In government, the use of open standards is important and IT implementations are vital to ensure that it has adequate and reliable information to enable it to rule the country effectively. I look for a government that adopts open standards over the internet and I read that government of Croatian adopts an open source software policy and issued guidelines for developing and using open source software in the government institutions.
The Croatian government is concerned that proprietary software leads to too much dependence on the software suppliers. Open source software will make more transparent, according to the government’s document, entitled “Open Source Software Policy”
Domagoj Juricic, deputy state secretary at the Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia and the leader of this project, explains what made the government publish the policy: "The use of information technology in government administration bodies is increasingly becoming important. So far, most of the software we use is proprietary software, so we cannot modify or complement it, or link software from different vendors. These software products impose rigid commercial conditions of use and limit our possibilities. In this way, government administration bodies may be led into a dependent position on the supplier of the software. This could lead to closed information systems, which make the success and efficiency of our eAdministration project more difficult.
Croatia is a country of southern Europe along the northeast Adriatic Coast
To read more on the policy, click the link below..
http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/56376
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