论文信息 - Open standards and accessibility to information: a critical analysis of OOXML in India

Open standards and accessibility to information: a critical analysis of OOXML in India

Present paper attempts to examine the social impact of adoption of Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML), a proposed open standard format for documents, in India. It suspects that adoption will increase the cost to access information. It highlights the need for adopting open standard in the ICT developmental efforts and tackling technological lock-in.

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