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Councils need to be more open-minded about IT
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| But this can be taken one step further. By
| applying the principles of shared services
| to the exchange of best practice and
| technical knowledge, web teams from across
| the country can benefit from each otherâs
| innovation and experience. And this is
| where open-source software is critical,
| particularly for applications such as web
| content management.
|
| The question for local authority leaders
| is whether the enthusiasm for efficiency
| savings will be enough to overcome
| traditional barriers to open-source
| uptake. These have been well documented
| and include shortage of vendor support,
| lack of control and worries over cost
| transparency. Potential users can also be
| put off by uncertainties about product
| road maps and, with so many parties
| involved, over where responsibility lies
| when things go wrong.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/comment/2265979/councils-open-minded
Jeremy Allison and Terri Molini on Open Source for America and change in Washington
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| Jeremy Allison of Google and Terri Molini
| of Initmarketing, both presenting on
| behalf of Open Source for America (OSFA),
| joined us for the first Open Your World
| Forum. OSFA is organized to advocate for
| open source technology use in the US
| Federal government, and represents well
| over a thousand members, including tech
| industry leaders, non-governmental
| organizations (NGOs), and academic
| research institutions.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/6/jeremy-allison-and-terri-molini-osfa-change-washington
A CIO for the French Government
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| This news is also great for the open
| source world: if I understand correctly,
| the French government is aiming to boost
| quality of service while reducing costs.
| And to succeed, I donât see many other
| alternatives than relying on open source
| solutions! I cannot imagine a government â
| which is planning to cut costs â deciding
| to select expensive and inflexible systems
| offered by proprietary vendors.
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http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/06/a-cio-for-the-french-government/
Recent:
ICT to face crisis in UK Schools
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| We are going to have to face a very
| uncomfortable fact in the coming weeks and
| months. This new Coalition Government is out of
| love with ICT in schools.
|
| I am certainly not the only pundit who has
| noticed the resounding silence surrounding
| matters ICT amongst the noisy plethora of other
| announcements concerning educational reform.
|
| All we know so far is that virtually the very
| first act of this government was to abolish
| Becta, an act they had uniquely signalled
| months in advance of coming to power and
| carried out with a ferocity resembling a
| pogrom.
|
| Something about it, taken in combination with
| stories from ex-Becta employees who
| (subsequently) complained about apparatchik
| style cronyism within the organisation makes me
| think that ICT has been linked deeply with the
| previous administration..and not in a good way.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3060&blogid=40
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