Share and reuse interoperability solutions for public administrations

DG MARKT of the European Commission has recently published a draft version of the Golden Book of e-Procurement good practices. It consists of a set of 24 good practices helping contracting authori ...

A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platfor ...

Two researchers from the Dutch University of Delft chastise the country's Court of Audit's research into the benefits of public administration's use of open standards and open source. ...

The Belgian government "in principle has no objections to sharing its (open source-based) voting computer systems with other public administrations", according to an official at the Mini ...

Governments should encourage the use of free and open source software, recommends Unctad in a report published on 28 November. The United Nation's trade and investment body says that an increa ...

On 19 November, the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS, French Commission Internationale de l’État CiviI - CIEC) successfully organised a well-attended seminar on the ICCS ...

Today, we have published a number of sample descriptions of reusable, open-source software on CENATIC.es and Apache.org in HTML+RDFa, RDF-XML, and Turtle formats. The RDF data were created using t ...

Nine tools built under the OHIM Cooperation Fund with the involvement of more 314 Intellectual Property (IP) and IT professionals from all across Europe went live on the internet on 18 November 20 ...

Rosedu, a group of open source enthusiasts from the University Politehnica in Bucharest, Romania, is starting to introduce high school students in the country to free and open source software. Sup ...

A growing number of public administrations in the French region of Bourgogne prefer to use open source software solutions to provide electronic government services. "Pooling our IT investment ...

The government of Finland should make all software developed for public administrations available as open source, say representatives of the country's open source businesses. The Finnish Centr ...

The German city of Freiburg will end its use of open source suite OpenOffice and is switching back to using a proprietary alternative The city also abandon's its default use of the Open Docume ...

The volunteer organisers of the French free software conference Fossa 2012 are making extra efforts to get school teachers and their pupils involved. The group is contacting many schools in the re ...

ESOP, an association of Portuguese open source service providers, praises the Portuguese government for its decision to choose a single open standard that is to be used by the country's public ...

Open source software is a key element in many of the Smart City projects developed by a group of IT specialists and researchers for the Italian region of Emilia Romagna. Lucia Mazzoni, an IT proje ...

Five civil groups advocating the use of free and open source by public administrations urge the German city of Freiburg to continue to use the Open Document Format as its default format for electr ...

The Greek government is using open source software for its online projects aiming to increase government's transparency. System engineers are using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and other open ...

The Greek School Network is extensively using open source, reports Panagiotis Angelopoulos, an IT engineer working for national ICT technology research institute Diophantus. Free and open source I ...

Joinup, the European Commission's project on the sharing and reuse of software solutions for public administrations, involving open source and semantic assets, now has ten thousand users. &quo ...

Open source developers have already fixed three of the five major problems that are limiting support by open source office suites for Microsoft's proprietary document format OOXML, reports Mat ...