The “Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan” is a public document published by Tom Watson MP, Minister for Digital Engagement within The Cabinet Office that encourages government agencies:

- to ensure that Open Source products are fully and fairly considered throughout government IT;
- to ensure that requirements are specified and data is published in terms of Open Standards;
- to seek the same degree of flexibility in commercial relationships with proprietary software suppliers as are inherent in the open source world.

This site provides a means for commenting on the action plan in considerable detail.  The text is broken down into its respective sections for easier consumption. Rather than comment on the text as a whole, you are encouraged to direct comments to specific paragraphs.

Wordle of Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use

The original version of this document can be found at Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan. Click here for an embedded version of the file for printing and offline reading.

The Cabinet Office have also produced a public dashboard to track comments associated with the Action Plan: Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan Online Media Tracking Dashboard.

The official tag for referring to this report is: #ukgovOSS

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