 Emerging Technologies in eGovernance
Innovations in ICT provide new opportunities for eGovernance. This sections highlights ongoing trends that shape eGovernance development.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
FOSS programs are programs whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or modified program without having to pay royalties to previous developers.
Link to wikibook about FOSS introduction
In the context of eGovernance FOSS provide the benefit of no costs for licenses which free substantial part of eGovernance project budgets. The open source community provides a vast pool of software solutions which can be applied in various eGovernance areas. The often missing usability of FOSS has improved a lot in recent years and nowadays FOSS solution often overrun the quality of closed source and commercial software. Moreover, the availability of source code allows the modification and integration of applications to the respective eGovernance context specific needs.
Following are some of favorite Open Source tools, technologies and frameworks that are used to build solutions:
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Linux
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Operating system of our choice. Our flavor of Linux Implementation is from RedHat. For more information on RedHat Linux, please visit www.redhat.com .
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Apache
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Apache is the most popular web server since 1996. More information is available at www.apache.org
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MySQL
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MySQL is an extremely popular Open Source database. More information is available at www.mysql.com
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PHP
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PHP is an open source, cross platform scripting language. More information is available at www.php.net .
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Perl
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Perl is an open source, cross platform programming language. More information is available at www.perl.org .
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Python
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. More information is available at www.python.org .
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Zope
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Zope is an application server, content management system and a real-time search engine. More information is available at www.zope.org .
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Plone
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Plone is a content management system built on top of the Zope framework. More information is available at www.plone.org .
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OpenLDAP
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OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. More information is available at www.openldap.org .
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Webalizer
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Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. More information is available at www.webalizer.com .
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JBoss Portal
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JBoss Portal is the next generation open source content management system (CMS) and portal framework from JBoss. More information is available at JBoss .
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JOnAS
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JOnAS (Java Open Application Server) is a pure Java open source implementation of the EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) specification. More information is available at http://jonas.objectweb.org/ .
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Mambo
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Powerful Open Source Content Management System based on PHP and MySQL. More information is available at http://www.mamboserver.com/
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Media Integration
Media Integration or multi-channel distribution deals with the provison of eGovernment services using a variaty of communication channels including internet, TV, SMS, telephone or service stations.
Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Semantic Web Technologies and eGovernance Ontologies
14/01/2009 - Remise du Prix UNESCO-Roi Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Remise du Prix
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DistrictNet
Responsable du Project : Project Manager is district chairman, central government supports DistrictNet, strong involvement local community
Durée du Projet : 2002-2007
Pays Uganda
Statut : En cours
Classé Dans :
appui de procédé de décision
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