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Election special: Liberal Democrats discuss
tech manifesto
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| V3.co.uk: How does the Liberal Democrat
| party plan to increase open-source take-up
| in the sector?
|
| John Thurso: The Labour government spends
| Â16bn a year on IT, but has a very poor
| record on IT procurement and has regularly
| been criticised by the National Audit
| Office. The Liberal Democrats will improve
| government IT procurement, investigating the
| potential of different approaches such as
| cloud computing and open-source software.
|
| Does the party believe that open-source is a
| better alternative to proprietary software,
| and if so why?
|
| Open-source software can be cheaper than
| proprietary or bespoke software and we
| believe that government should consider
| open-source solutions in all IT procurement.
| The Liberal Democrats will conduct a full
| review of IT procurement procedures, and
| work with industry to improve cross-
| government working practices and save money.
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http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/analysis/2262404/election-special-liberal
Agency that initiated open gov process ranks near last in open gov study
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| The agency tasked with spearheading the
| White House's open-government efforts ranked
| nearly last in a survey of open-government
| practices, according to a new report.
|
| In an audit of those plans, which all
| federal agencies released in April, the
| group OpentheGovernment.org found that the
| Office of Management and Budget assembled
| one of the poorest open-government
| strategies across the entire Obama
| administration.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/95673-agency-that-initiated-open-gov-process-ranks-near-last-in-open-gov-study
Recent:
BPI drafted the Lib Dem / Conservative web blocking amendment
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| Just in case you were wondering where the
| idea for a web blocking amendment came from,
| we attach to this blog post a copy of the
| BPIâs draft, along with their justification
| for it.
|
| Now, amendments often come from lobby and
| campaign groups, including us, not least
| because itâs the easiest way for them to show
| parliamentarians what they want. But the fact
| that twice, with the original copyright by
| diktat proposal, and then the web blocking
| proposal, the BPI essentially got to write
| what they wanted and get it proposed more or
| less wholesale as law, in such a tremendously
| sensitive area and in such a one-sided
| manner, shows something is very wrong with
| the way this debate is being conducted.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/bpi-drafted-web-blocking
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