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There should be a community that documents these kinds of things, so that governments from around the world can have a repository of knowledge for these things. "I'm a government instance that does X and would like to find software that does Y for me. What could exist? Let me look at $repository". Without it, every government has to relearn the same lessons.
The knowledge shouldn't just end up in some article on lwn or whatever, but in the hands of people trying to convince their governments (local to national to international). The EU has something like that, but it's not well managed and there doesn't seem to be an NGO, at least to my knowledge, that does this kind of thing either. I might of course be mistaken.
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You'd think that a government knows how to do a web search
That's easy to say. Do you think the Italian government is going to find an article written in Hindi on the experiences it made with open source education? Or that small towns are going to have the budget to go deeper than the first page on Google that ignored the internet archive?
If it really were that simple and it worked, we wouldn't have to convince governments to use open source.
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Yes, that's what I meant. It was a sarcastic remark on the current government's general level of skills with web-technologies. I suppose the obligatory /s was missed