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Space Available: NASA Embraces Open Government Initiative
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| Whether using social networks to allow
| students to interact directly with
| astronauts, or creating a cloud computing
| platform to give unprecedented access to
| scientific data, NASA's embrace of Open
| Government has made it a leader among
| federal agencies.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/space-available-nasa-embraces-open-government-initiative-90120602.html
Code ownership the key for government open source
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| This is a huge difference and there are
| advantages in both approaches:
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| 1. Government owning code means
| government power increasing. Those who
| donât like to see government power
| increasing may oppose such moves.
| 2. Government owning code means the buck
| stops there. With vendor code you can
| blame the vendor when things go wrong.
| When the code is yours you canât.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6228
Italian Constitutional Court Says Public Administrations Can Favour Open Source
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/35478
Cities of the Future, Part 4: Open Source Avenue
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| For example, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
| Commission (NRC) is using a solution
| combining open source business intelligence
| software from JasperSoft and business
| process software from HandySoft to increase
| operational efficiency and organizational
| effectiveness. This will save it 75 people-
| hours a day and more than US$1.5 million a
| year.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Cities-of-the-Future-Part-4-Open-Source-Avenue-69759.html
The Department of Defense and Open Source Software
http://www.banktech.com/whitepaper/Software/Service-Oriented-Architecture/the-department-of-defense-and-open-source-softwar-wp1271101018337;jsessionid=ZTG0IFKESIWWFQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=137400051&cid=well1_wp_null
Recent:
Open source headlines from the Open Government plans
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| The Obama Administration's Open Government
| Directive ordered Federal agencies to produce
| open government plans by April 7th, and while
| some advocates are disappointed, we have
| before us a bewildering number of initiatives
| to improve transparency, collaboration, and
| participation across the Government. It will
| not surprise you to learn that I spent some
| time looking for places where open source is
| being used in these plans.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/4/open-source-headlines-open-government-plans
Pushing for consistency in ICT across government
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| âA coordinated approach to ICT web services
| seems to be missing in New Zealandâ says
| event director, Tim Knapp. âMany of the
| government departments Iâve spoken to are
| in dire need of an organisation that can
| provide independent advice on open source
| web technologies, particularly as thereâs
| so many to choose from. Australia are far
| ahead of us on this front, where theyâve
| setup the Open Source Business Cluster to
| fill this needâ.
|
| Mr Knapp goes on to say âPlone is
| particularly suited to government as it is
| an enterprise-level content management
| system, exceeds the E-government standards
| for government websites, and therefore was
| officially sanctioned by the State Services
| Commission back in 2005â.
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http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/06/pushing-for-consistency-in-ict-across-government/
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