[odf-discuss] UNESCO report endorses OpenDocument

[Lars D. Noodén]

Great find!

BTW the Harvard document mentions that the Kingdom of Jordan developed an 
e-Government Service Integration a Interoperability Framework (IIF) which 
addresses the need for open standards and, perhaps, specifically 
OpenDocument.

Anyone have the link for Jordan's IIF or a summary?

A pair of tenders [1] from Jordan's Ministry of Information and 
Communications Technology contain, among other tidbits, the following 
lines:

 	 In order to prevent vendor lock-in, all of the above
 	components will be built solely upon open standards, such
 	as Web Services, SOAP or Liberty Alliance. Consequently,
 	all service providers will have to conform to these
 	standards in order to interoperate with other components
 	within the e-Government framework.

The tenders indicate that Jordan is actually walking the walk and not just 
talking the talk.

-Lars

[1]
Tender # 7/2006/ك ح:
  http://moict.gov.jo/MoICT/Tenders/7gov/InfoSec%20Eligibility%20RFP.pdf

Tender # 3/ك ح/2006:
  http://www.moict.gov.jo/MoICT/Tenders/ELECTRONIC%20PAYMENT%20GATEWAY%20SERVICES/PG%20RFP%20V%201.0.pdf

Lars Noodén
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