On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 21:10 +0900, Denis Brown wrote:
At 05:39 PM 23/11/2007, Clayton wrote:
A friend of mine in the UK is looking for examples of Linux and/or open source being used in public administration. I've named quite a few of the German examples, but if anyone's got a list or useful resources, I'd much appreciate it. From anywhere.
It appears that local government in his part of the world is only interested in negotiating with <youknowwho>, and the local Linux User Group is trying to suggest anopther angle :-)
There is quite a bit of information here that might be useful... OpenOffice.org focused, but it does give a rather good snapshot of government agencies and private companies who are using OOo and Linux (including SUSE in many).
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
Just out of interest I put "linux open source used in public administration" into Google and returned 1.25 million hits :-) Including the original poster's reference.
It seems that Spain, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, Canada (especially schools) ... are all on the bandwagon. And I recall a SuSE presentation which showed SuSE SLES and Xen being used big-time in the German air traffic control. Talk about mission-critical apps :-)
Hope this helps to get you pointed in the right areas. I may have references on my University's intranet that I could hunt up and let you have.
In Sweden there has been discussions. But not much more. The only official decision is that government internet services must, to the user, be platform agnostic. I can live with that. So, when I wanted my electronic ID so I could file taxes on line, there was a Linux browser plugin. And it works.
HTH, Denis
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