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Munich's Long History with Open Source in Public Administration
Munich's Long History with Open Source in Public Administration IntroductionThis case study is a retrospective on the policies and use of open source solutions in public administration in the German city of Munich, based on desk research and interviews with employees of the Munich City Hall’s IT Team, it@M.1 Munich has a 25+ year history of open source in public administration.2 As early as the 90s, the city used open source solutions for its webapps and the internal phone book.3The urban population of over 2.2 million4 is serviced by its it@M department. it@M employs about 1,240 developers…
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