论文信息 - Open Source Software in the Desktop: The Perspective of the Public Administrations in UK

Open Source Software in the Desktop: The Perspective of the Public Administrations in UK

Open Source has the potential to play an important role in the drive towards e-Government. However, UK public administrations appear to have a markedly different attitude towards the use of Open Source in the desktop to similar organizations in other parts of Europe. The scope of this paper is to investigate some of the possible causes for the distinction, based on experience gathered in the COSPA project. Technical, economical, socio-cultural and political causes are considered and discussed.

[1] Gregorio Robles,et al. Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study - FLOSS FINAL REPORT , 2002 .

[2] Teresa S. Waring,et al. Open Source Software implementation in the UK public sector: Evidence from the field and implications for the future , 2005, Int. J. Inf. Manag..

[3] G.L. Kovacs,et al. Open source software and open data standards in public administration , 2004, Second IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics, 2004. ICCC 2004..