[nashashmi]

What business and role can the UN have to get into open source solutions?

[JumpCrisscross]

> What business and role can the UN have to get into open source solutions?

The UN has a nine figure IT budget for starters.

[ambicapter]

These are principles, aka standards, not solutions.

[johnea]

Governance?

[nashashmi]

What governance would you need for open source? Don’t steal?

[johnea]

I guess my one word reply to the one sentence question wasn't really clear:

The UN can define standards and suggest processes to encourage the adoption and interoperability of free software in governance.