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F/OSS and the Public Sector
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| So, increasingly I find myself, like many
| others, asking why it is that in general the
| public sector appears to be so far behind
| the curve when it comes to F/OSS adoption.
| We do hear that there is a faster uptake in
| places such as Brazil and where budgets are
| likely to be more limited than in, say, the
| UK or the USA. France's national police
| force has reportedly saved 50 million euros
| since 2004 through adoption of F/OSS and
| migrating a portion of its workstations to
| Ubuntu. Back in February the UK Government
| issued a document titled Open Source, Open
| Standards and Re-Use: Government Action
| Plan, in which it was reported that over the
| previous five years "government departments
| have shown that Open Source can be best for
| the taxpayer", and suggested that "we need
| to increase the pace". However, the overall
| picture with regards public sector F/OSS
| adoption, both here in the UK and elsewhere,
| remains seriously disappointing.
| Furthermore, we are still hearing reports
| that some government agencies are violating
| their own procurement policies by mandating
| vendor-specific technologies in their
| invitations to tender. Where instead they
| ought to be simply defining requirements -
| not solutions - and thus creating a more
| fair, diverse and competitive market, and
| one that has the potential to lead to better
| value for the taxpayer coupled with
| increased innovation.
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https://fossbazaar.org/content/foss-and-public-sector
King County Library System Awarded Prestigious National Leadership Grant From the Institute of Museu
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| "Our project, Empowered by Open Source, will
| enable libraries to collaborate and more
| effectively influence the evolution of their
| information systems so that the systems can
| be molded to fit the services that libraries
| and patrons want, rather than services
| having to be designed to fit what the
| systems allow."
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http://pr-au.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93787&Itemid=34
Recent:
96% of French Public Sector Using Open Source Says New Service
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| According to a French market survey, almost the
| entire public sector (96 %) is using open source. The
| most used applications are database management
| systems and content management systems.
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| The research firm who carried out the survey
| presented a summary of its report on the use of open
| source in France on 17 September in Paris. The report
| is based on an online survey conducted during the
| summer of 2009 and followed up by interviews with 160
| IT project directors, heads of procurement and other
| IT decision makers, half of which are employed in the
| private sector and the other half representing the
| public sector. Another fifty interviews were held
| with IT vendors.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/29338
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