Showing posts with label public sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public sector. Show all posts
09 March 2010

Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh)

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It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustrating is that open...
19 February 2010

Herding the Meta-Cats

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In the famous online argument between Linus and Minix creator Andrew Tanenbaum during the very early days of Linux, one of the more memorabl...
07 June 2009

Creative Commons, We Have a Problem

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I'm a big fan of the Creative Commons movement. But it has a big problem: few people have heard of it according to a survey conducted ...
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08 January 2009

Open Cloud Conundrum, Open Cloud Consortium

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One of the hot areas in 2008 was cloud computing, and 2009 looks likely to be a year that is equally occupied with the subject. But cloud co...
29 September 2008

What Microsoft Still Does Not Get

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At first, I thought this Computerworld UK story about software vendors “challenging” proposed EU guidelines was just a typical Microsoft whi...
23 July 2008

UK Public Sector Information Unlocking Service

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Gosh, this is getting to be a habit : As the regulator for public sector information re-use, we know that people can encounter difficulty fr...
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08 June 2007

The Power of (Open) Information

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Here's an important study , called The Power of Information , that is actually all about the power of *open* information: This is an unu...