[ossig] News: "Malaysia formally embraces open doc format"

[Maulvi Bakar]

Tahniah!!

Congratulations to all Malaysians!


Regards

Maulvi




On 8/14/07, Hasannudin Saidin <hasan at my.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> "Malaysia formally embraces open doc format"
> http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
>
>
> *Malaysia formally embraces open doc format*
> By *Lynn Tan*<zdnews-asia at cnet.com&Subject=Feedback%20on%20%27Malaysia%20formally%20embraces%20open%20doc%20format%27>,
> ZDNet Asia
> Monday, August 13 2007 09:15 PM
>
> *The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards
> and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.*
>
> The Malaysian Administration Modernization and Management Planning Unit
> (MAMPU) last week issued a tender for a nine-month study to evaluate the
> usage of open standards in its information communications technology (ICT)
> deployment. The study will also look into how the Malaysian public sector
> should migrate to open standards and the ODF, according to the Malaysia Open
> Source Software Alliance (MOSSA).
>
> "The decision taken has been deliberated carefully for a considerable
> amount of time, and much thought process has been put into it," Nor Aliah
> Mohd. Zahri, ICT deputy director general at MAMPU, said in a statement.
>
> "These discussions centered on open formats, particularly as they relate
> to office documents, their importance for the current and future
> accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the
> format options available to us," Nor Aliah explained.
>
> The study will document the benefits of open standards, suggest policies
> and guidelines for achieving openness and provide a roadmap for implementing
> the ODF in Malaysia' public sector, added MOSSA.
>
> The country unveiled its intentions to *consider the ODF as a national
> standard for office documents*<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39378906,00.htm>in July last year. A month later, Hasannudin Saidin, a member of
> *Sirim* <http://www.sirim.my/>, the country's standards development
> agency, said on his *blog*<http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/07/odf_proposed_to.html>that the proposal would have to gain approval from a higher-level committee
> within Sirim before it could proceed.
>
> In July this year, *Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific
> region* <http://www.odfalliance.org/news.php> to embrace open software
> standards. Last August, the *United Nations urged*<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39380446,00.htm>countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
>
> *Published by OASIS*<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39276747,00.htm>(the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards),
> the ODF--or Open Document Format for Office Applications--is an XML-based
> open standard, enabling any office software to format, save and exchange
> file documents such as spreadsheets, databases and text.
>
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