The U.S federal government is looking at open source software in response to the E-Government Act of 2002. This year's Open Source in Government Conference March 15-17 in Washington, D.C., aims to promote the use of Internet and emerging technologies within government agencies as an efficient way to provide citizen-centric government information and services.

The E-Government Act encourages collaboration on e-government among federal, state, local, and tribal government leaders in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as well as leaders in the private and nonprofit sectors. This cross-sector collaboration is designed to promote the sharing of best practices and innovative approaches in acquiring, using, and managing information resources for the government.

In its mandated search for best value and innovative solutions, the federal government is now looking to open source software, because, as one government official recently said, "the open source movement offers interoperable, reusable, commodity software as viable alternatives to proprietary software." In addition to low or non-existent initial acquisition costs, the open source model leverages external expertise to complement in-house integration and customization skill sets, providing a framework in which to build high quality and secure solutions for government.

http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/02/17/1511218.shtml?tid=110&tid=18&tid=85

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Keywords: tribal government leaders, software collaboration

-- GregorioIvanoff - 21 Oct 2019
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