OSS Center has been carrying out the field tests to prove OSS usability at the local governments and schools.

This year the following 4 local governments are tackling the field tests.

• Verification of effects by introduction of OSS into remote multi-sites of Waterworks Bureau. (Sapporo City, Hokkaido)
• Verification of migration to the OSS based system for the entire procedures of the town hall. (Ninomiya-machi, Tochigi-ken)
• Verification of OSS desktop usability using network boot environment. (Tsukumi City, Ohita-ken)
• Verification of interoperability of the various terminal environments on the backbone system for business operations. (Urasoe City, Okinawa-ken)

In the OSS field tests at schools in fiscal year 2004, we verified the utilization of various e-learning contents which were provided by software houses and the utilization of multi-media learning reports which summarized learning results on personal computers. In addition to the above tests, we also carried out the broad verification tests utilizing OSS where schools collaborated with each other, such as the sharing of learning records by a database management system, and joint learning with other schools by using e-mail and a Bulletin Board System (BBS).
These results were published as a booklet "Let's Introduce an Open Source Computer to Schools!"