South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city'
By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK
22/2/2006
URL: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39311442,00.htm
The South Korean government plans to showcase the use of Linux, by paying for a
city and a university to deploy the software on their servers and desktops.
Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) will choose which local
government agencies and which university will be used for the showcase by the
end of March, according to a report in The Korea Times. The government will
provide financial and technical support to the selected government and
university, which will be required to install open source software as their
main operating infrastructure, including desktop and notebook computers.
The government believes the showcase city and university will encourage other
organizations to migrate to open-source software.
"The test beds will prompt other cities and universities to follow suit through
the showcasing of Linux as the major operating system without any technical
glitches and security issues," said MIC director Lee Do-kyu, according to The
Korea Times.
The South Korean government has funded a number of open source initiatives over
the last few years. In 2003, the government announced a plan to replace a
significant proportion of proprietary software on PCs and servers with
open-source alternatives by 2007. In 2005, the government said it would provide
over £1.5 million (US$2.6 million) to government agencies to encourage them to
adopt open source software.
South Korea is also part-way through a massive rollout of open-source software
to schools. The project, called the National Education Information System,
plans to install a Korean-developed version of Linux in 10,000 schools across
the country.
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