LV: Minister: "Open standards improve efficiency and
transparency"
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| Latvia's Minister for Electronic Government Affairs Signe
| Bāliņa says open standards are key to improving efficiency
| and transparency in government.
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| Open technology and open standards are fundamental to
| efficient communication with the government, the minister
| argued in her opening address at the Latvian Open
| Technology Conference in Riga on 12 November. She said the
| government needs to use open IT systems to allow citizens
| and businesses to communicate easily with the
| government. "We think it is very important these systems
| are open and based on open technologies and open
| standards."
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| [...]
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| Marat Guriev, a representative of IBM in Eastern Europe and
| Asia, gave an overview of developments on open source
| software and open standards in Russia. He described how the
| Russian military has been working on its own version of
| GNU/Linux, parts of which have recently been declassified
| by the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of
| Control Automation in the Non-Industrial Sphere (Vniins).
| According to Guriev, many specialised version of GNU/Linux
| distributions are produced, often in response to requests
| by local governments. In three Russian regions, most of the
| PCs in use in about a thousand schools have been switched
| over to GNU/Linux. Moreover, Russian science institutes are
| publishing their work on open source systems, he said, for
| example on the web site Linux Testing.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/lv-minister-open-standards-improve-efficiency-and-transparency
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