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Hungarian developers launched a website that provides Ukrainian asylum seekers with useful information to facilitate the border crossing into Hungary.
By providing essential information on a large array of topics, ranging from medical and legal aid to accommodation, education and pets crossing, this initiative aims to support Ukrainians entering…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022Updated Date: 30/05/2022
As part of the broader Digital Success Programme, Hungary is implementing the Digital Education Strategy to enhance digital skills at all levels of the national education system.
The Digital Education Strategy is one of the milestones of the Hungarian Digital Success Programme and Open Source represents a fundamental part of it. Digital education is becoming more and more…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2021Updated Date: 12/03/2021
Hungary and Open Source: the Digital Success Programme 2030
In the wake of the Digital Success Programme 2030 implementation, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology has supported several Hungarian SMEs to develop a new Open Source (OSS) operating system…
NEWSCreated: 01/02/2021Updated Date: 01/02/2021
Open source at Hungary’s public service university
Open source is commonly used on the servers at Hungary’s National University of Public Service (Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem, or NKE). The university is looking for IT support services for the Debian…
NEWSCreated: 27/08/2020Updated Date: 27/08/2020
Open source Drive-through Testing Software for COVID-19
The Hungarian start-up Rollet released a free and open source software solution named NOÉ for administering in-car COVID-19 testing. Already in use in Budapest, the open source software is available…
NEWSCreated: 07/08/2020Updated Date: 07/08/2020
Hungarian tax authority wants source code for system upgrade
Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA) is looking for software service providers to upgrade its central tax information exchange system. The NTCA currently uses a mix of proprietary…
NEWSCreated: 17/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Hungary government withdrawing from OGP
This month, the government of Hungary has sent the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) a letter announcing its immediate withdrawal from the partnership. The move was a…
NEWSCreated: 31/12/2016Updated Date: 31/12/2016
Hungary withdraws membership from Open Government Partnership
Hungary has decided to withdraw its membership from the OGP, following a disagreement with the OGP Steering Committee on a report. Hungary became a member of the OGP in 2012 and submitted two national…
NEWSCreated: 30/12/2016Updated Date: 30/12/2016
Hungary aims to get rid of IT vendor lock-in
Hungary’s central government wants to reduce its dependency on a handful of IT vendors. To begin with, a decision taken last week aims to reduce the use of a proprietary office productivity suite by…
NEWSCreated: 15/11/2016Updated Date: 15/11/2016
Hungary seeks nationwide, open source eLearning tool
Municipalities in Hungary should be able to use modern, web based eLearning tools to train their staff. To make this possible, Hungary’s State Treasury is looking for a service provider to help them…
NEWSCreated: 02/11/2016Updated Date: 02/11/2016
Hungary to increase use of open source software
Open source office alternatives on government PCs The government of Hungary intends to increase public administrations’ use of open source software and open standards. A decree published on 18 May…
NEWSCreated: 20/05/2016Updated Date: 20/05/2016
Hungarian Post charging high costs to frustrate right to public information
Hungarian Post (Magyar Posta) has asked HUF 68 million (about 218 thousand Euro) to make information on its contracts available as open data. The issue was brought before Péterfalvi Attila, President…
NEWSCreated: 03/05/2016Updated Date: 03/05/2016