Professor Mogens Kuehn Pedersen will give a keynote address during the "Öppna Ekosystem" conference on Friday 23 April in conference room Insikten in Portalen.
Title:
Open Source and Open Standards: From ideas to politics of an open government ICT platform - the Danish story and its perspectives 2001-2010
Abstract:
In the presentation I outline major decisions in standards, open source and their regulation within standardisation committees, government and in parliament from 2001-2010. Latest, in a decision March 2010 an expert committe is reappointed and commissioned by the minister for IT to recommend new open standards for documents in the public sector granted specified criteria has been fulfilled. Some of the perspectives in the major decisions will be explained and illustrated with examples.
More information about the conference "Öppna Ekosystem" and procedure for registration can be found here (registration required).