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50% of Venezuela Government Software will be Open Source by 2007
According to a presidential decree passed in December 2004, Venezuela’s public administration must present a plan within three months for how it will raise its usage of free software ... Following the president’s approval of the plans, the departments of the public administration will have two years to implement it.
One of the main reasons the government is interested in switching to free software is that it wants to consolidate its technological independence and lower its vulnerability for not controlling the software it uses.
Venezuela’s president of the National Technology and Information Center (CNTI), Jorge Berrizbeitia, says that the migration from private software to free software in Venezuela’s public administration will present a great challenge for the government and the country’s data processing companies.
Read the full text of the story at Venezuelanalysis.com
