Articles tagged ‘transparency’

Red Hat's annual conference from May 9 to 11 was held in San Diego this year. More than 1400 developers and customers attended the Summit to learn about the latest and greatest in open source technologies.

The most popular open source projects are beginning to share the limelight with lesser known projects because of a phenomenon called the Long Tail. The Long Tail is key to the success of open source.

Governments should utilize Information Technology (IT) procurement policy to help achieve transparency, competition, measurement and efficiency in the purchasing process. A policy which incorporates open source as a choice for solutions complements the role of standards. Open source and open standards together can help strengthen a framework for procuring and delivering solutions to meet the needs of government.

Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to create new promises or fulfill old ones. Open source PPPs are favorite vehicles for spurring ICT development in emerging economies. Today's efforts may be dramatically improved by learning from successful projects in other fields such as pharmacology and advanced technology development. Five principles for improving open source PPP projects are reviewed.

The adoption of OSS and Open Standards can improve governance and help provide citizen services fairly and transparently. The State of Massachusetts recently adopted the OpenDocument Format (ODF) setting a landmark precedent to support open standards for all document exchange between the state and its customers — businesses, citizens and other government entities.

By implementing fair ICT procurement practices informed by a government policy that promotes the larger economic welfare and social benefits, we can begin to rephrase “may the best product win” into “may the most beneficial product win”.

Price competition and multi-cultural flexibility introduced by OSS reinforces the need for companies such as Microsoft to be better team players to earn the respect and support of their customers.

Government is the largest user of software in a society. But just as importantly, it also must promote, build and protect a country’s indigenous software industry.

New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.