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LGSCB & MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES SOLUTIONS SHARING NETWORK
Governments and their principal agencies are responsible for matters ranging from creating an environment that fosters a growing economy and generating plentiful jobs to providing proper healthcare and educational systems and nurturing an improved standard of living. All this is to be achieved while maintaining and improving their organizational efficiency in the face of tightly controlled budgets. Recognizing this, Microsoft Corp. has announced it is delivering the Solutions Sharing Network, a global initiative that provides an online, community-based capability to promote increased communication, deeper information exchange, and collaboration between government organizations, academic institutions and other public sector agencies. The Solutions Sharing Network enables Microsoft’s global public sector partners and customers can share their unique IT solutions, architectures, best practices, application source code that the governments own and have contributed to the project, and research to increase efficiencies and reduce long-term development costs. According to Tim Willoughby, Assistant Director, Local Government Computer Services Board “All Government agencies share common technological and administrative challenges. By providing the Shared Solutions Network, Local Government in Ireland has been able to establish a valuable knowledge bank that will bring tremendous benefit to our community. The development of an Solutions Sharing Network is a significant step forward in sharing and collaborative technologies for ICT communities across all governments.” www.microsoft.com