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Open source technologies, communities, and methodologies are playing an increasingly important role in international governments and policy-making. Learn more about open government.

Upcoming global discussion on open government, big data, and innovation

The Gigabit City Summit is set to host a diverse, dynamic range of speakers on the topics of open government, big data, and innovation on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 from 7:00…

International open data hackathon 2011: Better tools, more data, bigger fun

Five major standards organizations speak out

What's going on at the International Telecommunications Union ? Earlier this month, the IEEE, Internet Architecture Board ( IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF)…

The latest White House moves on open source: Connecting citizen developers to tools

This week, in the latest step to connect citizen developers with the tools they need to unlock government data, the White House updated their website to include a developers…

Is open source democratic?

In his recent post, Glyn Moody asks an important question: "Can open source be democratic?" He describes how free software emerged as a distributed, bottom-up system of…

Can governments crowdsource their brand?

A recent poll asked about brand practices for cities and city governments. While the results are still coming in, it's clear that citizens want to be included in this process…

By the numbers: India saves and grows with free and open source software

Free and open source software (FOSS) plays an indispensable role in developing countries. As it is often a substitute for more expensive proprietary software, it can impact…

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