iTweb: Govt Steps Up Open Source Pace

“The State IT Agency (SITA) is committed to transforming open
source software from a niche product into a mainstream tool for
delivering government services, SITA CIO Mojalefa Moseki said
yesterday.

“He was talking at an open source software (OSS) workshop hosted
at SITA, the second such meeting. The workshop was held under the
auspices of the OSS Workgroup and incorporated representatives of
the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), SITA,
the Centre for Public Service Innovation and the Department of
Public Service and Administration.

“Participants resolved to pick up the pace of testing and
implementation of OSS in government structures, and set tight
deadlines for tasks such as establishing an OSS unit within SITA
and the development of a framework for assessing and recording the
results of OSS use in government…”

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