GOSCON will begin with the first Annual International Open ICT (information and communications technology) Summit, a full-day event that will convene information technology executives from government agencies around the world.

According to Dr. Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Chief Technology Officer, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, “The expansion of GOSCON to include an International Open ICT Summit is a timely and highly welcome step in an effort to harness practical knowledge, experiences, and best practices of eGovernment initiatives that have leveraged open ICTs.”

Dr. Weerawarana joins an international Advisory Council that is providing critical guidance in the formation of the Summit.  The GOSCON 2008 Advisory Council includes:

Ron Fresquez, Founder and CEO, The Open Source Technology Alliance (TOSTA)
Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer, CITPO, GICT, World Bank
Dr. Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Chief Technology Officer, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
Timothy Ney, Co-founder, Linux Greenhouse

Registration is now open for all GOSCON events – the International Open ICT Summit, GOSCON 2008, and the field trip to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab.  Register for these events individually, or register for all three and receive a discount.  See our registration and accomodations pages for details.

Welcome to the 2008 GOSCON conference season! The conference Call for Speakers is now open.

GOSCON attendees are ready to move from the fundamentals, the models and the promise of open source to the practical implementation. 2008 will be a "show me" year. What are agencies doing, how did they do it, and where did they find the resources and support to make the project/ implementation/ migration/ integration a success?

The theme for 2008 is "Transforming the Delivery of Government Services". Our conference tracks this year include:

Following a third successful year, the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) has set its plans to return once again to Portland, Oregon. Initiated in 2005 as a regional conference with a focus on the fundamentals, GOSCON has become a serious OSS conference for the public sector, drawing the participation of a range of government agencies, vendors, contractors and suppliers from the US and abroad. The conference will be held Monday, October 20-23, 2008, expanding its schedule to include an international simmit, a special Open Public Health IT track, project demonstrations, and to provide greater collaborative opportunities.