British Govt makes Open Documet Format official

If you live in the UK, you'll soon be able to fill out government paperwork with your freedoms intact. The British government announced last week that Open Document Format (ODF), HTML, and PDF will be the official file formats used by all government agencies.

I hope we (Kenya Govt) follow suit soon because the .doc and .docx standards just slow down things. I use libreoffice all the times and ocassionally I have to export to these proprietary forms to share with other users.
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