Monday, April 10, 2006

Opening Government IT Yesterday John Goetz posted "A Motion, a Bill, and a Policy." In recent news holds three new cases of policy movement for openization: Denmark, Minnesota and Norway. Denmark Morten Helveg has presented a motion in Parliament (Danish version, dated 30 March, 2006). It says: Parliament imposes on the government a duty to ensure that the public sector's use of IT, including use of software, is based on open standards. <snipped> Minnesota On this side of the pond, The Minnesota Open Data Formats Bill, House File 3971 has been presented to the Minnesota state legislature by Paul Thissen and Steve Simon from DFL, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is in opposition in the state. The bill would require all Executive branch agencies in the state of Minnesota to "use open standards in situations where the other requirements of a project do not make it technically impossible to do this." Furthermore, in Norway Press release from the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform (in Norwegian): Regjeringen satser pÃ¥ Ã¥pne IT-standarder The press release mentions a cabinet decision about open standards, which contains at least two initiatives. First, Norway will create an interoperability framework, or a standards catalogue, which most likely will contain mandatory standards for state agenices. Second, the government will establish an standardization council with several stakeholders. References In English: MIT Technology Review: Norway Promoting Open-Source Software TMCNet: Norway seeks to reduce dependence on Microsoft, others through open-source programs Jeff Kaplan: Norway Out in the Open More, as usual, at [Gotzeblogged] 8:34:04 PM    comment [] Not The Usual Early Adopter Her Maj sent first email in 1976. ... bless yer, e-ma'am [The Register] For 200 points, when did a US president send his first email? During his term as president, who and when? In a lighter vein, also the Queen of England has "worked her way through around 30 corgis since 1944" and she still officially "owns the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters around the UK." 8:18:33 PM    comment [] Government Uncertainty Today's news shows Terminator 4 is go - with or without Arnie. Will the Governor be back? [The Register] See also last elections news: E-voting snafu hits Schwarzenegger (10 November 2005) To call this posting egovernment is stretching it. 8:09:16 PM    comment []

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