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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
French Minsiter 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: 03/12/2021The 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: 14/10/2021The 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: 04/05/2021The latest report calls for creating a governmental Open Source Programme Office
New report of the French parliamentary mission led by MP Eric Bothorel on Open Data and Open Source Software has been published. It suggests creating an Open Source Program Office in the government…
NEWSCreated: 20/01/2021Contracting 5 initiative officially launched at Paris OGP Summit
Colombia, France, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Ukraine officially launched the Contracting 5 (C5) initiative during the OGP Paris Summit in December. Formalised in May 2016 at the Anti Corruption…
NEWSCreated: 30/12/2016Bulgaria, France, UK, US support OGP free software policy
The United States of America and three EU Member states - Bulgaria, France and the United Kingdom - have pledged support for the open source policy, making it an official part of the ‘Paris…
NEWSCreated: 09/12/2016Citizen participation, part of the Paris smart city plan
Citizen participation is a key element for Paris to become a smart city, a representative of the General Secretary of Paris’s city hall said. In 2015, the city of Paris launched a project called…
NEWSCreated: 24/02/2016"The France laughed to see it so open in its mirror"
Please note that this in an automatic translation from french to english "Our beautiful country will chair the Partnership for Open Government, established between 65 countries, which promotes open…
NEWSCreated: 11/06/2015Beth Noveck: a better way to govern
Beth Noveck, the former US deputy CTO for open government and currently Director of The Governance Lab at New York University, spoke recently at the "Week of Public Innovation" in Paris. In her speech…
NEWSCreated: 27/02/2015Démocratie Ouverte, first French association to promote OpenGov
Last October, the city of Mulhouse (Alsace, eastern France) was the first French city to join the program Territoire Hautement Citoyens (Highly Citizens Territory - THC) initiated by the French…
NEWSCreated: 23/01/2015