[WSIS CS-Plenary] response from UN on Official Document System

[Rik Panganiban]

Dear Friends,

I just heard back from the UN's Chief of the System Management Section 
(ITSD/OS), Mr. Tony Wilson, responding to our feedback on the ODS 
public server. He reports that his two-person (!) team has been working 
hard to address the browser issues that our people identified, and that 
the javascript was changed on the ODS to allow Mozilla-based browsers 
to work with the ODS.  I can happily confirm that the ODS now works 
with my Safari browser for the Mac OS X.

Regarding a "microsoft conspiracy" he notes that there has been 
significant progress in moving away from Microsoft toward more 
linux-based solutions.  According to Mr. Wilson, they are going to be 
developing an Entreprise Content Management project in the near future, 
so completely re-engineering the existing ODS system seemed a bad use 
of their limited time and resources.

He concludes that he is happy to receive further constructive feedback 
on the ODS.  He can be reached at : wilsont at un.org .

I  thank Mr. Wilson and his team for responding so quickly to our 
concerns and hope we can continue to have a fruitful and mutually 
supportive relationship into the future.  Many of us in civil society 
recognize the tremendous pressure put upon the UN staff to deliver 
results with very limited resources.  Having the ODS publicly and 
freely available is immensely gratifying after years of work and 
lobbying on this issue.

Sincerely,


Rik Panganiban
CONGO

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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations 
(CONGO)
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email: rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
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