[kictanet] ADOPTION OF ISO/IEC 26300 AND ISO/IEC 29500

Mon Dec 8 13:36:00 EAT 2008

Dear All,

As documents and services are increasingly transformed from paper to
electronic form, there is a growing problem that governments and their
constituents as well as private enterprises may not be able to access,
retrieve and use critical records, information and documents in the future.
To enable the public and private sector to have greater control over and
direct management of their own records, information and documents, it is
important that we adopt and advance the use of the OpenDocument Format
(ODF).

It is important that all policymakers, IT administrators, decision mankers
(for both public and private) advance the benefits and opportunities of the
OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government and private enterprise
information, records and documents are accessible across platforms and
applications, even as technologies change today and in the future.

Thanks to KEBS for moving Kenya forward on this.

Kindly take two minutes to review and complete the document for adoption.
Most importantly, remember to submit your signed form back to KEBS.

Thanks Alex for sharing this.

Regards,
Muthoni

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> I am forwarding this as requested on the message body.
>
> Please direct any inquiries to the KEBS staffer copied.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alex Gakuru
>
> PS:
> Walubengo is copied to ensure this larger-than-40k post gets bounced.
> AG
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Zacheus Mwatha <zimwatha at kebs.org>
> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM
> Subject: ADOPTION OF ISO/IEC 26300 AND ISO/IEC 29500
> To: Zaheda Bhorat <zaheda at google.com>, Zacheus Mwatha
> <zimwatha at kebs.org>, jsevilla at strathmore.edu, JOHNSONM at za.ibm.com,
> cakunga at virtualcity.co.ke, chetan at skytechafrica.com,
> dofisi at cskonline.org, dkamiri at kenyalaw.org,
> michael.owuor at manageworks.co.ke, sammy at skytechafrica.com,
> mail at cskonline.org, bremack1 at yahoo.com, iondieki at vegasoftware.com,
> peterk at sdae.co.ke, sammynjuguna at hotmail.com, edgar.kioga at wfp.org,
> keziah at cskonline.org, jkimilu at icsit.jkuat.ac.ke,
> samuel.kuria at kenya-airways.com, Emmanuel.Birech at microsoft.com,
> emailsignet at mailcan.com, edgar.okioga at gmail.com, pmwele at gmail.com,
> csk at nbi.ispkenya.com, vawuor2001 at yahoo.com, waiganjo at uonbi.ac.ke,
> Jeremy Allison <jra at google.com>, Joseph Mucheru <jmucheru at google.com>,
> Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com>, Lucy <lucym at za.ibm.com>, Okoth Monica
> <okothm at kebs.org>, Wambua Amos <wambuaa at kebs.org>
> Cc: mwatha_zacs at yahoo.com
>
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>
>
> There are requests which have been received to adopt the above two
> international standards.
>
>
>
> Attached are self explanatory letters and adoption proposal forms
> which you are kindly requested to complete and return to us for
> processing. Kindly note that the form MUST BE SIGNED AND STAMPED
> otherwise it won't be taken into account during processing. You are
> free to use any mode of transmission (fax/email/post/hand
> delivery/etc) as long as the forms reaches us not later than the due
> date. Any ballots received after the deadline will be disregarded.
>
>
>
> You are free to forward this information to as many stakeholders as
> possible since we need a national response to this matter.
>
>
>
> Finally, if you forward to any stakeholder or group of stakeholders,
> kindly copy me the mail so that i may have a database of all those
> that received the information (if you use bcc it won't be of much help
> to me).
>
>
>
> Kind regards.
>
>
>
> Mwatha Z I (Mr.)
>
> Kenya Bureau of Standards
>
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