Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore (opens in new tab)

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84 pointsfieryeagle9y ago13 comments

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Interesting! This kind of forking and hopefully inter-government OSS co-operation is exactly what I've been hoping to see.

ivank9y ago

FYI: "Bidders must have a bank account in Singapore to receive payment for work done."

pmontra9y ago

I looked for that on the site and didn't find it. Would you mind linking the page with this statement? Thanks.

ivank9y ago

Hit Sign up, then Authorize with GitHub.

softwarelimits9y ago

And btw it would be very interesting if anybody from the US would like to write a little bit about the role of 18F - I am not sure that I understand things right, but it seems to be a very interesting concept of governmental IT services.

How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated!

Thanks!

andrefrancisco9y ago

Hello! Happy to answer any questions you have about 18F. The basics: we're an office of federal employees inside the General Services Administration that helps other federal agencies improve how they build, buy, and share technology. Other agencies have to pay us for our work, so we operate in a similar way to a private business. You can see a summary of the types of things we ship (with examples) here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/. More info about the micro-purchase platform here https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/micro-purchase-platforms/

*I'm an 18F employee.

softwarelimits9y ago

Thanks for your answer!

I am just looking at this from the viewpoint of an interested citizen (in Europe) and try to compare with how things work here. Currently I suspect we are heavily missing something like 18F.

Do you know what brought 18F into existence? Was this an administrative initiative? Was there big resistence to start that? I am interested in some of the "meta" behind how all that happened.

Also: are there some laws involved?

I guess I could contact your press office, however, maybe you would like to post some interesting links to stories that certainly went unnoticed on the other side of the ocean.

Things like 18F show a very interesting aspect of USA that does not fit into the usual "ultra-capitalist" stereotypes that are painted in the european media much too often. Especially the commitment to OS is extraordinary interesting!

Thanks for your attention!

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yen2239y ago

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

doppp9y ago

It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

Gigablah9y ago

They're alluding to the fact that Gbuy sounds similar to a Hokkien profanity :)

b2m99y ago

Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)

softwarelimits9y ago

Does anybody have a list of similar gov services around the world?

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13 comments

breakingcups9y ago

Interesting! This kind of forking and hopefully inter-government OSS co-operation is exactly what I've been hoping to see.

ivank9y ago

FYI: "Bidders must have a bank account in Singapore to receive payment for work done."

pmontra9y ago

I looked for that on the site and didn't find it. Would you mind linking the page with this statement? Thanks.

ivank9y ago

Hit Sign up, then Authorize with GitHub.

softwarelimits9y ago

How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated!

Thanks!

andrefrancisco9y ago

*I'm an 18F employee.

softwarelimits9y ago

Thanks for your answer!

I am just looking at this from the viewpoint of an interested citizen (in Europe) and try to compare with how things work here. Currently I suspect we are heavily missing something like 18F.

Do you know what brought 18F into existence? Was this an administrative initiative? Was there big resistence to start that? I am interested in some of the "meta" behind how all that happened.

Also: are there some laws involved?

I guess I could contact your press office, however, maybe you would like to post some interesting links to stories that certainly went unnoticed on the other side of the ocean.

Thanks for your attention!

1 more reply

yen2239y ago

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

doppp9y ago

It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

Gigablah9y ago

They're alluding to the fact that Gbuy sounds similar to a Hokkien profanity :)

b2m99y ago

Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)

softwarelimits9y ago

Does anybody have a list of similar gov services around the world?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse