Open source government
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Open source government primarily refers to use of open source software and technologies in traditional and non-traditional government organizations and government operations such as voting and email.
The benefits outlined for the use of open source software in technology emphasize the large cost savings, standards compliance, and transparency to validation.
[edit] See also
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving free speech rights in the context of the digital age
- Electronic voting - Referring to both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes
- Linux adoption - Referring to the uptake of the Linux operating system by homes, organisations and governments
- Open source governance - Applying open source principles to human social governance
- Portal:Politics
[edit] External links
- OpenSourceGovernment A forming Political Party (The "Technocrats")
- The Center of Open Source and Government
- Open Voting Consortium
- VOTE System News - The Verifiable Open Technology Elections (VOTE) approach is a collaborative initiative between voting system vendors, open public standards organizations and public open source development organizations.
- "Open-Source Government Free-software guru Bruce Perens has a new information-technology solution" — outlines use of open source technologies in government
- "The Minimal Compact: An Open-source Constitution for Post-national States" — outlines a proposal for Open Source Government, dated February, 2003.
- Demosphere Project — The wiki & global project to develop a community based e-democracy framework using open source and interactive software. (Wikinews article)
- Berry, D M.& Moss, Giles (2006). Free and Open-Source Software: Opening and Democratising e-Government's Black Box. Information Polity Volume 11. (1). pp 21-34
- C2 Wiki on Open Source Voting Technology
