst.dk/static/nyhed/English%20summary.pdf . > > In this report, public authorities mean local and regional > administrations, government departments, agencies and directorates. > > The report has been received positive today, because it seems that it > will actually end up with more implementations soon. The report > includes both some very vague parts as well as some very concrete > areas with a very fast implementation. > > The report includes 7 mandatory areas to implemented or planned > implemented on January 1th. 2008. Among the seven mandatory areas is > "Standards for exchanging documents between public authorities (Open > Document Format and Office OpenXML)" > > An open standard is defined as: > "That a standard is open implies that: > > * the standard must be fully documented and publicly available, > * the standard must be freely implementable without economic, > political or legal constraints on its implementation and use, now > or in the future, and > * the standard should be managed and maintained in an open forum via > anopen process (standardization organization)." > > Unfortunately there is no money with the resolution. An overall note > is "...if an economic impact assessment shows that this will not > involve additional costs to the public sector.". As usual... But the public sector, at least in Europe, works very often like that, I'm afraid. Thank you for this report, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
