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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Germany trials X-Road to provide interoperable digital prescriptions
In times of COVID-19, trustworthy, interoperable public sector solutions are of special importance. Germany is trialing further digitisation of its healthcare and is relying on X-Road® data exchange…
NEWSCreated: 09/12/2020Updated Date: 15/12/2020
German universities call on government to support Open Source
Over the course of 20 years, alliances of German public universities developed Open Source learning software that now power 90% of German universities. They now call on politicians to support the…
NEWSCreated: 07/12/2020Updated Date: 07/12/2020
Belgium saved 85% of development effort by forking the German COVID-19 app
By basing Coronalert on the German Corona Warn App, Belgium achieved reduced costs, development time and gained transparency. Earlier this week, an article on the OSOR reported on COVID-19 tracing…
NEWSCreated: 12/11/2020Updated Date: 12/11/2020