Government

The Sunlight Foundation and its partner organizations make a variety of data on the influence of money in politics and the operation of government easily available to application developers. This talk will give a broad overview of the data sets and APIs available and the applications that have been built with them, including stand alone sites, browser extensions and mobile apps. Read more.

With the passing of the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010, Africa, especially South Africa, now has much better infrastructure availble for Open data access. Utilising African projects such as Chisimba, which allows for easy API creation, the time is now ripe to create semantically connected data stores for government, education and business Read more.

Since its inception in 2009, Forge.mil, the Department of Defense’s groundbreaking collaborative software development platform, has improved the ability of agencies to rapidly deliver dependable software. This session will provide insight into the continued progress of Forge.mil, which has quickly garnered over 8000 members and over 400 projects. Read more.

This section will focus on a case study where SugarCRM is used as platform to build a large scale Federal level application that will be implemented in all states to manage potentially 10 million beneficiaries. We will be covering how SugarCRM and best of breed open source solutions like BIRT, security solutions, workflow solutions come together to build a very complex workflow application. Read more.

Open source serves as a superb platform for collaborative R&D and the practice of Open Science. In this panel three members of the research community discuss ways to fund, support, and grow research programs based on open source practices. Read more.