I’ve recently been asked to join as an adviser to the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation. In my view, this is one of the most important open source projects around for the US system of democracy. I was deeply impressed by their open standards specification, public trust approach and the work they’ve done thus farContinue reading “Open Source Voting Systems On the Way”
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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,Continue reading “GOSCON/World Bank Global Webcast Scheduled”
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 aContinue 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 approvedContinue reading “Public Health IT Track at GOSCON Gains Education Credits”
We’ll Always Have Paris | Capitale du Libre Conference Sept 24-45
Someone will have Paris – not me this week – but I want to thank Alexander Zapolsky of Linagora for kindly inviting me to speak on September 24 at the Capitale du Libre conference on the wonderfully titled panel “The Public Sector is Crazy for Open Source Softwares”. This highly popular event, underwritten in partContinue reading “We’ll Always Have Paris | Capitale du Libre Conference Sept 24-45”
Public Health IT and Open Source Software | Focus at GOSCON 2008
I’m happy to report GOSCON this year is featuring more government open source projects and implementations that ever. I’m especially excited about our Open Public Health IT track which covers the spectrum between local and international governments and vendors. GOSCON is all about building the IT ecosystem and I’m pleased to say this will beContinue reading “Public Health IT and Open Source Software | Focus at GOSCON 2008”
Bryant Group 