OpenDocument (also known as ODF) is a free/libre format for distributing office documents such as spreadsheets, slides, documents, graphs, ect. It is an open standard and an ISO standard.
These projects use OpenDocument.
Massachusetts: in September of 2005 Massachusetts began utilizing ODF formats and became the first state to endorse it for all public records. Sadly, in 2007 it was amended to include Office Open XML. [1]
New York: has requested public comment on the issue.[2]
Argentina: in September of 2007 decided that the Province of Misiones would would mandate ODF usage within the Goverment. It is estimated a million people live in the province. 1
Brazil: As the General Director of ODF Alliance Chapter Brazil declared at the debate hosted at CONSEGI 2008: “the citizen must understand that when they open a government website and the file offered is in a format of a proprietary software, it presupposes that he/she is obligated to have the license of that software, what is unacceptable and out of the law.” [3]
European Commission: In 2014, a statement from the Vice-President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič recommended, “For revisable documents, all European institutions are recommended to support as a minimum two ISO standards, the Open Document Format (ODT) and Office Open XML (OOXML).”[4]
Belgium: In 2006 it was stated all departments msut be able to read ODF formats by September and to exclusively use them for federal agencies.[1]
Croatia: In April of 2008 Croatia approved ODF as a national standard. [1]
Germany: In 2008, Germany declared its rediness to use ODF.[6]
Finland: The Finland Ministry of Justice has used ODF as its main standard since 2007. [1]
Germany: The Federal Foreign Office exclusively uses OpenDocument with over 250 foreign offices doing the same. The cities of Freiburg and Munich have both adopted OpenOffice.org. Many High Courts uses OpenDocument such as Bundesgerichtshof. [1]
Netherlands: The Netherlands uses exclusively free software to read, publish, and exchanging information as of 2009. Where it cannot be used, a reason must be provided. [1]
Norway: It was decided in 2007 that from 2009 forward any documents with the intent for the user to edit them, they must be in ODF format. [1]
United Kingdom: The British Education Communication Technology Agency, BECTA, made a recommendation that “Any office application used by institutions must be able to be saved to (and so viewed by others) using a commonly agreed format that ensures an institution is not locked into using specific software.” In addition, Bristol City Council is using the OpenDocument format across its 5000+ desktop computers. [1]
Slovakia: OpenDocument is listed as well as HTML, XML and PDF as an acceptable format by the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications.[1]
Denmark: In April of 2011, they began to use ODF as the official format for its documents[1]
France: The French government’s general interoperability framework indicates that ODF is the recommended format for office documents within French administrations. [1]
Italy: The Italian standardization organization UNI adopted ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF 1.0) on January 26, 2007 (UNI CEI ISO/IEC 26300:2007). In 2015, the Italian Ministry of Defence announced that it would standardise on ODF and install LibreOffice on 150,000 PCs. [1]
India: The Allahabad High Court in 2006 decided to use The Open Document format for its documents. The states of Kerala and Assam also adopted ODF.[1]
Japan: : In June of 2007 the Japan Goverment demonstrated preference to open standards. [1]
Malaysia: As of April 2008 ODF is mandatory in the Malaysia public sector.[1]
Vietnam: ODF has been a national standard of Vietnam since 2009.[1]
Hong Kong: The Hong Kong annual Interoperability Framework recommend ODF in 2008.[1]
South Korea: ODF is an industry standard as a part of KS X ISO/IEC 26300 in 2007.[1]
Australia: Since 2013 Austrailia has mandated any goverment used apartment suite support Open Document Format 1.1 at minimum.[1]
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