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The Netherlands Competition Authority does not recognise any infringement of competition in the sharing of Open Source software by a public administration
The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has upheld its decision not to investigate allegations that several municipalities in the country are unfairly competing with software companies by…
NEWSCreated: 09/01/2023Updated Date: 26/01/2023
Open Panorama and Amsterdam’s open source software methods
The City of Amsterdam has a website dedicated to open source software methods, on how to create healthy code, contribute, use and reuse the repositories. Open Panorama is one of ten projects featured…
NEWSCreated: 04/08/2021Updated Date: 09/08/2021
The Netherlands investigates steps for better engagement with open source communities
To increase the competence in the usage of new technologies, a Digital Government Directorate under the Ministry of the Interior is being formed in Netherlands. At the same time, the Dutch government…
NEWSCreated: 15/04/2021Updated Date: 16/04/2021
The Netherlands is advancing the digitalisation of the government by turning open source theory into practice.
As part of its Digitisation Strategy, the Dutch government launched its new open source toolbox, which includes useful information for civil servants to switch to open source, as well as a…
NEWSCreated: 15/04/2021Updated Date: 15/04/2021
Open enables public sector digital transformation in the Netherlands
Citizens expect well-functioning digital services from their government. Until recently, municipalities in the Netherlands were held back in providing these services by fragmented systems that would…
NEWSCreated: 07/04/2021Updated Date: 07/04/2021
Dutch government to evaluate software development process following success of Corona app
The success of the open source software development process for the Dutch Covid-19 track and trace app is prompting the government to consider the same procedure for other projects, State Secretary…
NEWSCreated: 16/10/2020Updated Date: 16/10/2020
The Dutch government releases a guide on local practices of digital participation
Netwerk Democratie, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relation’s programme for “Democracy in Action”, and the Interreg Like! project of the European Regional Development Fund partnered to…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2020Updated Date: 11/05/2020
Dutch government encourages public services to share their software source code
The Dutch government wants the country’s public services to share as open source any software solutions that are written for or by them. “My appeal to public services is to release the source code…
NEWSCreated: 20/04/2020Updated Date: 20/04/2020
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
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: 01/08/2019Updated Date: 02/08/2019
City of Nijmegen reinvigorates OSS policy, forcing interoperability
Nijmegen, the oldest and 10th largest city of the Netherlands, is reinvigorating its open source policy. Last month, the City Council unanimously adopted the resolution 'Nijmegen digitally independent…
NEWSCreated: 20/02/2019Updated Date: 05/04/2019
Renewed push for adoption of ODF document standard
The Document Foundation, the organisation supporting the development of LibreOffice, is calling for supporters to promote the use of Open Document Format (ODF). Standardisation organisation OASIS…
NEWSCreated: 09/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019