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IT: Public administration's portal builder adds business intelligence — published on Jan 28, 2010

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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.

CH: No settlement between Swiss government and open source suppliers — published on Dec 11, 2009

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The settlement negotiations between eighteen domestic and foreign open source IT service vendors have failed, the Swiss Federal Department for Building and Logistics (BBL) announced on December 9. Their dispute will now go to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.

CH: Parliament members say vendor lock-in desktop is causing chaos — published on Dec 10, 2009

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Members of the Swiss parliament (Nationalrat) say that the government's dependence on a single IT vendor for its desktop operating systems is causing a chaos and is leading to increasing IT costs.

Students line up for new free software master at open universities — published on Nov 24, 2009

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Two of Europe's open universities, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain and Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, are about to start the first courses of what will become a Master programme on free and open source software and open standards, The Free Technology Academy (FTA). The program could prove popular, the number of early registrations shows.

FR: Existing open source portal to be used by Paris region schools — published on Oct 30, 2009

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The 471 schools in the Paris region to be involved in the portal project that was announced earlier this month, will be using Eliot, web-based work-flow software that was originally developed for three schools in the same area.

Open source applications provide government services using mobiles — published on Oct 22, 2009

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The Western Balkan countries could be among the world's first where citizens can use mobile devices to access electronic government services, reports Cordis, the European Union's information service on science, research and development.

NO: Open source resource centre awards Kongsberg municipality — published on Oct 14, 2009

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Norway's Kongsberg municipality is the recipient of the country's first Open Source Software Municipality award, in a ceremony that took place last Monday in the capital Oslo.

NO: Norway's open source centre first to use OSOR search widget — published on Oct 08, 2009

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Friprog, Norway's open source competence centre, will be the first organisation besides OSOR itself to implement the OSOR search widget on its website.

NO: Kongsberg considers English translation course management tool — published on Oct 07, 2009

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The adminstration of the Norwegian region Kongsberg is considering to translate its open source course management tool, Frikomport. "This will increase the number of users and this international access will also help to improve the tool" said Britt Inger Kolset, representative of the Kongsberg region.

CH: Politicians demand more open source in education — published on Sep 08, 2009

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The Swiss Parliamentary Group for Digital Sustainability is calling on the schools in the country to start using open source software in education.

Kosovo: 'Ownership of e-government code a step towards open source' — published on Sep 03, 2009

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The ministry of Public Administration now owns the source code to many of the country's applications that offer electronic government services. This is progress towards open source, said the deputy minister of Energy and Mining, Blerim Rexha, speaking at the Software Freedom Kosova Conference that took place last week in Prishtina. "Previously, the government only had the executables, not the source code."

Tool to analyse maritime traffic risks made available as open source (EUPL) — published on Aug 31, 2009

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Safemed GIS, software that is used to offer web-based risk assessment of maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea, will shortly be made available as open source software, under the EUPL licence.

NO: Government adopts open standards — published on Jul 28, 2009

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The Norwegian public administrations must use ODF and PDF when emailing documents to citizens and enterprises, starting in January 2012. The open document standards are part of a list of IT standards to be used in Norway, the government announced earlier this month.

CH: Court to BBL: 'Continue using proprietary licences at own risk' — published on Jul 03, 2009

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The Swiss government's Department for Building and Logistics (BBL) can continue to use the Microsoft licences it purchased without a public tender earlier this year, but at its own risk, the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland said today.

CH: Politicians push for open source centre for Swiss administrations — published on Jun 22, 2009

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A group of Swiss politicians wants the government to start an open source resource centre, which should assist public administrations moving to open source and open standards.

RU: Schools moving to open source hit by CD and DVD disk errors — published on Jun 22, 2009

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Schools in Russia moving their PCs to open source, have received faulty installation CDs and DVDs, reports Alt Linux, on the IT service providers involved in the project.

CH: Court scraps federal no-bid software licence deal — published on May 28, 2009

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The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland has ruled invalid a software licence contract between a Swiss government agency and Microsoft, the Swiss press agency SDA reported today.

CH: Protests over no-bid software contract in Bern — published on May 28, 2009

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The Swiss open source advocacy group ch/open is objecting the award of a contract worth 27 million CHF (about 18 million euro) of Microsoft software licences by the Swiss canton of Bern, without a public tender.

CH: Government ignores procurement in 28 million euro software deal — published on May 07, 2009

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The Swiss government agency for Building and Logistics (BBL) has signed a software licence agreement with Microsoft worth 42 million CHF (about 27,8 million euro) without a request for tender, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on Tuesday.

CH: Parliamentarians begin group on digital sustainability — published on May 01, 2009

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Six members of the Swiss parliament (Nationalrat) this week formed a group called 'Digital Sustainability' which aims to increase the use of open source software by Swiss public bodies.