OpenForum Europe Challenges Governments to Walk the Open Format Walk

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Sep 15, 2014 4:39 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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It seems like for governments, openness is one of those things that "says easy, does hard"

OpenForum Europe, an advocacy group focusing on IT openness in government, issued a press release earlier today announcing its launch of a new public Internet portal. At that site, anyone can report a government page that offers a document intended for collaborative use for downloading if that document is not available in an OpenDocument Format (ODF) compliant version. The portal is called FixMyDocuments.eu, and you can show your support for the initiative (as I have) by adding your hamen here (the first supporter listed is the EU's indominatable digital champion, Neelie Kroes).

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