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eGovernment services at EU level

Posted by Herbert Gassner at Mar 14, 2010 | Permalink

Herbert GASSNER and Mark SHUTTLEWORTH
at the Open World Forum in Paris on 2 October 2009

In the Communication "The role of Government for Europe's future, COM (2003) 567 final of 26 September 2003, eGovernment is defined as the use of information and communication technologies in public administrations combined with organisational change and new skills in order to improve public services and democratic processes and strengthen support to public policies.

eGovernment services and large-scale projects at EU level (examples):

EURES - European wide job search portal
PLOTEUS - European training opportunities database
SOLVIT - solving administrative obstacles in EU cross-border procedures
PEPPOL - Pan European Public Procurement Online Project
SPOCS - Simple Procedure Online for Cross-Border Services (pilot project)

EIS - European Interoperability Strategy

adoption of the Interoperabilty Decision in July 1999 by the Council and European Parliament (1720/1999/EC) = IDA
decision 2004/387/EC = IDABC ("Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens"). IDABC is managed by the European Commission's Directoraqte General for Informatics and is an eGovernment programme set up under the EU decision of 21 April 2004.
SEMIC - "Semantic Interoperabilty Centre Europe" (shares interoperabilty assets and tools to save time and money)

The EU and Open Source

OSOR - the "European Open Source Observatory and Repository" - supports the sharing of FLOSS-based eGovernment applications and the use and re-use of publicly funded software across Europe. It is financed by the European Commission and managed by its Directorate General for Informatics. The symbol of the OSOR project which was kicked off in January 2007 is the bee. In the first month of operation, its website received more than 50,000 visits.

QUALIPS - the "Quality Platform for Open Source Software" - was founded at the end of 2006 and launched as an EU-supported IST initiative.

EUPL - the "European Union Public Licence" - has been approved as a licence to be used for the distribution of software developed in the framework of the IDA and IDABC programmes of the European Commission. This copy-left licence was officially adopted by the European Commission on 9 January 2007.

Dr, Herbert GASSNER

Freie Software in Österreich - ein kurzer Überblick

Posted by Herbert Gassner at Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink

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Zusammenfassung eines Vortrages, den Dr. Herbert GASSNER am 2. Oktober 2009 in Paris gehalten hat (in englischer Sprache)

Offene Standards

Posted by Herbert Gassner at May 23, 2009 | Permalink

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Linux läuft auf großen und kleinen Systemen, seine Modularität erlaubt eine Anpassung an jede Größe. Linux ist auch hervorragend für den Betrieb von Cloud-Applikationen geeignet. Mit dem "Open Cloud Manifesto" wollen rund 40 Anbieter, IBM inklusive, die Interoperabilität von Cloud-Anwendungen erhöhen.

Öffentliche Ausschreibungen und Open Source

Posted by Herbert Gassner at May 23, 2009 | Permalink

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Am 14. Mai 2009 hielt ich einen sehr gut besuchten Vortrag im Technologiezentrum Eisenstadt über die rechtlichen Aspekte des öffentlichen Vergabewesens in Österreich. Welchen Stellenwert hat Open Source-Software bei Vergabevorgängen öffentlich-rechtlicher Rechtsträger? Eine kurze Analyse: