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How the UK government can follow Obama's open source revolution
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| The Obama White House is releasing custom
| open source code that it developed itself
| back to the Drupal community.
|
| The White House said that by releasing some
| of its code it will get the benefit of more
| people reviewing and improving it.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2261862/white-house-contributes-open
EU: open standards and interoperable systems for e-government
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| EU governments should use open standards
| and interoperable systems to deliver
| electronic government services, EU
| ministers and the European Commission
| agreed earlier this week. They also stated
| they would promote the reuse of public
| sector information.
|
| The ministers declared to "embed innovation
| and cost effectiveness into eGovernment
| through the systematic promotion of open
| standards and interoperable systems,
| development of EU wide e-authentication
| schemes and proactive development of e-
| invoicing, e-procurement and pre-commercial
| procurement."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-open-standards-and-interoperable-systems-for-e-government
Cenatic: 'Using open source is key for e-government'
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| Using open source is a key element for
| delivering electronic government services,
| argues Cenatic, Spain's national competence
| centre on open source. In a paper published
| on 5 April, the centre lists nine other
| reasons why public administrations should
| be using open source.
|
| According to Cenatic, open source software
| conforms to European rules and
| recommendations in interoperability. "The
| European Union and the Spanish Government
| have decided that the use of open source
| software is a key element for the
| development of e-government and open
| government."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/cenatic-using-open-source-is-key-for-e-government
Final version of Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline published
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| The final version of the Procurement and
| Open Source Software Guideline has been
| published on OSOR.eu. The study,
| commissioned by the European Commission as
| part of the "Dissemination of good practice
| in Open Source Software (GPOSS)" measure
| under the IDABC programme, gives guidelines
| for public administration on how and why
| publicly acquire open source software.
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http://www.osor.eu/communities/osor/final-version-of-procurement-and-open-source-software-guideline-published
Recent:
NL: Open source desktops manage shared office space ministries
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| Twenty desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux
| distribution are used to manage the
| services at a shared office building in the
| Hague for all Dutch ministries, since the
| beginning of this month.
|
| The shared office building, called
| Rijkskantoor Beatrixpark, facilitates
| ministries working together on temporary
| projects, and offers the ministries extra
| office space when needed.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/nl-open-source-desktops-manage-shared-office-space-ministries
PT: Government procurement agency approves use of open source
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| The Portuguese government agency for public
| procurement has published a list of open
| source applications it deems suitable for
| use by public administrations.
|
| The selected open source applications are
| now part of the official software catalogue
| published by Portugal's procurement
| authority, the AgÃncia Nacional de Compras
| PÃblicas, ANCP. Included on ANCP's list are
| the database management system MySQL,
| content management system Alfresco, email
| server Scalix and server and desktop
| operating systems Red Hat Linux and Ubuntu
| Linux.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/pt-government-procurement-agency-approves-use-of-open-source
Citizens ask e-government project to use open source and standards
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| Two hundred Romanians have signed a
| petition urging Gabriel Sandu, the Minister
| for Communications and Information Society,
| to support open source software on e-
| government projects. They also ask him to
| use open standards and to make government
| data public electronically.
|
| The petition was organised by APTI, a
| Romanian Association for Technology and
| Internet. It was organised on-line
| regarding the eRomÃnia project, a 500
| million euro project proposal to make
| government services and information
| available electronically. The project has
| been discussed for the past few years, and
| minister Sandu is one of its supporters.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/citizens-ask-e-government-project-to-use-open-source-and-standards
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
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