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Petition update, 19 August 2008

More details from petition creator

We call on the UK government to:

(1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;

(2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;

(3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.

as adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on 21 May 2008.

Current signatories

John McCreesh, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Matthew Hardy
• Mark Taylor
• Chris Puttick
• Stuart T Johnson
• Phil Driscoll
• Susan Thomas
• Glyn Moody
• Ian Lynch
• John Drinkwater
• Garry Saddington
• James Tyrrell
• Joseph Reeves
• Gerry Gavigan
• John Ingleby
• Richard Smedley
• Paul Alexander
• Sebastian James
• John Talbot
• Peter Bradley
• Walter Jaggli
• greg o'connell
• Steven Maddox
• Gavin Henry
• Jon Nihill
• Ben Webb
• Dr Roger Gibson
• Simon Ward
• Paul Williams
• David Cooke
• Nicholas Byrne
• Jon Grant
• Matt Blissett
• Philip Hunt
• Noel Williams
• Nigel Barker
• Roy Schestowitz
• Tony P Shaw
• Richard Rothwell
• Suzie Hill
• Michael Thomas Crilly
• Geoff Gardiner
• G.ORourke
• alan russell
• Mark Leese
• Owen Le Blanc
• Jon Witts
• Alex Masidlover
• Malcolm Moore
• Simon Pither
• Steven Walker
• Christine Clifford
• David Barnes
• Andrew Hutchings
• Robin Staple
• Lucy Bridges
• Chris Lale
• Peter Harlow
• Eddie Bleasdale
• Simon Hobson
• Stephen Swann
• Paul Mullord
• John Washington
• Mik Rhodes
• Iain Sutherland
• Keith G. Robertson-Turner
• David Thornton
• Ralph Corderoy
• Arron M Finnon
• Mark Rogers
• Jacqui Caren
• Tung Tse
• Patrick Stewart
• Mark Robinson
• Jason Cormie
• Hakan Koseoglu
• Michael Erskine
• Peter
• Alex Kavanagh
• Antony Gelberg
• Michael Lightfoot
• Timothy Cogher
• Tim Simpson
• Francis Fish
• Peter Millar
• Paul Harvey
• Tim Silver
• Gordon Dunlop
• Chris Halls
• Paul Waring
• Gordon Coupar
• Joe Foy
• Kevin Dear
• Duncan Hothersall
• David Love
• eric purvis
• Rodney Orpheus
• Chris Joyce
• John Robert Seago
• Vladimir Jakubovskij
• Christopher Joice
• Chris Sharples
• Mark Kent
• Tim Hicks
• Andrew Guard
• Alan McMahon
• Don Williams
• Gary Henderson
• Rick Ladds
• Malvin Wall
• Joan Knott
• Sam Aaron
• Martin Guy
• Giacomo Lacava
• Jonty Davis
• Andy Holdsworth
• Gareth Ayres
• Andrew Hickey
• David Knight
• Lee Irving
• Robert Britt-Hazard
• lee stone
• Paul Callaghan
• Andrzej Prochyra
• Geoffrey King
• Bob Mottram
• Martyn Welch
• Gregory Cohen
• Daniel Cohen
• James Lamony-Abrams
• Samuel Connolly
• Matthew Deverill
• Thomas Moger
• William G. Gunn
• Ian McNab
• Mark Fraser
• John Taylor
• Matthew Kichenside
• Denise Craven
• Thomas Fitzhenry
• Brian Woodward
• Lambros Lambrou
• Ron Simpkin
• Justin Skists
• Akhil Kapoor
• Michael Shane Hurt
• Kevin Frost
• Joseph Owen
• david j norman
• Kris Marsh
• Ged Byrom
• James Tait
• Wesley Soltanpur
• Benjamin Bacarisse
• Nigel Gale
• john loader
• Tony Scott
• Ian Cameron
• chris turner
• Grahame Gibson
• M D Barber
• Ian Kirby
• Aidan McGuire
• Tim Davies
• Martin Haney
• Dale Stephens
• Geoffrey Clare
• Gary Stimson
• Jakub Ambrozewicz
• Neil Greenwood
• Duncan Collins
• Alan Lord
• Alan Bell
• Dave Hodson
• Matthew Aslett
• Simon Marsden
• Lisi Reisz
• paul oakley
• Roger Scott
• Jonathan Marsden
• dr Adrian Steele
• Andrew Teasdale
• Tony Spendel
• Anders Jacobsen
• Paul Tansom
• Robert Marshall
• David Purse
• Joe McMorrow
• Rob Boler
• Alex Shenfield
• david mapeley
• Anthony Winn
• Clive Menzies
• David Catchpole
• Denise Orr
• Tony Vroon
• Andy Hudson
• Richard Forth
• Andrew Main
• Phil Thompson
• Stewart Robertson
• Ralph Janke
• Daniel Weck
• Christopher Andre
• Lucian Gabriel Pricop
• Leon Quain
• Stephen Humphreys
• Alban Pearce
• Jerome Davies
• John A Hoyne
• Allan Gallop
• Geoffrey May