It’s Day One of GOSCON and we’re about to start our distributed discussion “Global Dialogue on the Impact of Open Source Software in Transforming Government”. Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni shared these comments on the sustained government initiative in Brazil to use open source and open standards – proprietary software not excluded. Comments include his views the value of collaboration and knowledge-Continue reading “Brazil: Joint Development Defines Free Software & Standards”
GOSCON/World Bank Global Webcast Scheduled
International Government Open Source Dignitaries Lead Discussion
I promised to share information on the webcast when it became available. Here it is:
Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), Oregon State University
and the World Bank’s e-Development Thematic Group
invite you to join via live webcast a
videoconferenced Global Dialogue between Portland, Washington DC, Moscow,
Colombo, Dakar, Accra, Kigali and Brasilia on:
The Impact of Open Source Software on Transforming Government
12:00 – 3:00 pm (Washington DC time), October 20, 2008
LIVE WEBCAST: http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live
Preregistration is recommended at the webcast site.
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The World Joins the Government Open Source Conference
I’ve been talking with some colleagues over the past few months about putting together a group of folks from Washington, D.C. at the World Bank offices there for a joint session during our first ever International Open ICT Summit. I’d met Samia Melhem when we spoke on a panel together at a Gartner Summit a few years ago and we’d been looking to find a way to collaborate since.
The World Bank GLobal ICT Dept is an amazing, distributed team who, in just a few days, have facilitated connections with Brazil, Sri Lanka, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, in addition to D.C. and our own site in Portland Continue reading “The World Joins the Government Open Source Conference”
Public Health IT Track at GOSCON Gains Education Credits
It’s that time of year….I’m all about delivering a quality Government Open Source Conference in Portland in just a few weeks.
Today I’m pretty thrilled that GOSCON has been approved by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for up to 4.5 contact hours of continuing education credit towards renewal of the CPHIMS credential.
Sessions approved for credit include:
Census Says: Governments are Biggest Users of Open Source Software
Objective data, benchmarks and other numeric tangibles have been difficult to come by when discussing the update of open source software in Government. Much analysis remains the domain of corporate-sponsored reports, so its always interesting to see published indicators. I talk to agencies – in the US and abroad – every day that use open source software so anecdotal evidence abounds. But numbers, of course, are better.
Although a press release certainly isn’t a peer-reviewed paper, it does reflect and validate what us government folks have known for some time; government agencies have been earlier-than-usual adopter of open source and are using it extensively. This according to the Open Source Census project. Their initial Continue reading “Census Says: Governments are Biggest Users of Open Source Software”
Open Source PBX | Asterisk
I’ve had numerous calls recently asking me about the (to simplify) open source version of PBX software, Asterisk. Several years ago the State of Oregon extensively tested and deployed an Asterisk server, then later developed several cost-effective applications on the platform which their agency customer could not have otherwise afforded. They wrote up a brief case study on their experience, so I thought I’d post it here for sharing. Kudos to the Department of Administrative Services, Data and Video Services for being ahead of their time on this one. Today, numerous governmental agencies have deployed Asterisk. Here in Oregon, that includes the Portland Metropolitan Service District.
Bryant Group 