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posted by mrpg on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
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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."


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:12AM (#592466)

    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?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @07:19PM (#592611)

    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]