Francis Maude

See the following -

ICT Strategy Promises To Save Millions

Linda Davidson | eHealth Insider | March 30, 2011

A new strategy, which the government says will save millions that are currently wasted on public sector ICT, was published by the Cabinet Office today. Read More »

Open Source Push 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'

Matthew Sparkes | The Telegraph | January 30, 2014

The government is investigating free open source software as it emerged that £200m of taxpayers' money has been spent on Microsoft Office alone since 2010 Read More »

Open Source Push in the UK 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'

Matthew Sparkes | The Telegraph | January 30, 2014

The [UK] Government is investigating how open source software could be adopted to save tens of millions of pounds a year and make communication between departments easier.  Since 2010 government departments have spent £200m on Microsoft Office alone, claimed Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in a speech yesterday.

Read More »

Open-Data Push Nets £8m From UK Government

Jon Yeomans | ZDNet | December 12, 2012

Public bodies in the UK will get extra funding to help them release public data for commercial reuse, as the government continues its push on open data.
Read More »

Putting People First In The Post-2015 Development Framework

Alan Hudson | ONE | October 31, 2012

This post sets out what open government is and why it matters, explains the relevance of open government to the post-2015 development framework, and poses some questions about whether and how the principles of open government might feature in the post-2015 development framework. Read More »

U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents

Andy Updegrove | The Standards Blog | July 24, 2014

The U.K. Cabinet Office accomplished today what the Commonwealth of Massachusetts set out (unsuccessfully) to achieve ten years ago: it formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) by software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies...

Read More »

UK institutionalizes preference for open source over proprietary IT

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | March 20, 2013

The U.K. national government issued March 14 a beta version of its Government Services Design Manual , which formalizes a preference for open source technology for digital services..."Use open source software in preference to proprietary or closed source alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, web servers, databases and programming languages," instructs the manual. Read More »

UK Makes ODF Its Official Documents Format Standard

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | July 22, 2014

Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents...

Read More »