The government may favour multiple standards for e-governance projects. To remove unnecessary lock-in of technology, information technology department of Government of India might move away from its earlier stand of supporting a single standard for such projects…
The Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India has drafted a fresh policy on open standards for e-Governance that may lead to a reconsideration of the department
An official from the United Nations (U.N.) has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the Open Document Format (ODF).
The federal government of Belgium plans to switch to the Open Document Format (ODF) by September 2008.
The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of associations, academia and industry dedicated to improve the accessibility to electronic government documents held the first national event in support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) at New Delhi, which will change the way data is managed across the globe.
