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@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@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@google.com>, Zacheus Mwatha <zimwatha@kebs.org>, jsevilla@strathmore.edu, JOHNSONM@za.ibm.com, cakunga@virtualcity.co.ke, chetan@skytechafrica.com, dofisi@cskonline.org, dkamiri@kenyalaw.org, michael.owuor@manageworks.co.ke, sammy@skytechafrica.com, mail@cskonline.org, bremack1@yahoo.com, iondieki@vegasoftware.com, peterk@sdae.co.ke, sammynjuguna@hotmail.com, edgar.kioga@wfp.org, keziah@cskonline.org, jkimilu@icsit.jkuat.ac.ke, samuel.kuria@kenya-airways.com, Emmanuel.Birech@microsoft.com, emailsignet@mailcan.com, edgar.okioga@gmail.com, pmwele@gmail.com, csk@nbi.ispkenya.com, vawuor2001@yahoo.com, waiganjo@uonbi.ac.ke, Jeremy Allison <jra@google.com>, Joseph Mucheru <jmucheru@google.com>, Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com>, Lucy <lucym@za.ibm.com>, Okoth Monica <okothm@kebs.org>, Wambua Amos <wambuaa@kebs.org> Cc: mwatha_zacs@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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