Posts Tagged ‘Standardization’

SIS nixes OOXML approval, Voting irregularities, it appears

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

“The Swedish Institute of Standards (SIS) has invalidated the vote that controversially approved the OOXML standard at a meeting this week.”

“The organisation issued a statement saying that it had seen evidence suggesting one of the participants in the workgroup had broken the rules and voted with more than one vote. … ”
“SIS added that it would be impossible to reconvene for a re-run of the ballot ahead of the global vote this weekend, and so it would abstain from that vote.”

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Localization, Standardization and FOSS in Laos: A good example, the way to go …

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Localization is really the way to go to provide access to information technology and lessen the gap of the digital divide. This is what Laos is doing coupled with standardizing content and promoting FOSS. According to our friend Anousak (Anthony) Souphavanh, a leading FOSS advocate in Laos, the government have started to embarked on standardization with a recent activity that includes the policy of “official standard for communication and information exchange in local computer systems” attended by both government and business sector.

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