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All EU Member States adopted the Strasbourg Declaration outlining the coordination strategy for public administrations.
The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2022
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The French Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the creation of a task force on digital commons.
France and other sixteen Member States will work on a voluntary basis to create a European hub for digital commons as well as identify new financial and human resources to allocate to European open…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2022
The European Commission launched Interoperable Europe, the new policy framework for interoperability in the EU.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, Interoperable Europe builds on ISA2 and puts open cooperation with the Member States at its heart. On 21 November, the European Commission announced the launch…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022
EU study on the impact of open source published
The study on the impact of Open Source Software and Hardware for the European Commission found that open source software and hardware are key for the region's digital transformation and can be a major…
NEWSCreated: 06/09/2021
The EU Digital COVID Certificate is officially on across Europe.
In compliance with the 1 July deadline, all the Member States as well as other non-EU countries effectively connected with the EU Gateway, thus going live with the EU Digital COVID Certificate. On 1…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2021
eHealthFree and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public Administrations+1 topics
ECDC developed epitweetr to find public health signals in the Twitter noise
The value and need for epidemiological threat detection requires little argument in 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic still has a profound impact on our lives and will likely continue to do so for quite…
NEWSCreated: 01/06/2021
The European Commission set up the 1 June as the deadline for the go-live of the Digital Green Certificate.
After the publication of the Guidelines on Technical Specifications for Digital Green Certificates (DGC), it is now up to the Member States to deliver the open source reference implementations for the…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2021
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) published the first results of the X-Road Emissions Calculator Project.
In collaboration with Gofore Plc and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NIIS assessed the environmental footprint of the X-Road ecosystem solution, in order to reduce its CO2 emissions and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2021
The DigitALL Public conference dedicated a full session to the role of open source in the public sector.
By addressing the challenges and opportunities of using open source in the public domain, the session focused on the benefits that public administration could gain from open source and drew ideas to…
NEWSCreated: 04/05/2021
As part of the broader Digital Success Programme, Hungary is implementing the Digital Education Strategy to enhance digital skills at all levels of the national education system.
The Digital Education Strategy is one of the milestones of the Hungarian Digital Success Programme and Open Source represents a fundamental part of it. Digital education is becoming more and more…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2021
X-Road lands in Mexico
Following the widespread success of the open-source software and ecosystem solution X-Road®, the Mexican state of Quintana Roo kicked off “Xacbé”, a new project which will be built on top of the…
NEWSCreated: 16/02/2021
ESOP joins APELL
The Association of Portuguese Open Source Software Companies (ESOP) joins its Finnish, French and German counterparts as a new member of the European Open Source Business Association (APELL). The…
NEWSCreated: 09/02/2021