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Germany committing to ODF and open document standards


Digital sovereignty is becoming vitally important. 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 (and the default […]

Posted in LibreOffice, Open Document Format By Mike Saunders On April 29, 2025 If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. The IT Planning Council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly used in public administration and become the standard for document exchange by 2027.

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