Promoting Inter-Agency Collaboration With Open Source Software
Platinum Solution at the Center for Open Source & Government's March conference. The conference, titled "Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU," was held in Washington, DC, March 17 - 19, 2003.
The presentation, "Promoting Inter-Agency Collaboration With Open Source Software," was given on the conference's final day.
Presentation Abstract:
Sharing information among government agencies has long been a goal of government.
The war against terrorism has put a renewed emphasis on sharing sensitive information between law enforcement and
intelligence agencies. In this presentation, we discussed how open source software has been utilized to build
collaborative Web applications that promote information sharing across agency boundaries, while maintaining security
and strict data control. A linguist collaboration application was described as a case study. The application is a
Web-based linguist collaboration tool that is used by federal government agencies associated with law enforcement and
intelligence. This application allows agencies to share scarce language translation and interpretation personnel.
Utilizing open source software resulted in a powerful and flexible system that was delivered under aggressive budget
constraints.