Back in 2007, ACT worked with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to write a groundbreaking paper entitled National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with Creative Cities. The paper pointed out that “innovation is the ‘secret sauce’ for the growth and prosperity of economies,” with [...]
Braden Cox & Nora von Ingersleben | June 2009 Today's tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what [...]
It appears that some mistakes will live on in Internet infamy no matter how many times you try to apologize and correct them. Red Hat’s Vice President of Open Source Affairs and president of the OSI Michael Tiemann posted an piece on the OSI Board Blog entitled “A Question of [...]
Oops. Last week, we put out a short little statement about the final publication of the European Commission’s White Paper on ICT Standardisation. It said: “ACT has always been very supportive of European initiatives that foster an SME-friendly environment. The White Paper is a positive step towards a more flexible [...]
For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what they want: better products at lower prices. In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip (essentially [...]