Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
The IT planning council finds that open exchange formats are necessary for the nationwide cooperation and welcomes the decision of the Digital Minister Conference. Open formats and open interfaces are an important building block for the necessary transformation process of public administration in Germany on the way to more digital sovereignty and innovations.
The IT planning council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly being used in public administration and will become the standard for document exchange by 2027. He commissioned the standardization board with the implementation.
The IT planning council also recognizes that the exchange of documents by e-mail is no longer up to date for the preparation and follow-up of conferences for the preparation and follow-up. He commissioned the Fitko to present a concept for providing a collaboration solution up to the 48th session.
This is a big thing actually. Although the phrasing still sounds a bit vague to my ears: “The IT planning council is committed to ensuring that open formats (…) will become the standard for document exchange by 2027” is not the same as “Open formats will become the standard for document exchange by 2027”…
With the current conservative government Germany has, the same that fucked up the country for 15 years kept the country “stable” for 15 years, it sounds like their promise for river internet. What’s German river penetration like nowadays? 5%? After 20 years of “investment”?
Lol. It’s more likely that the US will get a grip and Microsoft or even Apple can swoop in an sell their crap to politicians.
Machine translation of the linked German article:
This is a big thing actually. Although the phrasing still sounds a bit vague to my ears: “The IT planning council is committed to ensuring that open formats (…) will become the standard for document exchange by 2027” is not the same as “Open formats will become the standard for document exchange by 2027”…
With the current conservative government Germany has, the same that
fucked up the country for 15 yearskept the country “stable” for 15 years, it sounds like their promise for river internet. What’s German river penetration like nowadays? 5%? After 20 years of “investment”?Lol. It’s more likely that the US will get a grip and Microsoft or even Apple can swoop in an sell their crap to politicians.
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