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On the radio: Sutor, Munk and GÃ¸tze

Feb

2007

During Bob Sutor’s visit in Copenhagen (I posted the homemade video with Bob Sutor the other day), I had organised for him to be interviewed by DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation, national public radio). Tonight, DR brought the interview with Bob in their program Harddisken (third section), with an almost half-hour long theme about open standards hosted by Henrik FÃ¸hns. He had invited me in the studio for comments and debate with Marie Munk, Deputy Director General in the National IT and Telecom Agency. Bob apprears ...

Sutor YouTubed 1

Feb

2007

Bob Sutor gave an excellent presentation on Wednesday at the IT University of Copenhagen. In the middle of his talk, it occured to me that my TyTN gadget has a video camera, so here’s 7.38 minutes with Bob, where he’s talking about why open standards are important: Then memory ran out. I managed to delete some stuff, and grabbed another 4.38 minutes with this clip where Bob talks about open source and innovation. Update: More video from the talk in Peter Toft’s blog.

Strategizing the use of open source in the public sector

Sep

2006

A forthcoming book, Open Source for Knowledge And Learning Management, edited by Miltiadis Lytras and Ambjorn Naeve has a substantial chapter – “Methodological Considerations in Strategizing the Use of Open Source in the Public Sector” – that I co-wrote with Christian Wernberg-Tougaard, Kristoffer Herning, and Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, all of Unisys. In our chapter, we present and discuss an evaluation model build to describe the different layers of impact on a government organisation when deciding whether to use open source or traditional software. The book should ...