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Ten Member States have joined the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI), built on TESTA.
The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) is the data communication network service lying at the digital core of the EU4Health Programme, and interoperability is the…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2022Updated Date: 24/03/2022
CollaborationFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+3 topics
All EU Member States adopted the Strasbourg Declaration outlining the coordination strategy for public administrations.
The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2022Updated Date: 22/03/2022
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The French Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the creation of a task force on digital commons.
France and other sixteen Member States will work on a voluntary basis to create a European hub for digital commons as well as identify new financial and human resources to allocate to European open…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2022Updated Date: 23/02/2022
The U.S. Department of Defence has published new guidelines for the internal use of open source for cyber defence purposes
The U.S. Department of Defence CIO urged the Department to prefer open source over proprietary solutions. On 24 January 2022, the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) Chief Information Officer John…
NEWSCreated: 16/02/2022Updated Date: 18/02/2022
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+2 topics
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
The European Commission launched Interoperable Europe, the new policy framework for interoperability in the EU.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, Interoperable Europe builds on ISA2 and puts open cooperation with the Member States at its heart. On 21 November, the European Commission announced the launch…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022Updated Date: 17/01/2022
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment
A new open source based workstation should help digitise and make the German public administration more sovereign
The German federal government signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate with nine of the German states to create a "sovereign workstation", built on open source software. This initiative…
NEWSCreated: 08/12/2021Updated Date: 16/12/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment
German state should invest €10m to strengthen open source community and improve security
Open source software is digital public infrastructure, yet it is not receiving the funding necessary to ensure the sustainability of important projects. Based on this assumption, a feasibility study…
NEWSCreated: 07/12/2021Updated Date: 08/12/2021
The French public administration is opening up public data, algorithms and source codes.
The French public administration outlined the governmental programme for open source, open data and public algorithms. On 27 September, the French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Amélie…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2021Updated Date: 14/10/2021
CollaborationFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+1 topics
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: 20/08/2021Updated Date: 23/08/2021
The EU Digital COVID Certificate is officially on across Europe.
In compliance with the 1 July deadline, all the Member States as well as other non-EU countries effectively connected with the EU Gateway, thus going live with the EU Digital COVID Certificate. On 1…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2021Updated Date: 11/08/2021
Open data developments and directive transposition
The Polish Parliament unanimously voted for the law transposing the directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information on 23 July. Back in 2016 we wrote about the public consultation…
NEWSCreated: 06/08/2021Updated Date: 06/08/2021