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LV: Ministry of Education approves open source software for schools — published on Dec 04, 2009

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Open source can be used to teach computer science classes to secondary school pupils, Latvia's ministry of Education announced on Tuesday.

LV: Government considers switching to open source — published on Oct 27, 2009

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Latvia will study if it can cut costs by increasing its use of open source software, AFP reported last Thursday.

LV: Ministry studying open source for government mail and groupware — published on Jul 22, 2009

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The Latvian ministry of Regional Development and Municipalities (Raplm) is looking into using open source for all of the government's mail and groupware servers, possibly replacing the proprietary software currently in use. The ministry will make recommendations based on a review of all the server software used by the government.

LV: Baloži city to move to open source desktop — published on Jun 06, 2009

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The public administration of the Latvian city of Baloži will switch to open source software, the administration announced on 3 June.

LV: Minister: "Open standards improve efficiency and transparency" — published on Dec 29, 2008

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Latvia's Minister for Electronic Government Affairs Signe Bāliņa says open standards are key to improving efficiency and transparency in government.

LV: Finance ministry cautions considering Open Source — published on Oct 19, 2008

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Latvia's ministry of Finance says government institutions considering migration to Open Source should do so carefully, reports news agency LETA.

LV: City council to provide OpenOffice courses — published on Apr 29, 2008

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The city council of Ogre is providing free training for OpenOffice, an Open Source suite of office applications, to improve the competitiveness of the local businesses and boost the performance of the local government.

LV: Latvian organisation to promote Open Standards and Open Source — published on Mar 06, 2008

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Nineteen companies, both multinationals and local enterprises, a bank, universities and Open Source developers in Latvia are launching a new organisation to promote Open Standards and Open Source software, the Latvian Open Technologies Association (LATA).

LV: Open Source software meet on digital signatures — published on Aug 10, 2007

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The Latvian Open Source Association, Latvijas Atēvrtā Koda Asociācija, and the Linux Centre of the Latvian University are organising a seminar on the use of eDoc, a national format for digital signatures in Open Source software.