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Government-wide IT strategy to be launched in December
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| A new government-wide IT strategy,
| refreshing the four-year-old
| Transformational Government programme and
| aligning it with new Treasury initiatives,
| is likely to be published alongside the
| Pre-Budget Report on 9 December,
| UKauthority.com understands. It will also
| accompany Treasury secretary Liam Byrne's
| 'smarter government' report, which sets out
| plans for rationalising Whitehall.
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http://ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=2646
NSW Government flags new era in software procurement
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| Open source and SaaS under consideration to
| cut $100m annual bill on software licences
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/328203/nsw_government_flags_new_era_software_procurement
Dutch Government To Provide Open Source Software Tools To
Help European Businesses
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| The Dutch Government is about to publish as
| open source OS Toolbox PSC, a set of
| software tools that EU member states can
| use to offer or improve their points of
| single contact for entrepreneurs that want
| to start business or offer their services
| anywhere in the EU. The software will be
| made available on the OSOR Forge, the open
| source software repository and development
| platform of the European Commission.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/31580
Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) To Save 20 Million Euros
By Switching To Open Source Servers
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| The Swedish National Police Board (SNPB)
| estimates to save about 20 million euro in
| the next five years by switching to open
| source application servers, open source
| database servers and standard computer
| server hardware, according to a case study
| published by the Open Source Observatory
| and Repository.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/31585
UGO (Urgence Guide Orientation, emergency orientation guide) In
France Wins National Innovation Award
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| UGO (Urgence Guide Orientation, emergency
| orientation guide) a collection of open
| source tools that allows social workers to
| quickly find available shelters for
| children placed under the care of the
| administration, received two awards last
| week [week from 23 to 27 November 2009].
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/31581
Recent:
Rafael MartÃn Espada, CIO, Government of Extremadura. Spain Says
Open Source Is Critical For Development
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| The use of open source software is
| fundamental to a sustainable and
| technologically independent development, says
| Rafael MartÃn Espada, Director General of
| ICT, regional government of Extremadura.
|
| "We have a long list of recommendations that
| we are willing to share with all
| administrations that are considering open
| source", Espada said last week Thursday at a
| seminar in Brussels.
|
| The region for instance advises to take
| fiscal measures to promote the creation of
| open source business. "Make its adoption a
| priority for public administrations. Use open
| source when you are organising electronic
| polls, stress its use in your development
| strategy and build demo centres to increase
| the trust in this type of software."
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/31444
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