Open Document Format (ODF) continues to gain global support and is now the standard for document formats for 16 national and 8 provincial governments, including Germany and Uruguay.

According to Jomar Silva, the ODF Alliance Brazil managing director, “ODF is steadily achieving continent-wide support in South America…”. ODF is currently used by the governments in Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, and Misiones, a province in Argentina.

NXS News has supported and followed the progress of ODF as an emerging standard.

You can review the ODF Alliance Annual Report 2008 for more details.