On Monday, the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, announced a pilot open-source programme to count killings by police around the country.
Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers (and one that even runs on a few aficionados' desktop computers).
Others, including University College London and the University of Bristol, have worked on an open-source curriculum programme, the CORE project (Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics), which takes a restructured approach to the format of the traditional economics degree.
Last August IARPA, an American-government technology-development agency for the intelligence services, started the Open Source Indicators programme.
However, after finding that real-life data lacked the software to make it accessible to the public he developed GeoServer, an open source software programme written in Java, making geo-spatial data publicly available.
In so doing, he indirectly refers to the Dutch government's Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSOSS) Programme.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
Software developed by the BBC for operation on its platforms is available to all suppliers as open source, allowing access to the programme codes, and enabling external suppliers to bid to develop content applications for the BBC's platforms.
Heather Leson is a programme manager and community builder for global open source projects.
Policy One policy recommendation for these types of programmes is the use of free and open source software.
The engineering of a free open source simulation modelling platform is the basis of the DREAM project, a Framework Programme 7 initiative co-funded by the European Commission.
