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New Open Source Strategy for German State of Saxony
The Parliament of Saxony, one of Germany’s 16 federal states, has adopted a motion to develop an Open Source strategy (press release) to counter the issue of the administration’s increasing…
NEWSCreated: 07/12/2022Updated Date: 07/12/2022
New rules will be adopted by “traffic light” coalition that will be major boon for open source
The new German federal government is in office since early December and promises to give open source in the biggest EU Member State another boost, with a number of new commitments. Open source will be…
NEWSCreated: 21/01/2022Updated Date: 21/01/2022
A new open source based workstation should help digitise and make the German public administration more sovereign
The German federal government signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate with nine of the German states to create a "sovereign workstation", built on open source software. This initiative…
NEWSCreated: 08/12/2021Updated Date: 16/12/2021
German state should invest €10m to strengthen open source community and improve security
Open source software is digital public infrastructure, yet it is not receiving the funding necessary to ensure the sustainability of important projects. Based on this assumption, a feasibility study…
NEWSCreated: 07/12/2021Updated Date: 08/12/2021
German health professionals will communicate with each other through the open source Matrix protocol
Gematik, the provider of digital solutions for the German health care system has chosen the open source Matrix protocol to underpin Germany’s new instant communication platform, which will be used by…
NEWSCreated: 06/08/2021Updated Date: 06/08/2021
Caritas Deutschland has turned to open source for its online counselling platform.
The registered charity German Caritas Association switched to open source for its platform dedicated to the provision of online counselling services. In doing this, it calls for a growing involvement…
NEWSCreated: 16/07/2021Updated Date: 16/07/2021
From an open source idea in 2012 to (almost) reality today on public administration’s computers
Since the idea arose in 2012, Schleswig-Holstein has slowly but steadily moved toward open source solutions in the public sector. Along with other states in Germany, Schleswig-Holstein works for…
NEWSCreated: 14/07/2021Updated Date: 14/07/2021
German government executes OSS-based vision of digital sovereignty
The German government is taking the next steps to fulfil its commitment of increasing the level of digital sovereignty of its public sector. In a recent decision, the Conference of the IT Coordinators…
NEWSCreated: 07/07/2021Updated Date: 07/07/2021
Databases for word-to-sign language help create an inclusive society
Sign language has its own grammar, which might be far from the local spoken and written language. Word-to-sign databases include deaf people and help people who wish to learn sign language (for…
NEWSCreated: 03/06/2021Updated Date: 03/06/2021
City of Dortmund commits to preferring open source
In what was likely the biggest success of the independent civil society organisation Do-FOSS, the city council of Dortmund adopted two resolutions, setting out the goal for the city to make the use…
NEWSCreated: 03/05/2021Updated Date: 03/05/2021
German private contract tracing app becomes open source after being procured by regional governments
One of the positive developments of COVID-19 was a readjustment toward the expectation that government developed apps using sensitive data should be made available as open source. The OSOR has…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2021Updated Date: 31/03/2021
Several federal states in Germany are speeding up the digitalisation of the education system by using UCS@School.
The open source software product UCS@School is widely applied in the response to the need of German schools to cope with the COVID-19 crisis by providing educational institutions with a large array of…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2021Updated Date: 12/03/2021