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EU grant allows Denmark to develop method to prioritise revision of legislation
The Danish Agency for Digitisation has received a grant of 600,000 EUR from the European Commission to develop a new method in collaboration with the OECD, for finding and prioritizing existing…
NEWSCreated: 11/03/2022Updated Date: 31/03/2022
Check the new release of Vocbench, a platfom for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2021Updated Date: 30/09/2021
Evaluating two years of digital-ready legislation in Denmark
Since 2018 it has been required that new legislation presented before the Danish parliament is digital-ready. This means shaping the rules in compliance with principles encouraging the use of data…
NEWSCreated: 23/08/2021Updated Date: 01/09/2021
Denmark has begun working on a guide on the use of open source within the public sector
June 8th it was decided by the Committee on Architecture and Standards under the Danish Agency for Digitisation to create a joint guide on the use of open source in the Danish public sector. The…
NEWSCreated: 16/08/2021Updated Date: 10/03/2023
A successful year for a self-service and webforms solution in Denmark
The Danish self-service solution, which places public self-service first and webforms second, has had a great year. Organisation around it has become more stable and with the coming features 'Flow' it…
NEWSCreated: 15/12/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
A Danish story about user management across all organisations
Digital identity and right management are the foundation for the security component OS2faktor. The aim is to make it possible to use for instance a municipality login for a regional login page…
NEWSCreated: 08/12/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
A Danish open source data processing platform
Datatidy is an Open Source data processing motor for public organisations. It was released in September by a collaboration between cross-public organisations in Denmark. Datatidy makes is eaier to…
NEWSCreated: 01/12/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
The implementation of a system used by close to 80% of Danish municipalities
OS2kitos provides enormous value when the system is implemented, however, it does require some work by the municipalities in the implementation process. 77 of the 98 Danish municipalities use OS2kitos…
NEWSCreated: 24/11/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Other countries reuse Danish open source tool to scan for GDPR compliance
Public services in Greenland, Sweden and soon maybe even Germany are reusing OS2datascanner, Denmark’s GDPR compliance scanner. The software generates reports on compliance with Europe’s data…
NEWSCreated: 31/08/2020Updated Date: 18/09/2020
Denmark’s OS2 clarifies the legal basis for open source in municipalities
Municipalities using and contributing to open source are balancing their financial, legal, and social responsibilities, concludes a legal note written for OS2, Denmark’s community of public services…
NEWSCreated: 14/07/2020Updated Date: 15/07/2020
GIS video tutorial attracts municipalities from across Europe
An online training course on gvSIG - an open source geographic information system (GIS) - continues to attract new users from Europe and across the globe. Over the past two years the gvSIG Association…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020Updated Date: 24/04/2020
Open source tools adopted by seven European cities to fight construction and organic waste
Launched in 2019, the EU-funded CityLoops project aims to tackle the issue of excessive construction and organic waste, which are two of the most significant urban material flows. Using the principles…
NEWSCreated: 19/02/2020Updated Date: 19/02/2020