Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

From OpenSource.com

What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments?
We want to shine a light on the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology. We believe that opensource.com will be a gathering place for many of the open source stories [...]

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I have just returned from attending (and speaking at) the ‘Seminar – Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era ‘ at the IPA in Dublin. An interesting and worthwhile day..
All of the presentations were very interesting and will all be online shortly. I will update you on their availability and provide a full report [...]

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 I  met Krishna De at the recent eGovernment Symposium held in Dublin. We did not get a chance to talk properly at the event but Krishna interviewed me about the Kilkenny County Council Wiki project over Skype the following day.
The Interview is online as part of Krishna’s hour long podcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PodcampIreland
You can also download [...]

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From an article by Peter Nowak from CBC News Canada.
Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives.
The lawsuit by Facil was lodged with the Quebec Superior Court on July 15 and made public on Wednesday. [...]

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Just read a very interesting article by Tim O’Reilly on ‘Open Source and Cloud Computing’
O’Reilly highlights the dangers of proprietary  ‘lock in’ to cloud computing service providers such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2, Google’s AppEngine and Salesforce’s force.com.
O’Reilly asks
Why did the WWW end up with hundreds of millions of independent information providers while centralized sites [...]

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The EU Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, publicly supported the use of open source software in eGovernment, in a public speech at a seminar hosted by OpenForum Europe in Brussels on 10 June 2008.
The Commission must do its part. It must not rely on one vendor, it must not accept closed standards, and it must refuse [...]

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IBM announced new technology to secure “mashups,” web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on complex situations in minutes, but as with all Web-based initiatives, security has [...]

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My Society.org is a UK Charitable organisation with two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to most efficiently use the internet [...]

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