Share and reuse interoperability solutions for public administrations

Poland's Ministry of Economy will make available the source code that it wrote for linking its back office to a site built with the open source content management system Drupal. The site is us ...

More than 150 people have registered for the 3rd edition of the Semantic Interoperability Conference - SEMIC 2013. The registration period is extended until 19 June – 1pm CET.  SEMIC 2 ...

The German state of Berlin continues to promote companies and public organisations to use software solutions based on open source and open standards. Open IT Berlin, its two-year old umbrella orga ...

The French government ministries for Environment and Agriculture are testing InGeoClouds, offering public on-line access to European geospatial information. The cloud service is based on open sour ...

Slovakia's Supreme Court will intervene in a battle between a textile trader and the country's tax office over a mandatory tax-application that requires the use of a proprietary operating ...

On 2013-06-14 a second deployment of the plugin enabling the export of ADMS.SW RDF software project metadata from FusionForge instances, was realised on Alioth (alioth.debian.org). The implement ...

Administrative and technical boundaries prevent Brussels Region from making its FixMyStreet implementation available to the Flemish and Walloon Regions. The region is willing to share with the oth ...

Yesterday, 13 June 2013, the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU rules on the re-use of public sector information.   The new Directive updates the 2003 Directive on Public ...

A proposal by the Greens in the parliament of the German State of Berlin, to switch to using open source for the senate's IT systems, was rejected this Monday. The state government coalition p ...

EC ISA Action 1.1 on Semantic Interoperability is calling for case studies on Linked Government Data to be included in its study on “business models for Linked Open Government Data (LOGD)&rd ...

The German parliament is asking the government to prevent patents being granted for software. Last Friday, the Bundestag adopted a joint motion to make copyright the exclusive method for protectin ...

For a mere 35 000 euro a group of nine Swedish municipalities has implemented Fixa min gata', their equivalent of Britain's FixMyStreet. The solution will be made available to all S ...

Spain's ministry of Finance and Public Administrations is offering other Spanish public administrations to use its email, calendar and address book services. The solution is built using free a ...

The switch by the Italian region of Umbria to the free and open source office suite LibreOffice is one of ten award winners at this year's Forum PA conference on 30 May. "Its achievements ...

A rapidly rising number of software service providers is willing to offer support for the implementation or integration of Al Sigm, a system to manage complex procedures, that is developed by Spai ...

Last week saw the publication by W3C of two vocabularies initially developed under the ISA Programme. This is just the leatest development in the ongoing work that is clearly related very closely ...

Kramerius, an open source database application and content management system was award this year's Infoforum Award, at the eponymous conference, which took place in Prague on 21 May. "The ...

The use of open source software for Geographic Informations Systems is widespread in Europe, says Paolo Cavallini, an expert on open source GIS. Within Europe, Italy plays a very important role. T ...

Today, Ordnance Survey announced the launch of its renewed Linked Data service. Ordnance Survey,  the UK's national mapping agency, has published three OS Open Data products as ...

The government of Sweden is about to build a prototype of an IT system to help reduce the administrative burden. The government wants to make sure that companies need to submit information to the ...