OPEN STANDARD

John J. Macasio
Technology Officer, StepDeskPhil

31 March – 03 April 2009, Matabungkay Beach Resort & Hotel, Lian, Batangas
 PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES

• To describe the core principles and

characteristics on open standard,
• To identify the business ready
applications that implement open
standard.
 THE CHALLENGE

• Open Source for Education (0S4ED) is

not just about no-cost technology.

• …It is capability building to live-out the

principles of open standard in the
acquisition, development, distribution,
and utilization of software and content
in the community of digital technology
users, developers, mentors, social
marketers, and integrators.
 THE CHALLENGE

• Open Source for Education (0s4ed) is

not just about no-cost technology.

• …It calls for competencies that allow

work, creativity, participation, and
learning to happen at any kind of
technology operating platforms,
functions branding, data file types,
product attributions, and pricing
schemes.
 THE CHALLENGE

• Open Source for Education (0s4ed) is

not just about no-cost technology.

• …It enables digital inclusion that

concretizes information for all,
education for all, e-citizenship for all,
and productivity for all through the
integrative use of information and
communications technology for
development.
 OPEN STANDARD: DESCRIPTION

• Open Standards are standards made

available to the general public and
are developed (or approved) and
maintained via a collaborative and
consensus driven process.
• "Open Standards" facilitate
interoperability and data exchange
among different products or services
and are intended for widespread
adoption.
 OPEN STANDARD: ISSUES

• Competency Building:
– Interoperatibility Requirements versus
– Commercial Vendor Specifications
• Technology Development and Use:
– Dependency and Exclusivity versus
– Choice and Sharing
• Technology Acquisition and Support:
– Lock-In versus
– Open-Option
 PRINCIPLES & CHARACTERISTICS
• AVAILABILITY
• MAXIMIZE END-USER 1. Open Meeting
CHOICE 2. Consensus
• NO ROYALTY 3. Due Process
• NO DISCRIMINATION 4. Open IPR
• EXTENSION OR SUBSET 5. One World
6. Open Change
• PREDATORY PRACTICES
7. Open Documents
• -BrucePerens
8. Open Interface
9. Open Use
10.On-going Support
-Ken Krechmer
 APPLICATIONS

Word Processing
Calculation Worksheet Authoring OPEN STANDARD
Multimedia Presentation & ACTUALIZATION
Video Production Publishing
Image Processing
LICENSING SCHEMES
Desktop & Web Publishing
Communication
Internet Browsing & OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
E-Mail & Messaging Collaboration
WebCasting FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES
e-Citizen
Net Telephony
Card
Digital Safety DATA & FILE TYPES
Anti-Virus & Spam &
Security PROTOCOL REFERENCES
Back-up Utilities
Encryption
SECURITY REFERENCES
e-Commerce e-Services
e-Learning Systems
Application & Databases
 PRODUCTS

OoO WRITE OPEN STANDARD

OoO CALC Authoring SAMPLES
OoO IMPRES &
AVIDEMUX, WINKS Publishing
GIMP, INKSCAPE GPL, CC, Public Domain
SCRIBUS, KOMPOZER
Communication Linux, Windows, Macintosh
FIREFOX, CHROME &
THUNDERBIRD Collaboration I/O Interfaces, Procedures
e-PRESENCE
e-Citizen
TRIXBOX
Card
doc, odf, png, avi, html
Digital Safety
CLAM AV, WINPOOH & TCP/IP, POP3
COBIAN, 7ZIP Security
AXCRYPT Encrytion

ZEN CART e-Services

A-TUTOR, MOODLE Systems
PHP, AJAX, MYSQL
End of Presentation

johnmacasio@onecitizen.net
www.onecitizen.net