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Adopting Open Source Software

A Practical Guide

By: Brian Fitzgerald,Jay P. Kesan,Barbara Russo,Maha Shaikh,Giancarlo Succi

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Adopting Open Source Software

A Practical Guide

By: Brian Fitzgerald,Jay P. Kesan,Barbara Russo,Maha Shaikh,Giancarlo Succi

A rich case-study analysis of open source software adoption by public organizations in different countries and settings. Government agencies and public organizations often consider adopting open source software (OSS) for reasons of transparency, cost, citizen access, and greater efficiency in communication and delivering services. Adopting Open Source Software offers five richly detailed real-world case studies of OSS adoption by public organizations. The authors analyze the cases and develop an overarching, conceptual framework to clarify the various enablers and inhibitors of OSS adoption in the public sector. The book provides a useful resource for policymakers, practitioners, and academics. The five cases of OSS adoption include a hospital in Ireland; an IT consortium serving all the municipalities of the province of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; schools and public offices in the Extremadura region of Spain; the Massachusetts state government's open standards policy in the United States; and the ICT department of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The book provides a comparative analysis of these cases around the issues of motivation, strategies, technologies, economic and social aspects, and the implications for theory and practice.

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MIT Press

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0262297345

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Innocent Until Proven Muslim

Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11

By: Maha Hilal

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Innocent Until Proven Muslim

Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11

By: Maha Hilal

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists hijacked four airplanes and carried out attacks on the United States, killing more than three thousand Americans and sending the country reeling. Three days after the attacks, President George W. Bush declared, "This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace." Yet in the days following, Bush declared a "War on Terror," which would result in years of Muslims being targeted on the basis of collective punishment and scapegoating. In 2009, President Barack Obama said, "America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace." Instead, Obama perpetuated the War on Terror's infrastructure that Bush had put in place, rendering his words entirely empty. President Donald Trump's overtly Islamophobic rhetoric added fuel to the fire, stoking public fears to justify the continuation of the War his predecessors had committed to. In Innocent Until Proven Muslim, scholar and organizer Dr.Maha Hilal tells the powerful story of two decades of the War on Terror, exploring how the official narrative has justified the creation of a sprawling apparatus of state violence rooted in Islamophobia and excused its worst abuses. Hilal offers not only an overview of the many iterations of the War on Terror in law and policy, but also examines how Muslim Americans have internalized oppression, how some influential Muslim Americans have perpetuated collective responsibility, and how the lived experiences of Muslim Americans reflect what it means to live as part of a "suspect" community. Along the way, this marginalized community gives voice to lessons that we can all learn from their experiences, and to what it would take to create a better future. Twenty years after the tragic events of 9/11, we must look at its full legacy in order to move toward a United States that is truly inclusive and unified.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506470475

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9781506470474

Beautiful from this Angle

By: Maha Khan Phillips

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Beautiful from this Angle

By: Maha Khan Phillips

En roman fra det moderne Pakistans priviligerede klasse - om sladderspalter, reality TV-shows, ambition, desperation, klasseforskelle, terrorisme og kvinders venskab

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Penguin Books India

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0143068768

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