http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/049354-french-government-spends-15-of-it-budget-on-open-source.html

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/NASA-launches-open-source-web-site-1404210.html
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the US, has launched code.nasa.gov, a web site that will serve as the central source of information about the agency’s open source projects. The site, which is still in early alpha, is intended to help unify and expand NASA’s open source activities

by: Steve Evans, Published 04 November 2011 UK govt wants to dispel some of the myths around open source software The toolkit contains information on procuring open source software as well as guides to vendors and what sort of costs are likely to be associated with going down the open source route. In total the toolkit, [...]

By Tom Kaneshige Thu, October 27, 2011 Only two months into the job, VanRoekel was soon in awe of the sweeping federal IT landscape. What about people who want to keep things the same? “There’s a great business for someone,” VanRoekel jokes. “Create a front plate of a server with blinking lights on it but [...]

Article in the computerweekly.com by Mark Ballard on Friday 30 September 2011 11:53 The government’s IT security arm, CESG, has begun relaxing security restrictions on the software it approves for public sector use to accommodate Cabinet Office plans for cloud computing and wider use of open source. The electronics and computing arm of GCHQ has [...]

http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/promoting_oss_in_government.html by Andrew Oram This is a prepublication version of an article published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Volume 8, Issue 3, July-September 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis. See permission notes here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/promoting-open-source-software.html Discusses: “the four main criteria for successful adoption of open source by government agencies: 1. An external trigger, such [...]