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- From Open Source to Open Government
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| This means that once a company has begun the
| open source journey, and started to
| understand what that implies in terms of how
| software is created and used, they are then
| far better placed to work with governmental
| implementations of the same approach when
| they appear.
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| In other words, the more a company deploys
| open source now, the better it will be able
| to see â and grasp â future opportunities as
| government gradually opens up its data
| treasuries. Yet another reason for not only
| using free software, but also embracing the
| underlying ideas it represents.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2769&blogid=14
Make-or-buy balance still unclear in 2011 Defense and Veteran budgets
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| The VAâs VistA system is open source, but
| aged. Late in the Bush years moves were made
| to replace it with a contracted system. In
| the new budget those moves are expected to
| bear fruit, just as open source VistA
| implementations are making waves in the
| private Electronic Health Record (EHR)
| marketplace.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=3297
Of governments and geeks
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| But even as politicians start seeing the
| light, the pace and methods used by
| governments to free up facts are much
| influenced by independent, open-source
| software designers. (One reason that English-
| speaking governments are ahead of others is
| that there are a lot of activist anglophone
| open-source programmers.) Most of the data
| sets offered by governments bear the stamp
| âbetaâ, suggesting that they are open to
| improvement. With unusual humility,
| bureaucrats are borrowing jargon from open-
| source developers.
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http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15469415
Hungarian Public Sector Mandated To Use Open Source Solutions
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| Open standards have been made mandatory for
| the IT systems of Hungary's public
| administrations. The Hungarian parliament
| voted in favour of amendments prescribing
| open standards, to a law on electronic
| government services, on 14 December. The
| changes received 197 votes in favour, one
| against and 146 abstentions, according to the
| Open Standard Alliance, a Hungarian advocacy
| group that lobbyed in favour of the
| amendments.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/33377
Tories pledge radical reform of public sector IT
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| The Conservative Party says it intends to
| publish all IT contracts and Gateway project
| reviews. But the pledge, which is outlined in
| a paper on its information technology and
| communications strategy, is likely to be
| opposed by senior civil servants who have
| convinced successive Labour ministers of the
| need for continued secrecy over IT projects.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/08/240224/Tories-pledge-radical-reform-of-public-sector-IT.htm
Recent:
What the Open Government Directive Means for Open Source
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| On the heels of the Open Government Memo of
| January 21st, 2009, the Obama Administration
| has issued the Open Government Directive.
| The Directive tells agencies what they must
| do to meet the expectations set by the Memo.
| The directive names many deadlines for
| agency compliance, most of them around
| reducing FOIA backlogs and increasing the
| amount of agency data released to the
| public.
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http://govfresh.com/2010/02/what-the-open-government-directive-means-for-open-source/
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