Call for Asia to Adopt ODF

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 10, 2006 @02:03AM from the it's-all-about-the-file-formats dept.

Malek Indiam points out an article on ZDNet Asia about a push for Asian governments to wean themselves from proprietary file formats. From the article: "An official from the United Nations has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the OpenDocument format. Sunil Abraham, manager of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) at the U.N., told ZDNet Asia that most governments in the region have already stated their support for open standards, through their respective government interoperability frameworks. He hopes that governments in the region will now extend that support and "seriously consider" the OpenDocument Format (ODF)."

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Re:Better use of UN time by Anonymous Coward · 2006-08-10 06:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well they're doing a good job of irritating Israel by calling for a cease fire and move to negotiate with Hezzbolah, despite Hezzbolah's stated objective of eliminating Israel and that there IS no option for negotiation with Jews or friends of Jews.

The UN is a worthless organization, but they do serve a purpose: to show how stupid an ineffective a global governing body with no checks and balances really is. It's a perfect example of a bad example.