Free software use in the public sector

Tryggvi Björgvinsson tryggvib at hi.is
Mon Mar 17 21:42:25 UTC 2008


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Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
| "Carsten Agger" <agger at c.dk> writes:
|> Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the
|> public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years?
|
| The European Commission's IDABC maintain a good list of free software case
| studies:
| http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/470
|
| Some parts of that site unfortunately focus use "open source" terminology,
| but the individual case studies mostly use FLOSS and GNU/Linux 
terminology.
|
| I also compiled a short list before, but I'm not sure if contains 
anything of
| more interest than the EC's list:
| 
https://www.fsfe.org/de/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/free_software_in_public_administration_beta

You might want to add Iceland to that list. Last week the government of 
Iceland released a policy on free and open source software.

http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/information-society/English/nr/2882

/Tryggvi



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