Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a day when ...

... people come together and inform themselves about the ever growing importance of Open Standards.

With the rise of new technologies and hardware more and more communication is transmitted via electronic data. At the same time more and more information is provided in digital formats or even created in digital format and will never be transferred to any analogue media. Various stakeholders try to exploit these factors by offering communication or information services that use proprietary data formats to lock users into their software, hardware and services. But we do not have to go on like they want us to do. We can get rid of resctrictions and vendor lock-ins if we keep on using Open Standards. These are data formats that can be freely implemented in any service, hardware or software.

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• Zensur,
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• Netzneutralität,
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• Menschenrechte,
• IFG (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz)

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