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Checking in on the implementation of the Italian open source procurement and reuse law.
Italy’s law favouring open source software in public procurement and sharing of code is generally considered to be a good example of primary law. Yet, the law is also thought to have had little real…
NEWSCreated: 20/08/2021
The 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: 04/05/2021
The Italian government releases user-centric public services application
In 2018, the Italian government launched the IO App, an open source application that aims at regrouping public services and making them available to citizens through a user-centric app. The IO App was…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2020Italy’s Digital Republic includes threatened South Tyrol school project
The project behind South Tyrol’s use of open source in schools has joined the Italian Digital Competence Coalition, an initiative by the country’s Ministry for Technological Innovation and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2020Italy says it will share source code of Covid-19 track-and-trace app
The government of Italy will publish as open source the source code of a smartphone application developed to track and trace the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the country. The app was commissioned…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020GIS 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: 24/04/2020Thanks to open source, locked down schools in South Tyrol continue classes
Locked down because of the Corona epidemic, schools in northern Italy’s South Tyrol have moved to online classes thanks to BigBlueButton, an open source webconferencing solution. ICT service providers…
NEWSCreated: 03/04/2020Italy’s Team Digitale becomes permanent project
Team Digitale, the Italian government’s digital transformation team, will become part of a new department in the prime minister’s office, as of 1 January. The team’s activities are expected to…
NEWSCreated: 17/12/2019Threatened South Tyrol open source school project wins SFScon award
South Tyrol’s use of open source in its Italian-language schools was awarded the SFScon award last week. The use of free and open source is of “fundamental importance for public service projects that…
NEWSCreated: 20/11/2019Italy’s growing catalogue of open source software
There are now 42 open source software solutions available in Italy’s Catalogo del riuso (Reuse Catalogue), announces Developers Italia, the developer arm of Team Digitale, the country’s digital…
NEWSCreated: 07/09/2019Italy’s top financial inspectors to include public sector software reuse in their audits
Italy’s Court of Audit (Corte dei conti), which monitors public finances, will be including in its audits the savings generated by all of the country’s public services that share software created by…
NEWSCreated: 23/08/2019Italian town to increase use of open source
The Italian town of Montelupo Fiorentino is expanding its move to open source, following a decision by the town’s council. This year, the IT department aims to switch some 90% of all its PC…
NEWSCreated: 27/02/2019