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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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French Minister announces new plan for supporting open source
The Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service of France, Amélie de Montchalin announced a new action plan for open source software in the public sector at the closing of the Paris…
NEWSCreated: 14/12/2021
The EUPL is a "Legal Licence" in France
It may look strange and even quite extraordinary, but until today (December 3, 2021) the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was not yet considered as a “Legal Licence” for use by administrations in…
NEWSCreated: 03/12/2021
The French public administration is opening up public data, algorithms and source codes.
The French public administration outlined the governmental programme for open source, open data and public algorithms. On 27 September, the French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Amélie…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2021
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Parlimentary mission supports open source
In July 2020 the French National Assembly convened a special mission on building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty. The mission has just published its first report last month…
NEWSCreated: 04/08/2021
France recognises open source in its National Plan for Open Science 2021-2024
The French Ministry of Research shared its Second National Plan for Open Science for the years 2021-2024 on 6 July. The Plan foresees several initiatives aimed at increasing the reach of open science…
NEWSCreated: 30/07/2021
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
Lutece: Case Studies on Sustainability of Public Sector Open Source Communities
This is the second of a series of five studies exploring the sustainability of open source software communities in the public sector. INTRODUCTION Lutece is a free and open source portal engine that…
DOCUMENTCreated: 05/08/2020