Navigation path

Additional tools

[T] Policies and Announcements

<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : RO: Minister: "Administrations should consider advantages open source"
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 20 November 2010 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
Romania's ICT Minister Valerian Vreme wants the country's public administrations to study the advantages of free and open source software. The minister, speaking to Adevărul, a Romanian daily newspaper, said this type...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : RO: Minister: 'Open source recommended wherever appropriate'
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 24 May 2011 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
Romania's public administrations are recommended to use free and open source software, wherever that is appropriate, the country's minister for Communication and Information Society, Valerian Vreme, explained at a...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : RO: 'Romanian government not against, nor in favour of open source'
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 28 February 2011 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
The government of Romania is not opposed to but also not in favour of using open source software in public administration IT systems, ICT minister, Valerian Vreme, recently remarked in public. However, advocates of free...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : Romania to develop national open source IT policy
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 16 September 2010 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
The government of Romania is considering to develop an IT strategy to increase public administration's use of open source, ICT Minister Valerian Vreme said Tuesday in a press conference. "We will work on a strategy on...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : Russian government to invest in open source desktop
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 28 October 2010 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
The Russian government is planning to invest 150 million rouble (about 3.5 million Euro) in developing an secure open source desktop for public administrations, a Russian business newspaper reported on Wednesday and...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : SE: Framework agreement increases use of open source
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 24 May 2011 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: Communications | Languages:
Sweden's public administrations, municipalities and health care are increasingly turning to free and open source software solutions, following legal clarifications made to a public procurement framework contract....
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : SE: Municipalities ask software vendors to use open standards
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 20 April 2009 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
Nine Swedish municipalities have asked ten software application firms to start supporting OpenOffice. "Together, we ask you to support the document formats ODF and PDF for office documents", the nine begin their short...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : SE: ODF made national standard in Sweden
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 25 September 2008 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week. "Sweden now joins Brazil, Croatia, Italy, South Korea, and South Africa as...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : SE: Researchers: 'Worrying lack of policies on open standards'
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 31 July 2009 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
Management and IT in Sweden's public administrations resist a move to open document formats, say two researchers from the University of Skövde in Sweden, Björn Lundell and Brian Lings. "There is a surprising and...
<a href="/people/11119">Gijs Hillenius</a>
News : SI: Slovenian public administrations moving to open source desktops
Created by Gijs Hillenius | 28 February 2011 | Kudos 1,548
Domains: | Languages:
Public administrations in Slovenia are to increase their use of free and open source software on their desktop computers. Around 2015, 80 percent of the government's offices should be using this type of desktop software...