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The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has established an award for innovative open data applications. The Stuiveling Open Data Award, which is named after Saskia Stuiveling, the outgoing President of th ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 29 June 2015

The government of Galicia (Spain) has made available three open source solutions over the past year, one for PC classrooms, one for land-management, and a third for computer network enhancement. The t ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 29 June 2015

While there are some signs of improvement, Sicily is still far from having implemented Open Government mechanisms, according to a report published by the Department for European Studies and Internatio ...

News | Created by Cyrille Chausson | Published: 24 June 2015

The Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has announced a plan to replace proprietary software with open source and locally produced software. The plan is one of the measures aimed at pr ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 23 June 2015

The 'Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik' (BSI, the German Federal Office for Information Security) qualifies ownCloud as a modern, internet-based successor to the proprie ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 20 June 2015

The European Commission this week published an update to its eGovernment report. The previous report was from 2014. The factsheet update is the last in the suite of 35 covering eGovernment in ...

News | Created by Nifo Editor | Published: 18 June 2015

Ships in the Arctic and Antarctic are turning to using open source software that helps them navigate near or in sea ice-infested waters. This year, the tools are to be used by the Swedish icebreaker O ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 17 June 2015

On Wednesday, June 17, the Open Overheid (Open Government) agency, part of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, is organising a consultation event to gather input for the next OGP ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 16 June 2015

The Dutch government has prepared a new Trade Register Law that will effectively forbid free re-use of the register data of its Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, KvK). In response to an inter ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 12 June 2015

France’s nuclear energy and defence research institute CEA is looking for help with maintenance of Postgresql, an open source relational database management system. The institute this week publi ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 11 June 2015

As of today, 8 June 2015, the current release v0.9.0 beta of the European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA) enters an eight-week public review period. Stakeholders working for public admi ...

News | Created by Eia Team | Published: 08 June 2015

The government of the autonomous region of Galicia (Spain) is inviting the region’s universities to nominate open source projects for its annual Best Project award. The first prize is EUR 1500 a ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 07 June 2015

Public administrations should actively participate in communities France’s public administrations are encouraged to increase their use of free software, announces DISIC, the inter-ministeria ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 04 June 2015

The United Kingdom has revised its Digital Service Standard, which describes the components for building eGovernment services. The update came into effect on 1 June, and is to be used for new and rede ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 01 June 2015

Bulgaria has just published the first datasets on its open data portal. Currently, about 36 datasets from 26 public agencies have been made available online. The organisations involved were summoned t ...

News | Created by Adrian Offerman | Published: 30 May 2015

Joinup reaches over 27,000 registered users. Every month, over 150,000 visitors from across the globe browse through our website. They check out the news, read up on Public Sector modernisation, searc ...

News | Created by Joinup Editor | Published: 27 May 2015

The Portuguese Institute for Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU) provides an app on protected sites The iGEO Património app allows users to explore the cultural heritage sites of Portu ...

News | Created by Nicolas Loozen | Published: 27 May 2015

The combination of open source and open standards ensures long-term preservation of electronic records and prevents IT vendor lock-in, says Luciano Ammenti, head of the IT department at the Vatican Li ...

News | Created by Gijs Hillenius | Published: 22 May 2015

France will chair the Open Government Partnership from October 2016 to October 2017, after the OGP Steering Committee accepted France’s application at a meeting in Mexico on April 24. France, r ...

News | Created by Cyrille Chausson | Published: 20 May 2015

On May 6, 2015 the ISA Programme of the European Commission hosted the 2gr workshop on core data models for public administrations. The workshop was held in Riga, back-to-back with the 5th conference ...

News | Created by Stefanos Kotoglou | Published: 15 May 2015