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NewsForge: Open Source Getting APLAWs in the UK

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 1, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“The United Kingdom is working to move all its local government
services online by the end of 2005, because of an initiative
spearheaded by Prime Minister Tony Blair called the Local
Authorities Website National Projects (LAWs). In the process,
APLAWs (sounds like ‘applause’), a huge open source content
management project, has sprung up, and for UK local authorities, it
appears to have risen head and shoulders above its proprietary
competition.

“APLAWs is the result of Camden Borough Council’s Pathfinder
assignment, one of 25 government-funded exploration projects, aimed
at exploring and developing new ways of implementing
e-government…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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