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<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : United Kingdom's central e-services site an open source showcase
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 18 October 2012 | Kudos 1,548
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The United Kingdom's government unveiled its new central services and information website, GOV.UK, this week Tuesday. The site is completely built on open source, saving the government some 70 million GBP (about 86...
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News : Welsh school switches to open source for most of its servers
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 29 October 2012 | Kudos 1,548
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The Maesydderwen School in the Welsh Powys County Council in the United Kingdom uses open source to run most of its servers. Sirius, the IT firm that supplied the school's software and services, reported last week...
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News : United Kingdom open standards policy a boost for open source
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 01 November 2012 | Kudos 1,548
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One of the aims of the United Kingdom's Open Standard Principles, published today, is to boost the use of free and open source software solutions by the country's public administrations. The new policy describes...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : Scotland's new ICT procurement plan makes re-use one of its principles
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 15 December 2012 | Kudos 1,548
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Re-using existing public sector assets is one of the principles of the new ICT procurement policy, published by the government of Scotland on 12 December. Re-use where possible provides a better return on investment of...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : UK coalition to 'continue to level playing field for open source'
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 15 January 2013 | Kudos 1,548
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The government the United Kingdom "will continue to create a level playing field for open source software", the coalition writes in its mid-term review, published last week Monday. It also announced that over...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : List of open source options for education published by OSS Watch
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 18 January 2013 | Kudos 1,548
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A list to help schools find open source alternatives to proprietary software applications was published earlier this week by OSS Watch, a service for higher and further education institutions in the UK. Introducing the...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : New UK government manual for public administrations promotes open source
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 16 March 2013 | Kudos 1,548
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Public administrations in the United Kingdom are to prefer open source software over proprietary alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, web servers, databases and programming languages....
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News : UK government: 'Open source drives commoditisation of IT'
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 03 May 2013 | Kudos 1,548
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Using open source software solutions helps public administrations to regain their power as customers, says Tariq Rashid of the IT Reform group at the UK Cabinet. It helps them to move from expensive unique IT to the...
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Created by Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos | 24 June 2011 | Kudos 262
Domains: Business and Competition, Communications, Economic Growth, Education, Employment, Health, Humanities, Research and Intellectual Property, Social Questions | Languages: English, Greek
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Event : Semantic Technology & Business Conference - SEMTECHBIZ 2012
Created by Debora Di Giacomo | 16 August 2012 | Kudos 1,004
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Whether your most pressing issues are strategic, tactical, or, more likely, a complex combination of both, you’ll benefit from this unique opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and open data are...