Richard Andrews

Interest in open standards:

• Advocate of open standards in government and education.
• Free software developer.
• Frequent user of open standards and free software.

Track record:

• Unsuccessful in lobbying attempt with Standards Australia over OOXML
• Unsuccessful in lobbying the Australian Taxation Office to fully release linux (java) app (which is known to exist but which they deny exists).
• Submitted paper advocating open standards in the Australian Government's recent Productivity and Innovation Review.
• Contributor to http://www.openeducation.org.au.

Declaration of interests:

• None that I am aware of.

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Short bio

• PhD in electrical engineering/computer science
• System Architect and Principal Engineer in wireless comms
• Free software developer: http://www.ntop.org/n2n