[acquisitions-wg] Five large projects for Open Source for America

[David López]

Hi Andy, I am David López, a spanish lecturer/researcher interested in
FLOSS-based business models.

I find your first proposal quite related to the efforts that the European
Union and many countries are adopting to enforce service and data
interoperability:

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/

<http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/>for instance in Germany, UK, France and Spain
(among others) there exist administrative procedures to define which
standards and technologies are compliant for any given scenario.

With regards to project number 4 I have been informed of an initiative,
sponsored by the USA administration, to provision cloud-based eGovernment
services:

https://www.apps.gov/cloud/advantage/main/start_page.do

II hope it helps.

Regards:

David López


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:

> The day Open Source for America was announced, I published a list of
> five ambitious projects I thought it should take on:
>
> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/five-projects-for-open-source.html
>
> The list of projects follows. I wonder whether other people on this
> list think they're worthy, and whether they're an appropriate discussion
> topic for this list (or perhaps other OSA lists).
>
> 1. To encourage all information to be stored in truly open formats.
> The touchstone of success is whether all the data stored can be
> retrieved by alternative means.
>
> 2. To instill government procedures that are friendly to projects that
> don't have well-organized corporate backers who can register with the
> government, and meet standards for liability, etc.
>
> 3. To train companies as well as independent projects on how to go
> through the steps required to be adopted by governments.
>
> 4. To encourage the government to develop its own Software as a
> Service offerings, requiring vendors to use an appropriate free
> software license, rather than depend on commercial services that were
> developed for other markets.
>
> 5. To join efforts at defining a maturity model for open source
> software, so governments can evaluate its quality, reliability, and
> security.
>
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