Sabi ni Jan noong Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 8:18 AM:
i hope there is a very vocal advocacy group to push the use of open source in government, maybe CICT is not doing its job well enough. in case of our department we're the only bureau that uses open source at least on our servers.
You may be thinking that's it's easier than it really is. Having had the chance to talk with one of the commissioners, I'd cut them some slack. For one thing, there are things beyond their control since they're part of a large government machinery. I don't even know if there's a CICT budget, or if the commission's using the individual budgets of the component agencies -- the National Computer Center, the Telecommunications Office (TelOf), and one or two other agencies. Furthermore, a government-wide FLOSS deployment would take more manpower than the CICT has. It's not just the physical distribution of the software (that's trivial), there's also the necessary training and initial hand-holding. Remember Commissioner Emmanuel "Boying" Lallana's message to PLUG at the inauguration of officers? He hinted -- or maybe even outright said -- that government, and the CICT in particular, needs help from the private sector for FLOSS deployment. I took that as an informal request to PLUG. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
