On October 22, government and private industry experts will debate the issues and opportunities presented by collaborative software development models. The distinguished panelists have direct experience with successful public/private consortiums based on the open source software model in which developers as well as business and technical users collaborate to create new applications while sharing both the costs and the benefits.  

Another conference first for 2008; we're pleased to announce that GOSCON has been approved by HIMSS for up to 4.5 contact hours of continuing education credit towards renewal of the CPHIMS credential.

Sessions approved for credit include:

This year, GOSCON will feature a first-of-its-kind Open Public Health IT track designed to explore both a strategic direction for open source in the public health sector as well as real-world applications that are in use today by agencies around the world.

The 2008 GOSCON program, sessions and speaker bios are now available on the web. 

Also, be on the lookout for the program for our 1st ever International ICT Summit - coming soon!

We are very pleased to announce that Aneesh P. Chopra, Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, will be presenting one of this year's keynote addresses, entitled "Building a Culture of Innovation and Productivity Through Collaboration".