Italy

IT: Public administration's portal builder adds business intelligence — published on Jan 28, 2010 Read comments (None yet): The Java Agile Portal System (jAPS 2.0), open source software designed to help Italy's public administration's build specialised websites, is about to get boosted with open source business intelligence (BI) options.
Bologna achieves vendor independence for its office applications — published on Dec 03, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The administration of the Italian city of Bologna has almost completed its move to OpenOffice. Most of the 3600 PCs now run this open source suite of office applications. The administration is planning to move more applications to open source, aiming to become less dependent on specific IT vendors.
IT: 'Open source key to software re-use of public administrations' — published on Nov 18, 2009 Read comments (None yet): "Free and open source software enables more effective actions, with a very low cost, when financing small projects for public administrations", says Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria's Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) and professor of Computer Science at University of Perugia. "This type of software is key to the re-use of applications by public administrations."
European governments help increase ODF interoperability — published on Nov 17, 2009 Read comments (1 so far): Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month.
IT: Open source GIS Tuscany for government, libraries and health care — published on Oct 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The administration of the Tuscany region in Italy this month published a new version of Sagadb, an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) application.
IT: University of Verona moving to open source desktop — published on Aug 06, 2009 Read comments (2 so far): The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source. It is likely that the university will switch its PCs to GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.
IT: Italian government to increase use of open source in schools — published on Jun 26, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The Italian government wants to increase the use of open source in schools. The Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta earlier this week announced two pilot projects in school in Rome.
IT: Youth department city of Modena organises open source classes — published on Jun 04, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The youth department of the public administration of the city of Modena is promoting school students' use of open source software. The department is working with a local training institute, which will start courses on open source this autumn, a local news web site reports.
IT: Statistics institute: moving to open source increases cooperation — published on May 25, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Moving to open source leads to increased cooperation between public administrations, says Carlo Vaccari, manager of software development at Italy's National Institute of Statistics, Istat.
IT: City of Trento moving to open source IP telephony — published on May 20, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The administration of the Italian city of Trento is moving to an open source voice over IP (VOIP) telephone system based on Asterisk.
IT: Plonegov Italy officially launched — published on May 15, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The Italian chapter of Plonegov, an international project to develop open source e-government applications using the Plone open source content management system, was launched officially today at a conference in Sorrento, in southern Italy.
IT: Democrats want public administrations to favour open source — published on Apr 22, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Two parliament members of the Italian Democratic Party want Italy's public bodies to favour free software. By 2012 all IT systems should be based on such software, MPs Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati proposed in a bill last month.
IT: Small open source grants involve public bodies and schools — published on Apr 09, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Small grants can jump-start open source development projects that are useful for public administrations and schools and universities, a grant program in Italy's Umbria region shows.
IT: Head of IT Venice region: 'Open source wherever appropriate' — published on Mar 17, 2009 Read comments (None yet): "Open source applications needs to be used wherever appropriate, according to our regional law on information technology pluralism", said Bruno Salomoni, head of the IT department at the administration of the Veneto region in Italy, at a conference last week. He called on local public bodies to investigate how much of their software development may be reusable by other public administrations.
IT: 'Open source IT system management software is mature" — published on Feb 11, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Cmdbuild, open source software to manage the configuration of IT systems, is mature, says Antonio Scaramuzzi, head of the IT department at the administration of the Italian city of Udine. "Cmdbuild has made a jump in quality."
IT: 'Open standards the best option for E-government plan' — published on Jan 26, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Using open standards and open source is the best option for Italy's plans to modernise government, improve education and cut costs, says the Italian open source advocacy group Associazione per il Software Libero.
IT: Venice region settles on open source and open standards — published on Jan 23, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The Veneto Region, around the Italian city of Venice, has decided to move to open source software and open standards, the Italian Internet news site Zeus reports.
IT: City of San Giorgio begins migration to open source office — published on Dec 18, 2008 Read comments (None yet): The Italian city of San Giorgio a Cremano is considering to migrate to Openoffice, an open source office automation suite. The city will also assist local schools in using educational open source software, in cooperation with Open Mind, a local non-profit organisation.
IT: open source infrastructure for Calabria region — published on Nov 30, 2008 Read comments (None yet): The Italian region of Calabria has recently completed a consolidation process of it's IT infrastructure, choosing an open source platform, the Italian website Pubblica Amminnistrazione reports.
IT: Successful open source workshop on Sardinia — published on Nov 18, 2008 Read comments (None yet): The open source workshop that took place last week in the city of Pula on the Italian island Sardinia was a "beautiful experience", said Flavia Marzano, one of the organisers. The event on 13 and 14 november drew 152 attendees.

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