Strategies for Landing an Oracle DBA Job as a Fresher
The case of OOXML in Africa
1. A Standards Story World IT Forum Addis Ababa 22-24 August 2007 J. Philipp Schmidt University of the Western Cape United Nations University MERIT [email_address]
3. Key issue related to standards is participation Good standards enable participation Open processes enable participation that leads to good standards
28. Proposed OOXML ECMA - ISO DIS29500 Fast-tracked (6 months) During first phase many countries signalled contradictions
29. There are some problems: - too long to review in short time - tied to legacy formats - questions about patents - duplicates W3C standards - calendaring bugs - culturally biased (Weekends)
30. The discussion is not just about one particular standard, but about much broader issues of how we create good standards
39. ... but this is also a story of Dorcas, Gbenga, Judy, Alice, Solomon, AhA, Sunday, Omo, Igor, Benjamin, Dorothy, Dawit, Abebe, Nnenna, Ben, Dhouha, David, and many others ...
40. ... forming a network of (civil society) organisations that can support and engage with their national standards bodies