Francis Maude
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ICT Strategy Promises To Save Millions
A new strategy, which the government says will save millions that are currently wasted on public sector ICT, was published by the Cabinet Office today. Read More »
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Open Source Push 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'
The government is investigating free open source software as it emerged that £200m of taxpayers' money has been spent on Microsoft Office alone since 2010 Read More »
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Open Source Push in the UK 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'
The [UK] Government is investigating how open source software could be adopted to save tens of millions of pounds a year and make communication between departments easier. Since 2010 government departments have spent £200m on Microsoft Office alone, claimed Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in a speech yesterday.
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Open-Data Push Nets £8m From UK Government
Public bodies in the UK will get extra funding to help them release public data for commercial reuse, as the government continues its push on open data.
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Putting People First In The Post-2015 Development Framework
This post sets out what open government is and why it matters, explains the relevance of open government to the post-2015 development framework, and poses some questions about whether and how the principles of open government might feature in the post-2015 development framework. Read More »
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U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents
The U.K. Cabinet Office accomplished today what the Commonwealth of Massachusetts set out (unsuccessfully) to achieve ten years ago: it formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) by software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies...
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UK institutionalizes preference for open source over proprietary IT
The U.K. national government issued March 14 a beta version of its Government Services Design Manual , which formalizes a preference for open source technology for digital services..."Use open source software in preference to proprietary or closed source alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, web servers, databases and programming languages," instructs the manual. Read More »
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UK Makes ODF Its Official Documents Format Standard
Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents...
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