{"id":1322,"date":"2013-03-01T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2013-03-01T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:40:48","slug":"latvias-economy-ministry-should-boost-use-of-open-standards-and-open-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Latvia&#8217;s economy ministry should boost use of open standards and open technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/news\/latvias-economy-ministry-should-boost-use-open-standards-and-open-technology\">report on Joinup<\/a>, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, LATA &#8211; Latvian Open Technology Association &#8211; is calling on the Ministry of Economy to make open standards and open technologies one of the core themes of the ministry&#8217;s business education efforts. LATA <a href=\"http:\/\/lata.org.lv\/?p=944\">published a statement<\/a> (Latvian) on Wednesday, pleading continued funding of ICT training for Latvian companies. Earlier this week the ministry announced a four-fold reduction in the training budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Businesses get the maximum effect from the right skills to use open technologies and open standards.&#8221; LATA argues that open technologies and standards make companies more efficient, as well as improving interoperability.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia&#8217;s Ministry of Economy is currently preparing its 2014-2020 plans for using European Social Fund monies. It has announced that it intends to reduce the ICT training budget to 5.25 mn. lats (about &euro;7.51 mn.) and to restrict funding to <acronym title=\"Small and Medium-sized Enterprises\">SMEs<\/acronym>. Between 2007 and 2013, over 20 mn. lats (about &euro;29 mn.) was available in employee training grants.<\/p>\n<p>According to LATA, many Latvian ICT companies are using European funding to improve ICT skills and gain knowledge of new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report on Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, LATA &#8211; Latvian Open Technology Association &#8211; is calling on the Ministry of Economy to make open standards and open technologies one of the core themes of the ministry&#8217;s business education efforts. LATA published a statement (Latvian) on Wednesday, pleading continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,15,9],"tags":[12,11,20,23],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-politics","category-tech","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}