EU: 3.3 million to continue projects on open source and reusable data
The European Commission is planning to spend 3.344 million Euro until 2016 to continue the services provided by its projects - such as OSOR.eu and Semic.eu - on open source and on electronic data exchange.
The EC published the budget details last week Thursday for its e-Government project. Apart from the 3.344 million Euro planned for the new platform to provide collaborative services for current Semic.eu and OSOR.eu users, another 8.8 million Euro are foreseen to provide support for existing and future communities around eGovernment in general, including the growing Open Source community on OSOR.eu and the community around interoperablity assets on Semic.eu.
The continuing support of these communities are part of the 'Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations' (ISA) work programme, that aims to increase electronic cooperation among public administrations in the member states. The ISA work programme, developed by the Commission and the member states, was adopted last week by the Commission. The EC has reserved about 160 million Euro for ISA over the next five and a half years.
The ISA work programme will run until the end of 2015, ensuring the services currently offered by the OSOR. ISA will for instance continue to collect open source solutions and continue to work with international, national and regional open soure software repositories.
Key areas
Sharing best practices and raising awarness on open source and interoperability will accompany the three key ISA projects. ISA main activities are intended to create a trusted information exchange (including the development of an electronic identity and electronic signature), to develop an interoperabilty architecture and to assess the IT implications of new EU legislation.
More information:
ISA (Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations)
Semic
OSOR
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