South African Government switches to Open Source 👐 Web AddiCT 🇿🇦

We’ve gotten a new Manuel for South Africa’s budget yesterday. Previous posts mentioned that South Africa Government lags in open source adoption and that Cape Town slashed it’s ICT budget. At long freaking last the South African Government changes to FOSS.

Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.

Current software to be migrated

“All new software developed for or by the government will be based on open standards and government will itself migrate current software to FOSS,” he told a media briefing at Parliament following Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.

How does this impact our business? it doesn’t really as we’ve built our business on Open Source and use open source. Maybe things like this wont be happening as often as it does in the future. Read more about SA Government’s swicth to Open Source here

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nemoforone says:

30 March 2007 at 06:56

What about the possibility of pulling out of Iraq, letting Iran invade and lose resources fighting their own kind,
and then come in and mop up the dregs?

Denis Akulay says:

6 April 2007 at 00:46

The members of the Open Source Communities need to work hand-in-hand to deliver good quality open source software to support the teachers with computer material on certain subjects depending on the needs of the community.

The Transfer of ICT Knowledge through conferences, forums, symposiums and courses must regularly organized to improved knowledge and quality of work in the previously desadvantaged communities.

these events will introduce new technologies and help the community to improve skills on an open source basis