Howdy all,
The push for software freedom in government continues.
With this announcement, the Indian Govt. is following the steps of nations like Germany and UK. The financial benefit of using open source is the primary reason behind the drive. “Organizations worldwide have adopted innovative alternative solutions in order to optimise costs by exploring avenues of “Open Source Software”. GoI has also been promoting the use of open source technologies in the e-Governance domain within the country in order to leverage economic and strategic benefits.” – the charter reads.
“Adopt open standards and promote open source and open technologies”, it boldly states.
The nature of compliance has been set to “mandatory” indicating the Govt. is serious on implementing the policy. All public facing offices would be required to follow the same.
URL:http://tuxdiary.com/2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-source/
This clearly could not have happened without popular groups in India pushing for it for a long time. In turn, that has happened because of inspiration from similar success in European countries.
Thank you again to everyone in FSFE, please keep promoting software freedom for all citizens of the world!
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On 02.11.2015 20:32, Ben Finney wrote:
“Adopt open standards and promote open source and open technologies”, it boldly states.
The nature of compliance has been set to “mandatory” indicating the Govt. is serious on implementing the policy. All public facing offices would be required to follow the same.
URL:http://tuxdiary.com/2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-source/
This
sounds great!
Is there any site with a list of all government FOSS adoptions (policies and their implementation "level") around the world?
Thanks.
- - Henning
On 2 November 2015 at 20:53, Henning Jacobs henning@jacobs1.de wrote:
This sounds great! Is there any site with a list of all government FOSS adoptions (policies and their implementation "level") around the world?
Don't know about that, but I suspect LibreOffice would be a useful source on the topic. Collabora just did a deal with the UK government purchasing agency to support a slightly customised build of LibreOffice, which is *awesome* news:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collabora-deal-will-provide-savings-on-op... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/21/government_signs_deal_with_libreoffi...
The comments on the Reg story are apposite: government financial controllers just got burnt *really badly* moving off Windows XP, and are really not at all positive towards Microsoft. And with LO and the forthcoming LO Online, they can stick it to Microsoft and not have to answer sticky questions about their data and the US government.
It's probably on Windows for the time being, but I look at things like LO as the gateway drug to more free software in the future.
- d.
* Henning Jacobs henning@jacobs1.de [2015-11-02 21:53:28 +0100]:
Is there any site with a list of all government FOSS adoptions (policies and their implementation "level") around the world?
We once started with something similar but it would be good if more people help to maintain it:
http://wiki.fsfe.org/FreeSoftwarePolicies http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration
Regards, Matthias
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On 03.11.2015 12:02, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
We once started with something similar but it would be good if more people help to maintain it:
http://wiki.fsfe.org/FreeSoftwarePolicies http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration
Thanks. I just became a FSFE fellow and edited the page to add India: https://wiki.fsfe.org/FreeSoftwarePolicies
:-)
* Henning Jacobs henning@jacobs1.de [2015-11-03 19:18:29 +0100]:
On 03.11.2015 12:02, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
We once started with something similar but it would be good if more people help to maintain it:
http://wiki.fsfe.org/FreeSoftwarePolicies http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration
Thanks. I just became a FSFE fellow and edited the page to add India: https://wiki.fsfe.org/FreeSoftwarePolicies
Thank you. Just to make sure, everybody can edit the files: you can register a guest account.
Regards, Matthias