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Comment by nashashmi

2 months ago

What business and role can the UN have to get into open source solutions?

> What business and role can the UN have to get into open source solutions?

The UN has a nine figure IT budget for starters.

Governance?

  • What governance would you need for open source? Don’t steal?

    • I guess my one word reply to the one sentence question wasn't really clear:

      The UN can define standards and suggest processes to encourage the adoption and interoperability of free software in governance.