Share and reuse interoperability solutions for public administrations

Adullact, the French association of civil administrations working on free and open source software, is revamping its services. It recently added new online applications, including Slow, for submit ...

The European Commission is asking for new ideas on how to use ICT to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of public sector and public services. The EC has made available an online pub ...

The Swiss Canton of Bern has decided to switch to Open Justitia, a management system for legal documents, developed as open source by the country's Federal Court. The canton procured support f ...

The government of the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia is considering to switch to open source office productivity tools. The region's Agency for Technological Innovation and the Galician ...

The overall goal of this release is to improve compliance with the BusDox specifications. The following features will be implemented for the CIPA e-Delivery Access Point v1.1.0 release on 31 May ...

Very interesting read: Today the UK shared their cost benefit case, they set out for the open standards policy. You can find it incorporated in the Bournemouth University study undernea ...

The Latvian Open Technology Association is calling on the Ministry of Economy to make open standards and open technologies one of the core themes of the ministry's business education efforts. ...

Using technical specifications to discriminate ICT solutions continues to be a widespread practice within the EU, says Openforum Europe, advocating the use of open standards in ICT. Publishing the ...

Joinup federation of semantic asset repositories and the Open Metadata Registry (OMR) started a cooperation project in February 2013. The cooperation has the ultimate goal of exchanging metad ...

The Italian city of Udine has been using open source solutions wherever possible for years. The city's IT department can rely on many local IT service providers. It is also supported by the un ...

Public administrations that want to make sure that IT solutions they are procuring can be shared and re-used, can now choose from six standard 'contract clauses'. The clauses are published ...

Communities of developers of free and open source software can create their own governing laws, using more than just their software licences, say two Irish researchers Ian Ó Maolchraoibhe a ...

Estonia's Ministry of Education and Research is funding the development of open source tools for linguistic analysis. It recently published a procurement request for software tools that integr ...

Learning management systems are slowly becoming a standard teaching tool in the schools in the French speaking part of Belgium, results of a survey show. Claroline and Moodle, two open source e-le ...

The government of Hungary is creating a resource centre to help the country's public administrations implement free and open source software and open standards. One of the main goals of the ce ...

A conference on biometrics, identification microchips and smart cards earlier this month awarded the Smart Open Service for European Patients project. This is one of the EU's Large Scale Pilot ...

Open standards and the compatibility of data and IT systems are two of the core themes of a network of municipalities, founded last week Thursday. The new organisation is called Linked Organisatio ...

Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic is providing support to a conference organised by two free and open source advocacy groups, the Croatian Linux User Group (Hrvatska Udruga Linux Korisnika, HU ...

A report on the use of free software and open standards by the European Parliament is being written, says Alexander Alvaro, Vice-President of the European Parliament. "The first steps were ma ...

Insight into what UK public servants really think about open data and data standards is published in the first ever benchmarking survey, instigated by the Reference data standards hosting and mapp ...