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City of Helsinki

• Gravityloss 12y ago
  Helsinki is moving to open source to avoid vendor lock in. Here's one politician's explanation: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fotsokivekas.fi%2F2015%2F04%2Fhelsinki-siirtyy-avoimeen-koodiin%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=h...
  • evjan 12y ago
    This is awesome, I hope more do this!
• rmason 12y ago
  There's a lot of open source software for governments in the US but darn few avail themselves of it. http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Civic_Software http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Civic_Software http://opencityapps.org/ http://opencityapps.org/
  • thearn4 12y ago
    A fair number of `Open Data` municipal initiatives seem to end with a single SQL dump or two handed over to a commercial vendor (such as socrata) for display. Not much of substance, but just enough for an elected official to say "see look, I made us an open data city!"
• ondrae 12y ago
  My favorite open source City application is http://cityofasheville.github.io/simplicity-ui/#/search http://cityofasheville.github.io/simplicity-ui/#/search It's the friendliest version of open data I've seen.
• Sharlin 12y ago
  Now if they only applied this philosophy to their huge hundred-million-euro healthcare information system project currently in the last stages of the bidding competition [1]. It will in all likelihood be a completely closed, monolithic, proprietary system and, as far as I know, no attempt is done in the specifications to avoid vendor lock-in. It will probably become a nice cashcow for whichever megacorp wins the project. [1] http://www.hel.fi/hki/apotti/fi/Apotti-hanke/English http://www.hel.fi/hki/apotti/fi/Apotti-hanke/English