Important questions

Who is ensuring that technological barriers to information access are not being artificially created? It is our data, not the vendor's
Who is ensuring that documents authored today will be able to be manipulated 10 or 100 years from now, without relying on vendor existence and/or permission?
Who is ensuring that a vendor choice of a government department does not force a vendor choice onto citizens (or other departments, governments) who interact with that department?

Who is ensuring that technological barriers to information access are not being artificially created? It is our data, not the vendor's