The E-government Panel of the government's Innovation and Decentralisation Council has formed a working group to establish guidelines on adoption of open source software. The panel has been charged to come up with procedures for open source technology evaluation, procurement, maintenance and repair.
The first draft of the guidelines adopted the use of Linux, MySQL, Apache and Tom Cat for less complicated systems, including electronics auditing, personnel administration of local governments, job search service, online litigation information service, support for foreign nationals, food and drug information and national logistics.
"Technically, we can switch the entire project to open source software, but given link with the established systems, we now aim to adopt open source software for some eight areas," said Yang Seung-ha, Manager of the Open Source Software Centre at the Korea Information Promotion Agency.
The E-government Panel will hold two more drafting sessions before the end of August, and will then submit its final proposal to the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs in September.
Quelle: Public Sector Technology & Management, 18.08.2004
