Entries from Trond's Opening Standard tagged with 'open standards'
Visby Declaration is Open
This week, I spent two days on the wonderful Gotland island in Sweden at the Visby Agenda, a conference on Europe's future IT policy. Well spent, it turns out, since the Visby Declaration, i.e., the Swedish Presidency's conference conclusions, strongly...
Setting the Standards High
Last week, Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, spoke on Setting the standards high at the Harvard Club of Belgium. She said some good things. In essence, standards are good because they create the level playing field on which...
Leadership From Below by Software Developers
Developers have some core attitudes that are deeply shaping contemporary society. They foreshadow a society built on leadership from below, where leadership is less hierarchical. In this new, somewhat individualistic world, paradoxically, collaboration and standardization lay the foundation for the...
Digital Competitiveness
The EU leads the US on broadband and aims to become the leader in Digital Competitiveness. With these notions in mind, Commissioner Vivian Reding launches a consultation on the future EU policy in the IT domain, according to yesterday's EU...
The Transformational Potential of Software Standards
Let me first make a preamble of some importance to what I am about to say. The preamble is: the Internet is a software phenomenon. The extraordinary growth provided by the Internet platform is unmatched, think of companies, consumer products,...
Improving Government Access Through The Web
This week, the W3C's eGovernment Interest Group published a good document called Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web, describing the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to apply 21st century capabilities...
Cloud Manifestos, Open Standards and Pockets
Amid the requisite dose of controversy, leaks, and hypocrisy in order to make a bit of a splash, the Cloud Computing Manifesto was launched today. The aim seems to be to lay down the law of the clouds. Is this...
“The Future Of IT policy In A Challenging Economic Climate
Today, we held a seminar for the i2010 unit in the European Commission's DG Information Society and Media in Brussels, Belgium on: “The Future of IT policy in a challenging economic climate”. After a short Introduction by Fred-Arne Ødegaard, National...
Digital Britain released this week
Digital Britain, an action plan developed by Stephen Carter, the first Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, might be full of words about innovation, does not do very much for open standards. This is discouraging, since a strong policy on...
Browser wars—still going strong?
Thee European Commission has, again, issued a Statement of Objections (SO) against Microsoft finding that The evidence gathered during the investigation leads the Commission to believe that the tying of Internet Explorer with Windows, which makes Internet Explorer available on...
China—third largest economy—to shut down global IT industry?
The Financial Times this week reports that China becomes the world's third largest economy, bypassing Germany, with the new Chinese statistics published recently. While that is slightly surprising, it is not unexpected. In fact, projections are now for China to...
The Future of Business is Open Standards
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The Open Document Format Sweeps Across 16 Governments
In another victory for open standards, 16 governments now require the use of Open Document Format, according to Information Week, see Open Document Format Has Been Accepted By 16 Governments (2 January 2009). Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan,...
EU-Japan Collaboration on Open Standards
Today, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced a Technology Reference Model for Japan's government procurement. The approach builds on open standards. The announcement also makes the close cooperation between Japan and the EU on using open...
Software Industry Equals Open Standards
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The Future of the Internet - Part I
Yesterday I attended the event "Towards the digital world in 2025” at the European Parliament, an European Internet Foundation meeting in the European Parliament with Commissioner of Information Society and Media Viviane Reding and a bunch of Parliamentarians. MEP Erika...
MEPs call for legal inquiry on Parliament lock-in
At yesterday's European Parliament petition hearing the issue of lock-in was in focus. As it turns out, the Parliament's new Parliament TV does not follow open standards. Moreover, MEPs are currently unable to exchange, send or receive open standards based...
New Article: The Momentum for Open Standards
Openforum Europe says Standards Are Achieving Momentum and Creating Innovation (press release today, 3 November 2008). According to an article published today in the European Journal of ePractice no.5 (2008), Open Standards are now not only achieving significant momentum in...
The Case for Open Standards
Yesterday, I presented to the OFE Executive Council in London about the work of OFE's Standards Special Interest Group, with a very clear message: there is a good case for Open Standards. 31oct2008 SigpublicView SlideShare presentation or Upload your...
New Study: Public Sector Breaches EU Directives when Procuring Software
This is mind-boggling stuff. Public sector officials across Europe regularly breach EU Directives by mentioning brand names like “Microsoft” that are in fact trademarks in procurement documents, according to a study (press release, full study) by the not-for-profit organization Openforum...
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