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Open source in government, and where to start
Blog Open source advocates see the development and use of free and open source software within government as one of the solutions to this problem, but then, as Mandy Rice-Davies had it "they would, wouldn't they?
[April 17, 2009, 19:34]
Government endorses open source
News The UK government seems to be warming to open source. Today, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published a report saying open-source software is now a genuine competitor to Microsoft in the public sector.
[October 28, 2004, 10:19]
Government attitude to open source improving?
Blog Last year a Government project called Timely information to citizens was announced, which provided funding to local authorities for projects that gets information out to people faster and more efficiently.
[June 26, 2009, 12:28]
Government expert backs open source
News An expert at the British government's computer security headquarters, CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) has endorsed Linux along with the open source model for software development as the most secure computer architecture available.
[December 22, 1999, 6:00]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
News The open source community will receive a major boost this week from the UK government's ICT agency, which has investigated the potential benefits of using free and non-proprietary software in education.
[May 9, 2005, 10:40]
Open source in government, and where to start
Blog Comment Some years back, I'd prepared a discussion paper for some public-sector organisations here in Australia, covering the development of a government 'code repository', a GovForge if you like, where government agencies could vest their code projects...
[April 20, 2009, 8:29]
UK government promotes open source in schools
News This is the latest government initiative to promote the use of open source software. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) is expected to encourage the use of open source software in schools in a report to be...
[April 27, 2005, 16:40]
Colorado readies open source e-government system
News A number of local government organisations in the US state of Colorado are collaborating on an open source e-government system, with the first site due to go live in the Spring. Kent Morrison, the manager of information systems in Steamboat Springs...
[February 20, 2006, 16:05]
EC report backs open source for government
News In a speech delivered to the Government Leaders' Conference in Seattle, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates likened the concept of open-source software to anti-capitalism. This latest study goes further than any other in recommending open-source software...
[July 8, 2002, 14:31]
MS-backed group lobbies against government open source
News In July the UK government said it would consider open-source software in a bid to avoid getting locked in to proprietary IT products. A recent European Commission report recommended that European administrations should share software on an open...
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
Shadow chancellor slams government over open source
News George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open-source software. Speaking on Thursday at a conference organised by the Royal Society for the Arts, he said: "In recent months...
[March 8, 2007, 12:28]
Report reveals extent of open source in government
News Mitre, a not-for-profit engineering and IT organisation that works with the US federal government, has recommended that the US Department of Defense take steps to encourage open-source software in the department's infrastructure.
[October 30, 2002, 13:55]
Australian government offers open-source guide
News A new guide designed to help federal government agencies evaluate open-source products alongside their proprietary rivals is due to be completed and distributed by September, officials told ZDNet Australia on Wednesday.
[July 7, 2004, 10:55]
UK Government backs open source
News The UK government confirmed on Monday that it will consider open-source software in a bid to avoid getting locked-in to proprietary IT products, and that contracts will be awarded on a value-for-money basis.
[July 23, 2002, 14:17]
UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe
Talkback Yep - in typical fashion, even the government's tacit admission that it was behind the curve on open source was released late. The press release/statement/apology - Government levels the playing field for open source - wasn't sent out from the...
[February 25, 2009, 12:42]
Promoting Knowledge Sharing in Government and Non-Government Organizations Using Open Source Software: The pKADS Story
White Papers This paper reports on the development of an innovative Open Source Software solution called the Portable Knowledge Asset Development System (pKADS).pKADS is a desktop-based knowledge management system whose purpose is to promote knowledge sharing...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Government attitude to open source improving?
Blog Comment Nevermind, I'm sure they'll be lots of new Non-Exec Directorships next year at BT, EDS, Fujitsu, Capgemini, HP, IBM, Capita, Dell, Serco and CSC for ousted government grandees to fill. All UK gov-encouraged council daliancies with open source have...
[June 26, 2009, 14:53]
US Government to fund open source bug hunt
News In the effort, which the government agency calls the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project", Stanford and Coverity will build and maintain a system that does daily scans of code contributed to popular open source...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Government bodies 'embracing open source'
News But the study also demonstrated that those advocates haven't gotten all they want: in 24 cases of proposals that would require use of open-source software, "none of these ever entered into force, and we found no cases of a government mandating the...
[September 3, 2004, 10:55]
MP: How open source can conquer government
News Open-source software is making headway into the UK government, but faces a major obstacle in the form of a public-sector culture that tends to stick with large companies and known systems, according to John Pugh, Liberal Democrat member of...
[June 25, 2003, 12:48]
