openAdmin
08-05-2009, 07:52 AM
It has been an exceptional year for open source, hasn't it? Totally on trend with world governments taking the open source route en masse, a Motion placed before legislators in the Canadian city of Vancouver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver) commiting the city to three closely related ‘open’ agendas has been passed:
The City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media;
The City of Vancouver, when replacing existing software or considering new applications, will place open source software on an equal footing with commercial systems during procurement cycles;
The City of Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.
The City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media;
The City of Vancouver, when replacing existing software or considering new applications, will place open source software on an equal footing with commercial systems during procurement cycles;
The City of Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.