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Mr. Tashiro serves as General Manager of the Open Source
Software Center in Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency,
a division of the national government charged with accelerating the
adoption of open source software in government and industry.
The OSS center promotes the utilization and dissemination of OSS by
addressing technical shortcomings of OSS, legal issues, and by acting
as a resource for information on OSS for users and developers in Japan.
The OSS Center tracks pilot implementations of OSS with the goal of
using them as success stories to encourage other government and
educational organizations to specify open source. This presentation
will describe why Japan views adoption of OSS as a strategic
opportunity, the challenges being faced in increasing use of open
source, and the Open Source Software Center's strategies for
surmounting these barriers.
Contents: - Why we need Open Source Software - Obstacles to OSS adoption - Procurement policy of Japanese Government - R&D support for OSS - Information service for OSS - Standardization - Legal issues - Future plan
Mr. Tashiro serves as General Manager of the Open Source
Software Center in Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency,
a division of the national government charged with accelerating the
adoption of open source software in government and industry. Employment 1987-2000 Senior Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and industry 2000-2006 Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industry Science and Technology 2002-2005 Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 2003- Lecturer, Chuo University 2006- General Manager, OSS Center, Information technology Promotion Agency (IPA). Education 1978-1982 University of Tsukuba, College of Information Sciences 1982-1987 Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tsukuba 1982 Master of engineering. 1987 Ph.D. Computer Science.