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HR: Croatia standards institute approves ODF — published on Apr 08, 2008

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The Croatian Standards Institute (Hrvatski zavod za norme, HZN) confirms it is approving the Open Document Format ODF as a national standard.

HR: Open Source professor honored — published on May 20, 2008

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Mario Zagar, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb was awarded Croatia's annual Open Informatics award last April. The annual award is given to Croatians contributing to the promotion, development and use of Open Standards and Open Source.

Netherlands publishes open source tools to help start EU business — published on Nov 30, 2009

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The Dutch government is about to publish as open source OS Toolbox PSC, a set of software tools that EU member states can use to offer or improve their single point of contact for entrepreneurs that want to start business or offer their services anywhere in the EU. The software will be made available on the OSOR Forge, the open source software repository and development platform of the European Commission.

Macedonia to supply all school with GNU/Linux desktops — published on Sep 25, 2007

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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will deploy 180.000 computer workstations to all schools, running the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu and virtual desktop technology by NComputing.

HR: OpenOffice manuals for all state employees and teachers — published on Nov 08, 2007

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All state employees and teachers in Croatia will this month receive manuals for OpenOffice, an Open Source suite of office software applications. The government hopes the manuals will foster the use of Open Source software.

IS: One in four secondary schools to join open source project — published on Oct 27, 2009

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Already nine out of Icelands 35 upper-secondary schools have expressed interest to participate in Iceland's project on open source in education.

HR: Cautious start for open standards in new e-Government policy — published on Feb 27, 2009

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Croatia's government has taken a cautious next step to ensure its electronic government services will use open IT standards. Five of the ten principles in effect describe open standards.

HR: Croatia government organises Open Source conference — published on Apr 15, 2008

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The Croatian government is one of the organisers of the Open Systems Day, a three day conference taking place in Zagreb this week. It hopes to increase awareness for Open Source applications in both the public and private sector.