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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
Caritas Deutschland has turned to open source for its online counselling platform.
The registered charity German Caritas Association switched to open source for its platform dedicated to the provision of online counselling services. In doing this, it calls for a growing involvement…
NEWSCreated: 16/07/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+1 topics
German 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: 07/07/2021
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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: 03/05/2021
German private contract tracing app becomes open source after being procured by regional governments
One of the positive developments of COVID-19 was a readjustment toward the expectation that government developed apps using sensitive data should be made available as open source. The OSOR has…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2021
European TSO's go open source in building the smart electricity grid
RTE and TenneT, the two largest European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs), will discuss their digitalisation and open source strategies in a webinar on 8 August 2019. Both operators…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2019
Integreat: Case Studies on Sustainability of Public Sector Open Source Communities
This is the first of a series of five studies exploring the sustainability of open source software communities in the public sector. INTRODUCTION Integreat is an open source digital integration…
DOCUMENTCreated: 30/06/2020