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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: 21/01/2022
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: 08/12/2021
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: 07/12/2021German 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: 07/07/2021Germany 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: 09/12/2020Digital Public Service Provision Needs Digitally Compatible Law - The Modular Concept of Income
National Regulatory Control Council, Germany The expert report "Digital Public Service Provision Needs Digitally Compatible Law - The Modular Concept of Income" answers the following question: How can…
DOCUMENTCreated: 19/08/2021Bremen pilots the eInvoicing digital turn in Germany
Abstract The State of Bremen (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen), in the north of Germany, is the first of the German Länder to apply the eInvoice European directive, thanks to a pilot project coordinated…
DOCUMENTCreated: 15/05/2018XDOMEA
As a project of the "Deutschland online" initiative, XDOMEA was established for the development and updating of the XÖV standard for IT-based exchange and IT-based transfer of records. It facilitates…
DOCUMENTCreated: 19/11/2009XWaffe
The directive 2008/51/EC, instructs all European Member States to establish a electronic system being able to track the life cycle of a firearm: Member States shall, by 31 December 2014, ensure the…
DOCUMENTCreated: 09/09/2009