Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation (AMA) is asking citizens to comment on several open standards, including document formats PDF, ODF, interoperability standards, standards for geographic information systems and standards for electronic invoicing. Comments are welcome until the end of this month.

Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation (AMA) is asking citizens to comment on several open standards, including document formats PDF, ODF, interoperability standards, standards for geographic information systems and standards for electronic invoicing. Comments are welcome until the end of this month.

The consultation is part of the country's law on open standards, adopted in April. This law requires a list and some rules on open standards and AMA is using the consultation to get citizen’s comments. It will result in a regulation on National Digital Interoperability.

Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation (AMA) is asking citizens to comment on several open standards, including document formats PDF, ODF, interoperability standards, standards for geographic information systems and standards for electronic invoicing. Comments are welcome until the end of this month.

The consultation is part of the country's law on open standards, adopted in April. This law requires a list and some rules on open standards and AMA is using the consultation to get citizen’s comments. It will result in a regulation on National Digital Interoperability.

On 7 June 2011, the Portuguese Open Source Business Association (Associação de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas - ESOP, in Portuguese) organised an event under the theme of ‘Open Source and Open Standards in the Public Administration - Contribution to the growth of the Portuguese economy’. Politicians in attendance reached a cross-party consensus on the issue of open source and open standards in the Public Administration (PA).

On 7 June 2011, the Portuguese Open Source Business Association (Associação de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas - ESOP, in Portuguese) organised an event under the theme of ‘Open Source and Open Standards in the Public Administration - Contribution to the growth of the Portuguese economy’. Politicians in attendance reached a cross-party consensus on the issue of open source and open standards in the Public Administration (PA).

On 7 June 2011, the Portuguese Open Source Business Association (Associação de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas - ESOP, in Portuguese) organised an event under the theme of ‘Open Source and Open Standards in the Public Administration - Contribution to the growth of the Portuguese economy’. Politicians in attendance reached a cross-party consensus on the issue of open source and open standards in the Public Administration (PA).

Portugal's parliament adopted a law last Wednesday requiring the country's public administrations to use open standards, including for their electronic documents.

Portugal's parliament adopted a law last Wednesday requiring the country's public administrations to use open standards, including for their electronic documents.

According to TEK, a Portuguese IT news site, the law requires public administration's IT systems to provide for the use of open standards. Portugal's government organisations will now be required to implement open standards in all digital documents that they publish, exchange, and archive.

Members of the European Parliament and their assistants are participating in this year's Document Freedom Day, a 'grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general', according to an announcement on the organisation's website. The three are hosting several presentations, in the Paul-Henri Spaak building of the European Parliament in Brussels, on Wednesday.

Members of the European Parliament and their assistants are participating in this year's Document Freedom Day, a 'grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general', according to an announcement on the organisation's website. The three are hosting several presentations, in the Paul-Henri Spaak building of the European Parliament in Brussels, on Wednesday.

The Administration of the Tagus Valley Hydrographical Region, Portugal, published on its website a case study about the application of an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software for the management of water resources in the country.

The Administration of the Tagus Valley Hydrographical Region, Portugal, published on its website a case study about the application of an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software for the management of water resources in the country.

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Two left-wing political parties in the Portuguese parliament want to make the use of open standards mandatory for public administrations. Next week Friday, the parliament will discuss two motions, filed by the Left Bloc, with sixteen of the 230 seats in the parliament, and the Portuguese Communist Party, which has thirteen seats.

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Two left-wing political parties in the Portuguese parliament want to make the use of open standards mandatory for public administrations. Next week Friday, the parliament will discuss two motions, filed by the Left Bloc, with sixteen of the 230 seats in the parliament, and the Portuguese Communist Party, which has thirteen seats.

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Public administrations in Portugal could save about a hundred million Euro per year, by increasing their use of open source software, estimates the Portuguese Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda), the country's fourth largest political party.

It has submitted budget proposals to the government, that call for the use of this type of software. "Bloc proposes the use of free software in public administration", the political party writes in an article published on its website this week.