Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation presented the country’s first Open-Source Software Policy for the public sector at an event on Sierra Leone’s open-source journey held alongside UNGA81, describing it as a response to government institutions building duplicate systems, rising costs from proprietary technology, systems that cannot interoperate, and vendor lock-in that keeps the state from getting full value from technology bought with public funds. The minister said the policy grew out of Sierra Leone’s membership in the Digital Public Goods Alliance and a long drafting and validation process rather than starting at the launch, and pointed to the country’s Digital Public Goods pipeline as its contribution to global work on open source and digital public infrastructure while inviting partners to use Sierra Leone as a test case. Reporting on the launch does not include a final implementation timetable.
Sierra Leone unveils a national open source policy for the public sector
Sierra Leone's Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation presented the country's first Open-Source Software Policy for the public sector at an event on Sierra Leone's open-source journey held alongside UNGA81, describing it as a response to government institutions building duplicate systems, rising costs from proprietary technology, systems that cannot interoperate, and vendor lock-in that keeps the state from getting full value from technology bought with public funds. The minister said the policy grew out of Sierra Leone's membership in the Digital Public Goods Alliance and a long drafting and validation process rather than starting at the launch, and pointed to the country's Digital Public Goods pipeline as its contribution to global work on open source and digital public infrastructure while inviting partners to use Sierra Leone as a test case. Reporting on the launch does not include a final implementation timetable.
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