Hi friends, As a follow-up to the Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, the Department of Information Technology has published the "Interoperability Framework for E-Governance in India (IFEG)."
ODF and OGG are listed as the standards approved for e-governance in India. A copy of the IFEG can be downloaded from below http://egovstandards.gov.in/public-review/egscontent.2010-12-28.3570952294 /at_download/file<http://egovstandards.gov.in/public-review/egscontent.2010-12-28.3570952294%0A/at_download/file> How this will help? -> No Vendor lock-in[1] -> Approx. 22404 INR of Indian tax payers money will be saved for not using buggy proprietary office suites and vendor lock-in file format(ex. doc) in government agencies. -> Usage of Open/LiberOffice.org in all government agencies can be encouraged. -> ODT, ODP, ODS, ODG, ODF, OGG, OGV, will be the mandatory file formats for Document, Presentation, Spread sheet, Drawing, Mathematical formulae & equations, Audio, Video, respectively. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in -- Regards, Arulalan.T Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Experiments In Linux are here http://tuxcoder.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
