government open source
vulindlela ranks 792 in Africa and 489 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 2782, and 2860 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 729 and 1196 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
and more importantly free our kids. Shocking initiative from the department of education, but then again why am I not surprised, http://www.education.gov.za/dynamic/dynamic.aspx?pageid=310&id;=8553
I have resigned from my position with the government of South Africa and have joined Sun Microsystems. I will be working on the global government strategy and communities team.
I blogged about the joint seminar for capacity development on Intellectual property hosted by DST, WIPO and JICA earlier. We had the some of the top experts in the country as well as some international guests, and even an IP lawyer or two. Well what came out of the conference
Picked up on the article http://tinyurl.com/ajh32f by Brain Kahin thanks to simon, Brian is a Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington It does raise the question for me about what we should be doing about propreitary file formats. After spending some time ensuring open standards
Busy preparing for Friday’s meeting on procurement. There are lots of good documents to refer to, so putting together a procurement guideline should not be too difficult. One challenge that we will not overcome through this process is Procurement dressed up as a partnership. We have seen many state agencies
I am attending the SITA FOSS workshop for CIO’s. it has been interesting so far, PROGRAMME 2nd ANNUAL CIO WORKSHOP DATE: 25 February 2009 Venue: 08:30 Registration and refreshments 09:30 Opening remarks 10:00 FOSS Implementation proposals 10:30 Government Wide Enterprise Architecture 11:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Migration experiences: Institutions in at different
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I received an email with a link to this news article [ http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090202-01 ] “Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers,” says FSFE president Georg Greve. “Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for
Often independent computer industry associations are never that, so one often reads their reports with more then a healthy dose of scepticism. Having spent some time last week at an ip conference it was quite useful to find this report from the CCIA http://www.ccianet.org ( thanks thiru). http://www.wipo.int/scp/en/meetings/session_13/pdf/ccia.pdf CCIA Comments
The DTI, Mr M. Netshitenzhe asks what is the community benefit for granting patents.
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