Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat's goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue from outside the United States by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman, CEO and president, in a conference call on Thursday.

"...The movement towards FOSS usage in government is growing and a number of governments have made decisions on the full utilisation of FOSS for the delivery of services..."

President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of Mongolia announced today his commitment to provide every child in his nation with a connected laptop by the end of 2010.

“Information on the total use and value of open source in government is not held centrally and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.”

But open source software did “play an important role” in major government applications including the Directgov web portal, the online vehicle licensing system and Jobcentre Plus’s system to help people to find work, Merron added.

as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra.

According to the results of a report designed to identify current open source adoption rates and trends in the Federal government and undertaken by the Federal Open Source Alliance, the Feds seem to have a growing appetite of and appreciation for open source.

In order to fully take advantage of open-source software, Defense Department agencies may need to rethink how they do procurement, said Fritz Schulz, who works in the chief technology office of the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Supporters of the open access movement (OA), the open-source-inspired community that promotes free access to academic research, are disappointed but not discouraged by the defeat of a bill that would have required research published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to be available to the public.