[kanchilug] Journey towards freedom: India
- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:04:24 +0530
Hi friends,
As a follow-up to the Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, the
Department of Information Technology has published the "Interoperability
Framework for E-Governance in India (IFEG)."
ODF and OGG are listed as the standards approved for e-governance in
India. A copy of the IFEG can be downloaded from below
http://egovstandards.gov.in/public-review/egscontent.2010-12-28.3570952294
/at_download/file
How this will help?
-> No Vendor lock-in[1]
-> Approx. 22404 INR of Indian tax payers money will be saved for not
using buggy proprietary office suites and vendor lock-in file format(ex.
doc) in government agencies.
-> Usage of Open/LiberOffice.org in all government agencies can be
encouraged.
-> ODT, ODP, ODS, ODG, ODF, OGG, OGV, will be the mandatory file formats
for Document, Presentation, Spread sheet, Drawing, Mathematical formulae &
equations, Audio, Video, respectively.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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