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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
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
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsOpen government+2 topics
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
Launch of the Digital Government Transformation MOOC!
Get a 5 Online Continuing Education Units certificate on Digital Government Transformation in one month!
NEWSCreated: 03/09/2020Updated Date: 14/09/2020
Fight against Covid-19: Germany organised "We vs Virus" hackathon
From the evening of Friday 20/3/2020 to Midnight 22/3/22, Germany organized the WirVsVirus (WeAgainstVirus) hackathon (http://www.wirvsvirushackathon.org). This document has been written by our…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2020Updated Date: 30/03/2020
Germany publishes English version of quality of life report
In June, the German federal government published an English version of its Government Report on Wellbeing in Germany ('Gut leben in Deutschland'). The interactive report is a benchmark for successful…
NEWSCreated: 04/09/2017Updated Date: 04/09/2017
German parliament approves law enforcing eIDAS
On 21 June, the German parliament (Bundestag) accepted the government’s eIDAS implementation act, confirming the enforcement of rules on electronic identification and trust services for electronic…
NEWSCreated: 27/06/2017Updated Date: 17/06/2018
European IT security talents preparing for contest
Teams of budding IT security specialist have begun preparing for the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC). The 150 winners from national competitions will gather for the final tournament, to be…
NEWSCreated: 31/05/2017Updated Date: 31/05/2017
Germany unveils security requirements for govt browsers
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published the minimum requirements for web browsers to be used on workstations of the federal government, in order to achieve a minimum…
NEWSCreated: 29/04/2017Updated Date: 29/04/2017
Germany wants to simplify eGovernment services
Germany is aiming to make eGovernment services and online business transactions simpler, and more secure. One way to achieve this is to create trust services, electronic signatures and registered…
NEWSCreated: 28/04/2017Updated Date: 28/04/2017
Study: Germany behind in eGovernment
Germany has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to eGovernment, a study by the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) shows. The number and quality of eGovernment services is low…
NEWSCreated: 28/02/2017Updated Date: 28/02/2017
Germany and Italy to cooperate on standardisation
The governments of Italy and Germany will intensify their cooperation on ICT standardisation, the two agreed on 18 January at a conference in Berlin. The countries want to advance the digital single…
NEWSCreated: 26/01/2017Updated Date: 26/01/2017