In a post titled, “The People’s Code,” U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the release of the new Federal Source Code policy. The period for public comment ended in April after which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) analyzed the feedback on GitHub. The new policy primarily concerns custom-developed source code…
The Bulgarian government has just passed an amendment to its Electronic Governance Act that mandates all custom software created for the government must be open source. The amendment was voted on in the Bulgarian parliament and put into effect July 1, 2016. According to Bozhidar Bozhanov, a 27-year-old software engineer and advisor to the deputy…
The US Government’s Data.gov website is a beautiful implementation of WordPress. The site provides a library of the government’s open data for anyone to use: Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Data.gov lets you search more than 85,000 datasets with…