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[News] Asian Governments Use Free Software to Tackle Copyright Issues, UK May Turn to it Also

  • Subject: [News] Asian Governments Use Free Software to Tackle Copyright Issues, UK May Turn to it Also
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:01:39 +0100
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Asia tackles copyright quagmire through open source

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| Tightly guarded secrets may be a thing of 
| the past for government officials or space 
| researchers as more industries adopt open-
| source practices, presenters at a 
| conference said Friday in Seoul.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/327219,asia-tackles-copyright-quagmire-through-open-source.html

Government IT: Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source

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| As the UK's new Government settles into 
| power the direction in which it is taking 
| ICT policy is becoming clear, the only 
| question is how the admittedly great ideas 
| will be implemented in practice.
| 
| Much informed analysis has indentified 
| that despite the counter-intuitive pairing 
| of the Conservatives and Liberal 
| Democrats, they are in fact closely 
| compatible in many policy areas.
| 
| ICT policy is one such area, and by far 
| the majority of the excellent policy ideas 
| from both party's manifestoes have made it 
| through to official UK Government policy.
| 
| Let's start with a lightning tour of the 
| big picture. Austerity is, of course, set 
| to become the watchword for the coalition, 
| and with Public Sector ICT spending 
| running at over Â14,500,000,000 per annum 
| and rising some might say austerity is 
| long overdue in this area.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2999&blogid=17

BCS In Crisis Vote Of No Confidence

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| I received a mass-mailed letter from one 
| Elizabeth Sparrow today that triggered my 
| open source instincts. She's the current 
| President of the British Computer Society, 
| as well as one of the key people trying to 
| get us all to stop calling it that. She 
| and her colleagues would like us - the 
| current voting members - to agree to 
| rename the BCS as "The Chartered Institute 
| of IT" and there's an expensive marketing 
| campaign in progress to perform the naming 
| and rebranding switch.
| 
| Right now it's in an awkward phase where 
| we're all instructed to treat "BCS" as an 
| abstract string preceding "The Chartered 
| Institute of IT".
| 
| The reason for the letter? A group of 
| members - Elizabeth and her friends would 
| like me to believe it's "a very small 
| number" but that's calculated purely from 
| the number required to call a meeting - 
| are concerned by the changes and have 
| pressed the governance 'panic' button.
| 
| The letter was to seek my support for the 
| current leadership at an Emergency General 
| Meeting (EGM) on July 1st. While the 
| letter and accompanying leaflet 
| characterises the opposition as Luddism, 
| the concerns expressed have a kernel of 
| reality. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| As a long-time member (at the Fellow 
| grade) I have no doubt that the BCS needs 
| revitalising - my own attempts to engage 
| over open source have gained little 
| traction, for example, and the public 
| policy positions the BCS has taken have 
| often seemed to me over-accommodating to 
| business influences.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2998&blogid=41


Recent:

Open source movement spreads across Asia

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| Open source has consistently made headlines in recent years, having drawn
| much industry attention both from technologists and business decision-makers.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62056314,00.htm


City hall goes open source

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| City hall will be more transparent after council passed a notice of motion
| opening up the city's data to the public last Monday.
|
| The notice instructs city bureaucrats to draft a report on how to make all
| data collected by the City of Calgary, from traffic statistics to census
| numbers, more accessible to Calgarians in an open source format, while
| respecting privacy and security concerns.
|
| [...]
|
| It would even cut down on the city's use of proprietary software, saving
| money down the road, said Kelly. Opening up the records in open source format
| would allow developers to take advantage of the information to create new
| open source programs that could be used by city officials to save expenses.
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http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/13691


Advocates say open-source software is better

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| Advocates for open-source software are urging governments to embrace the
| concept, which they argue will save money, offer more flexibility and create
| better computer programs by encouraging collaboration.
|
| Open-source programs - which allow anyone to change or modify them - have
| been gaining popularity in recent years, from free consumer software such as
| the Firefox web browser to Internet servers and other complex applications.
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http://technology.canoe.ca/2009/06/17/9832971-cp.html


Vancouver enters the age of the open city

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| BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Vancouver endorses the principles of:
|
| * Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will freely share with
| citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data
| possible while respecting privacy and security concerns;
|
| * Open Standards - the City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to
| adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats
| of media;
|
| * Open Source Software - the City of Vancouver, when replacing existing
| software or considering new applications, will place open source software on
| an equal footing with commercial systems during procurement cycles; and
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http://eaves.ca/2009/05/14/vancouver-enters-the-age-of-the-open-city/
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