South Africa Adopts ODF as a Government Standard

Open Document format (ODF) became an official standard for South African government communications. South Africa's MIOS (Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government) now contains an explicit definition of open standards as well as the inclusion of the ISO Open Document Format. It goes further on stating that when faced with a choice of standards, the most open would be chosen. This is a big step forward, as previous versions of the MIOS had included vendor-specific formats.

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