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The German Federal Development Portal
The German Federal IT Cooperation (FITKO) develops the Federal Development Portal as a part of the IT Planning Council project “FIT-Connect the Federal”. This portal (source code licensed under the…
NEWSCreated: 01/06/2022
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+2 topics
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: 21/01/2022
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment
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: 08/12/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment
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: 07/12/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+1 topics
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: 07/07/2021
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: 12/03/2021
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: 09/12/2020
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: 07/12/2020
AlekSIS, the Free School Information System
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the utility of school management systems, facilitating communication between distant students and teachers, as well as transparency of the educational relationship…
NEWSCreated: 16/11/2020