Rachid El Mousti, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation

Rachid El Mousti is a Senior Adviser at the Danish IT- and Telecom Agency. Rachid has 11 years experience with large IT-infrastructures impact on business, from the financial, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and governmental sectors.

He is the program manager on the implementation of Parliament Resolution B 103.

Rachid holds a master degree in physics from the Niels Bohr Institute, and has a minor in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen.

Presentation: "History of B103 and ODF,OOXML Panel Discussion"

Track: Public Sector Open Source

Time: Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30

Location: SAS Dania

Abstract:

On 2 June 2006, the Folketing (the Danish Parliament) adopted parliamentary resolution B 103 on the use of open standards for software in the public sector. The resolution directs the Government to launch a number of initiatives to promote open standards.

Among other measures, the Government is asked, by 1 January 2008 or as soon as technically feasible, to introduce and maintain a set of open standards, which will then be part of the basis for developing and procuring IT software in the public sector.

The introduction to the history of B 103 will:

Address the resolution,
Briefly describe the situation prior to the parliament decision,
Go through the early considerations for implementation of the resolution
and
Ending with an up-to-date status of the implementation.

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