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Shapps touts 'open-source' planning
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| Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has laid out
| his vision for local authority plan-making in a
| speech at the Conservative party conference.
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http://www.planningresource.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Policy/login/943812/
Tory reforms to let communities shape planning
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| The shadow housing minister has unveiled a scheme
| to give local people more influence over planning.
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http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6506649
Shapps moots 'open source' planning vision
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| Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has unveiled
| proposals for a more interactive âopen sourceâ
| planning system.
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http://www.lgcplus.com/news/planning-and-housing/shapps-moots-open-source-planning-vision/5007127.article
UK: Head of IT development Camden: 'Cooperate with open source communities'
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| Government procuring open source IT should
| consider how to benefit from collaborating with
| open source communities, says Alasdair Mangham,
| head of Information Systems and Development of the
| London Borough of Camden in the UK. "We need to
| learn how to become experts at being members of
| communities rather than experts at governing
| them."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/uk-head-of-it-development-camden-cooperate-with-open-source-communities
Recent:
UK government ignoring own rules on open source
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| Open source vendors are calling on the UK government to
| put its money where its mouth is and police its own
| rules on public sector open source software procurement
| - which were revised in February this year.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/25/open_source_open_standards_uk_government/
Tories call for health computer systems cuts
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| Mr O'Brien insisted that "open source" systems could be more secure. We guess
| he means open source database software run by government offices, not
| inviting all the world's under-employed programmers to rewrite the UK's NHS
| software systems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1528873/tories-health-systems-cuts
Conservatives publish NHS IT policy pledges
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| The Conservatives say they "welcome these conclusions" in part because they
| are "consistent with our plans to free the NHS from Labour's central control
| and interference so that it is locally accountable to patients and can focus
| on improving the results of their treatment".
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http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/08/conservatives-publish-nhs-it-p.html
Software vendors and the UK Government: how to peer behind the scenes
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| The Spencer System allows the Open Source advocate to counter the
| machinations of the cosy relationships between established vendors and
| government.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/software-vendors-and-the-uk-government-how-to-peer-behind-the-scenes.html
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