UK Government publishes open source guidelines
The UK government wishes to dispel myths about open source software. To assist agencies the Cabinet Office has issued an open source procurement toolkit.
French PM demands widespread use of free and open formats in government
The appeal was made by Prime Minister François Fillon on 31 August 2011 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers regarding free and open formats
UK taxpayers' money squandered on failed IT Projects
Read the tale of colossal arrogance, incompetence and waste on major IT projects that fail and no one takes accountability for. Preventation of such inefficiency can be stopped, especially with the cost of technology falling. First, ministers should scale down ambitions and choose systems shown to work elsewhere.
City of Munich makes the move to open source on desktops
At the moment, 6800 PCs in Munich are based on open source, of the in total 15 thousand PC's in use in the city administration. At the end of this year, some 8500 will be switched over from the proprietary operating system to an open source operating system, and in 2013 some 12000 to 13000 will have been migrated.
Indian Government issues open source operating system policy
The policy outlines the use of operating systems and device drivers in all new e-governance projects. The objective is to provide e-Government services, which are technology-neutral, cost effective, interoperable and vendor-neutral.
Open Source to be in majority use by 2016
A major US conference survey's findings suggest that open source software is well on its way to becoming fully embraced by government and corporates.
US agency leading the way with Open Source and the Cloud
US Federal Communications Commission's website built on open source and hosted in the Cloud.
Australian Government issues new open source procurement policy
Australian Government moves to encourage use of Open Source Software
e-government becomes the public safety net
e-government provides a rare safety net in the delivery of government services as agency IT budgets shrink round the world.
Sydney and Newcastle Buses goes live with 27,344 sessions per day.
NSW State Transit's high profile websites have cut-over to a Plone powered multi-site solution. These high load, high availability websites are hosted on the NSW Government Chief Information Office's shared web platform bringing cost savings and the latest Gov 2.0 technology to NSW tax payers.