Open Government Directive and Drupal | Acquia
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Perhaps first popularized globally by the South African government's mass move from internal use of commercial software to Open Source starting in Feb 2007, the adoption of Open Source Software in government institutions world-wide has been on the rise over the past few years and will increase by the largest amount yet through 2010.
In this video Acquia, a firm offering commercial support for Drupal, introduce how values of transparency, participation and collaboration exist in the Open Source (development) community and infer their affect on governments which adopt Open Source.