Denmark mandates open standards by 2008
In dramatic fashion the Danish parliament unanimously agreed on making the use of open standards mandatory in national IT solutions and software by 2008 (or ASAP). The decision was made minutes before the parliament left for the summer break and after weeks of intense discussion.
This decision should pave the way for ODF as the official document format in the Danish digital governance. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation will take the first step and all documents from the ministry will be available as ODF by September.
UPDATE: The final discussion is available here: http://tyge.sslug.dk/~jesper/b103.avi (67mb, 30 minutes discussion in Danish)
UPDATE2: Audio only http://www.things.dk/b103.ogg (13mb)
Openize Denmark, Parliament Orders — GotzeBlogged - John Gøtze Archive wrote:
[...] Søren Thing Pedersen’s Denmark mandates open standards by 2008 is accurate enough, but only because mandation can mean many things. I do agree with Søren in his assessment, though. Also, check his site for a link to a video with the 30 minute reading in Parliament. [...]
Posted on 05-Jun-06 at 12:34 am | Permalink
Søren Thing Pedersen » Blog Archive » On the subject of double standards wrote:
[...] As I stated earlier the Danish parliament unanimously agreed on passing resolution B103 to mandate open standards in the digital governance by 2008 (or as soon as technically possible) under a comply or explain policy. The resolution doesn’t mention specific standards. [...]
Posted on 21-Jun-06 at 11:19 pm | Permalink