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A first deployment of the plugin for exporting ADMS.SW software project metadata from FusionForge instances in RDF has today been executed on ADULLACT.net. The plugin, developed by Olivier Berger ...

President of Croatia Ivo Josipović appreciates the creative and innovative spirit of the open source community. "What you are doing is something good, creative and innovative", he was qu ...

The Flemish Region has just launched its Intergovernmental Product and Service Catalogue (IPDC). The catalogue's ultimate aim is to allow citizens and companies to more easily s ...

As from today the DCAT Application Profile developed in the context of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme, has entered its public review period. ...

Using open source software solutions helps public administrations to regain their power as customers, says Tariq Rashid of the IT Reform group at the UK Cabinet. It helps them to move from expensi ...

The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year ...

Cenatic, Spain's open source centre, has published a model to help calculate cost savings that are possible by switching to open source software on desktop PCs. The model evaluates costs by ta ...

The Dutch government will use open source software for developing its e-ID card solution. The e-ID plans were presented to the Dutch Parliament by Ronald Plasterk, Minister of the Interior last we ...

The government of Croatia is starting the Working group for the implementation of open source and open standards. The decision to create the working group was taken during the third meeting of the ...

The organisation of the Joinup website will be improved in May. The main goal of our restructuring is to make Joinup easier to use and to navigate. We will provide a simplified, solid structure th ...

Switching to open source-based virtualisation software, allowed the government of the Canary Island to reduce its budget by close to 70 per cent. "Using our previous solution, we expected to ...

At an informal workshop of the OSLO project on March 7 2013, interoperability experts from bpost, V-ICT-OR, the University of Ghent, and the ISA programme gathered to compare international address ...

The European Commission invites metadata experts who directly or indirectly work for a governmental data portal to participate in a Working Group that will define a common model for exchanging ...

AT4AM, software for authoring and management of amendments on parliamentary texts used by the European Parliament, is available as free and open source software. The web site hosting the software ...

At the CESAR workshop of 13 March 2013, Pascale Berteloot and Willem Van Gemert of the EU Publications Office (PO) announced that the PO has recently shared  descriptions of its Named Au ...

Switching to free and open source software contributes to sustainability by making a more efficient use of computer hardware, allowing to use PCs for longer than when following proprietary softwar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, the Core Public Service Vocabulary has entered in public review period. Anyone interested is invited to provide feedback until 27 February 2013 (inclusive). In December 2012, the ISA Progr ...

Poland's Defence Ministry will move to an email and groupware solution based on free and open source, according to the specification in the tender documents, published last November. The docum ...