...venture capitalists and has Fortune 500 companies as customers. Yet very little is known about how such software will compete with established software firms. In this paper, I propose a...
...example "stands for" the proposition that governments should make use of ODF a priority for long-term accessibility reasons. The Bristol example, in contrast, "stands for" the principle that a government...
Today there are more information and communications technology standard setting organizations (SSOs) than even the largest corporations could afford to join. The effectiveness, speed, stability and reputation of these organizations...
...of items you may have missed that I think might be of greatest interest. Is there nowhere to hide? Streamlined targeted advertising comes to television. The on-line world has seen...
...in one location, due to the need for real time communication. Not surprisingly, the legal rules, tools and practices that evolved over time reflected this sequential and insular process of...
Interoperability is a key enabler of the information and knowledge sharing necessary for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to deliver on the promise of government transformation. Interoperability is not an...
As I've often noted before (see, for example, Microsoft, Adobe and the Murky World of "RAND" ), the exact meaning of the simple phrase "reasonable and non-discriminatory" is anything but...
...the ongoing operational expense will also contribute to lowering the cost of government. By engaging the worldwide open source community, governments can benefit from each others’ efforts and share applications...
...risk of finding oneself in a legacy situations; comparison shopping and competitive bidding; and so on. Using our light bulb example again, without standard bulb stems, you would have to...
...they had been offered the opportunity to vote earlier in the week that their task was impossible. Given that the c. 120 people offered this option had just traveled from...