Bureaucrats like Github
Fri 15 March 2013 by guglielmoFiled under reporting Tags politics open source
A post on Oreilly Radar informs us that Github is trending as the social-repository of choice for governments and public institutions who want to publish data, standards and source code.
Some remarkable examples:
- US - https://github.com/WhiteHouse
- NASA - https://github.com/nasa
- UK - https://github.com/alphagov
- Canada - https://github.com/pwgsc
- Finlandia - https://github.com/avoinministerio
- Buenos Aires - https://github.com/gcba
Github also destined an evangelist to the task. The objective: change the way governments actually face (and solve) ICT problems, studying similar solutions in the social repository, and implementing from scratch only when really required.
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