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

[Ir. Tejinder Singh]

this is great news....

tejinder

On 8/14/07, Maulvi Bakar <maulvi at maulvi.net> wrote:
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> Tahniah!!
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> Congratulations to all Malaysians!
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> Regards
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> Maulvi
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> On 8/14/07, Hasannudin Saidin < hasan at my.ibm.com> wrote:
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> > "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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