The South Australian Government has announced that it's going to be creating an Open Technology Foundation. From it's vision statement:
The OTF is committed to the evaluation and where proven, uptake of open technologies, standards and methods.
The OTF exists to help governments make better, more cost effective and innovative use of open technologies in order to improve service delivery to citizens.
The OTF focuses on openness in order to help agencies achieve more interoperability, independence, resilience and flexibility in their ICT operations.
The foundation will consist of a governing Board of Directors, advised by two advisory Committees (Industry and Academic, themselves advised by Industry and Academic communities). The day to day work will be done by a General Manager and staff (which will ramp up slowly over the next 3 years).
If you want to know more about how the proposed OTF is going to operate then the final proposed business plan is here
Unfortunately I can't seem to watch the video as it's in a closed format that isn't supported under linux, but here it is for the rest of you.
Open Technology Foundation
Thanx for your interest in our work on the OTF - and sorry about the webcast not being Linux-friendly. I suggest you take that up with Mr Cisco and Mr Webex, that's their issue, not ours.
We chose Webex for our webcast because it was easy, cheap, and we could use it without much fuss to get the word out. If we had more time, we might have found another, more 'open' solution, but we are 100% focussed on trying to make the Open Technology Foundation a reality, so we have had to cut some corners to get things rolling.
If anyone is interested in knowing more about the OTF, please don't hesitate to use the contact details as per the link in your post.
-Also FYI, we are about to re-cut all of our content for the cio.sa.gov.au website, so you may need to change that URL sometime in the next few weeks.
- B King, Director Strategy & Innovation, Office of the Chief Information Officer, SA Government