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Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment - the Tallinn Declaration
This marks a new political commitment at EU level on significant priorities towards ensuring high quality, user-centric digital public services for citizens and seamless cross-border public services for businesses.
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'Tallinn declaration' commits EU to increase use of open source
"When building or rebuilding ICT systems, public services should make more use of open source software solutions, the Ministers of the European Union Member States and EFTA countries agreed in Tallinn (Estonia) on 6 October. The recommendation is part of the 'Tallinn Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment'.
By signing the Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment, the ministers agree that using open source solutions and open standards helps to avoid IT vendor lock-in. They call on public services to make their ICT solutions publicly available, and to encourage the private sector and civil society to reuse the software."
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:04AM (2 children)
I've met quite a lot of people who choose not to use computers. It's not that they can't afford them - one is a Sheriff's Deputy - but for various reasons they don't want to. I tell them of free programs - such as at the library - that will teach them how, but they don't want to know how.
Such people are unable to avail themselves of eGovernment. It's not that they can't use the computers at the library. It's because they don't want to.
It is because of these people that I'm planning a dead-tree collection of my essays on mental illness [warplife.com].
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @05:46AM
It's frankly absurd such arcane and technical specialist skills are required to vote.
Only monks and clerks need that nonsense, Honest men can trust each others word!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 05 2017, @06:53AM
Which is no reason to force the other people not to use computers either for those services.
It's like declaring that a company should not have a phone hotline because some of their customers prefer written communication.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:38AM
Them who wrote these stuff belong in the b ark, don't they?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:14AM (2 children)
And even that to "open source" rather than free software. Public software should be free software by default and exceptions would have to be explained in detail and rarely granted. But this will not happen because our wondrous governors don't care about the people they supposedly represent.
https://publiccode.eu/ [publiccode.eu]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:12AM (1 child)
I thought I had a quick look on what my government (The Netherlands) has produced in terms of FOSS code. With all the articles mentioning it, it is pretty hard to find projects that were initiated by the government and have a function inside the government.
I found just 1 project (EUPL licensed, not sure if that's FOSS though, but they claim it is): http://www.yourlocalbox.org/ [yourlocalbox.org] (local Dropbox replacement)
But code hasn't been touched in a few months. It seems to provide a backend and a desktop client program and according to the developers there should also be android and iOS app, but that's not in the repo (not open?, they are also developed by other ministries). Not sure if it is actually used as well.
Who knows other examples?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @07:19PM
I did a quick look if I could find anything from the Finnish gov and all I found was some meteorological stuff http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/open-source-code [ilmatieteenlaitos.fi]
Looks like the EUPL is kosher. FSF [gnu.org], OSI [opensource.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @08:08PM
if($gov != null) {
$all_sw = Software::freeSoftware();
} else {
$be_free = 1;
}