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China dictates purchase of local software
News At a special congress held to encourage ministries to upgrade to WPS Office 2003, a China-made office productivity suite, Gao said that only hardware pre-installed with domestic operating systems and application software will be purchased by...
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
South Korean govt goes open source
News Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and universities in South Korea will replace the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the...
[October 1, 2003, 9:30]
Singapore government deploys OpenOffice.org on 5,000 PCs
News He said MINDEF's decision to deploy OpenOffice.org is important and is likely to influence other government ministries. It is very significant and will hopefully push other ministries to follow their track," said Marie.
[November 2, 2004, 9:46]
China's Linux market grows
News This standard distribution may make it more difficult for non-Chinese Linux vendors, such as Red Hat and Novell, to do business with government ministries in China as government ministries are restricted to buying software which has been produced...
[March 15, 2005, 12:25]
Asian Linux distro is ahead of schedule
News The upcoming release of Asianux may make it more difficult for non-Chinese Linux vendors, such as Red Hat, which recently opened its first office in China, to do business with government ministries in China.
[January 4, 2005, 15:35]
Linux goes mission-critical for Danish government
News Reliable and transactional data exchange is essential as the system is used by many Danish government ministries, including the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Justice, to send financial data to the Ministry of...
[September 23, 2004, 15:30]
Oftel accused of bias at European summit
News The Commission must ensure that there is no link between national regulatory authorities and ministries. Ministries have a habit of doing deals with operators. In an unprecedented attack on the watchdog, Stanfield suggested that Oftel is in cahoots...
[May 11, 2000, 13:17]
Google brings hosted apps to Africa
News The company claims that Rwanda's educational institutions and government ministries and Kenya's universities are starting to use Google Apps. Three Rwandan universities will initially have access to Google Apps Education Edition, while the country...
[March 22, 2007, 12:01]
Qatar University Centralizes and Automates Administrative Processes
White Papers The university wanted to enable all administrative work previously performed by government ministries to be performed in-house and eliminate manual, paper-based, and inflexible business processes. Founded in 1973, Qatar University offers high...
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Worldwide Trends in Portals
White Papers At all levels of government this began by providing information within single departments, agencies and ministries to their constituents. Governments worldwide are setting online service delivery targets as a method for motivating themselves to...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
E-Cubed: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Support an Excellence Framework in the Canadian Federal Government
White Papers In Canada the Federal Treasury Board has set out a 'Management Accountability Framework' (MAF) to help Ministries and Agencies ensure the quality of services offered to Canadians, support good decision making and effect due diligence in the...
[August 11, 2006, 0:00]
Red Hat opens office in China
News In addition, software companies wishing to do business with government ministries are restricted to buying software which has been produced in China. The Chinese business partners are likely to include Red Flag, a government-backed Linux provider...
[November 11, 2004, 12:00]
Swiss link to Echelon follows satellite sale
News We don't conduct counter-espionage because this is not the job of the military: it's the job of government ministries to determine whether a firm should cooperate with the NSA or not" said Philippe Zahno, spokesman for the Swiss army's general staff.
[December 12, 2000, 10:40]
Thai hackers ordered to work for victim
News He said in the report the government could set up a new branch to push for e-government projects across all its ministries and departments. Surapong was speaking to local reporters on the importance of information security and the need for a new...
[June 12, 2003, 12:34]
Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration
News Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and universities in South Korea will replace the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the...
[April 1, 2004, 12:30]
Gates may find it's better to be red than dead
Leader That rumour has now become fact following the planned introduction of a new policy at the end of this year by China's governing body, the State Council, which will require all government ministries to only buy locally produced software at the next...
[January 7, 2005, 11:25]
Cuba to migrate to open source
News Cuba's customs service has already migrated to Linux, while the ministries of culture, higher education and communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez told the conference. The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open...
[February 19, 2007, 12:00]
2004: The year of desktop Linux?
News China's State Council has mandated that ministries buy Chinese-produced software in the next upgrade cycle, and is pushing local Linux distribution Red Flag. Since then, it's become possible to find actual significant examples of companies and...
[December 22, 2003, 15:20]
Firefox sneaks into the enterprise
News One of the French Ministries is already preparing to make the move to the open source browser, according to Nitot. We have very good contacts at the top level with government administrations," said Nitot.
[March 1, 2005, 13:35]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
News Some German ministries are also using open source software, including the Federal Finance Office at the German Ministry of Finance, which has shifted its back-office operations to two large mainframe computers running Linux, and the German...
[June 9, 2006, 11:50]
