Once again Japan stands out for technology leadership in Asia. Last week, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry issued its official Interoperability Framework.
It makes open standards -- including the OpenDocument Format (ODF)-- a required element of its procurement rules for technology and e-government.
The main objective of Japan's open standards requirement for procurement: interoperability (both data and process compatibility) and optimizing the value of ICT investments.
The Framework emphasizes a few specific policy points:
* the need to guarantee long-term access and retention of public documents.
* a prohibition on specifying individual products in procurement to avoid lock-in and dependency on non-interoperable products.
* when procuring software, open source software should be considered.
* decisions on software procurement should exclude software from considered based upon its development model or license.
* Preferred data formats are XML-based formats supported by multiple products/vendors with a low degree of dependence upon any single platform or specific technology.
And lastly, at the moment Japan's new Interoperability Framework recognizes only one acceptable document format: OpenDocument Format (ODF).
Categories: openstandards, ODF, Japan
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