Ecuador’s president signed a decree the government will adopt open source software for its administration, writes The Digital Standards Organization.

“On April 10, 2008, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa Delgado signed a decree ordering that the software used by public administrations in the country be free software (and implicitly based on open standards).”

The remainder is in Spanish, but this seems an adequate summary.

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