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SE: Public administrations lack awareness on electronic documents — published on Jun 15, 2010

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Swedish public organisations lack policies on how to maintain electronic documents, and fail to understand the importance of open standards, researchers from the University of Skövde say in a paper published this month. "This is in stark contrast to stated central government policy."

SE: Losing vendor dependence helps Swedish police save 20 million — published on Nov 26, 2009

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The Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) estimates to save about 20 million euro in the next five years by switching to open source application servers, open source database servers and standard computer server hardware, according to a case study published by the Open Source Observatory and Repository.

European ministers favour open specifications and open source — published on Nov 25, 2009

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European ministers responsible for eGovernment policy of the European Union say the open source model could be promoted for use in eGovernment projects, they said in a statement last week in the Swedish city of Malmö.

SE: 'Swedish public data should be published in open formats' — published on Aug 26, 2009

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Swedish public administrations should publish their data in an open format, says Peter Krantz, a government IT worker, speaking under personal title. Krantz earlier this month launched a website, Opengov.se, showing whether public data is available or not, and listing data formats.

One hundredth software project welcomed on Osor — published on Aug 14, 2009

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The Open Source Observatory and Repository project (Osor) welcomes BIFiP, the one hundredth software project hosted on its development website, the Osor Forge. The Swedish BIFiP project is developing tools to test health information IT-services (Bastjänster för InformationsFörsörjning i Praktiken). It registered on the Osor forge website on 5 August.

SE: Researchers: 'Worrying lack of policies on open standards' — published on Jul 31, 2009

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Management and IT in Sweden's public administrations resist a move to open document formats, say two researchers from the University of Skövde in Sweden, Björn Lundell and Brian Lings. "There is a surprising and worrying lack of policies and strategies available from Swedish local authorities, health regions and governmental organisations."

SE: Municipalities ask software vendors to use open standards — published on Apr 20, 2009

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Nine Swedish municipalities have asked ten software application firms to start supporting OpenOffice.

SE: Joint municipalities studying open source options — published on Nov 28, 2008

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The about eighty members of Sambruk, a Swedish association of municipalities jointly developing electronic services, are debating if and how to use open source for their IT projects. The group started an research and development project to garner support for open source in the public sector.

SE: Disease research centre: 'Open Source statistics can increase number of users' — published on Oct 30, 2008

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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) based in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, says Open Source statistical models will help to increase the number of researchers using these models for analysis.

SE: ODF made national standard in Sweden — published on Sep 25, 2008

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The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.

SE: Police to use Open Source database system — published on Oct 17, 2007

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The Swedish National Police is moving its IT systems over to Open Source. According to a press release by MySQL AB, the Swedish company developing the open source database management system MySQL, the police force will be using its database, the Java application server JBoss, webserver Apache and Suse GNU/Linux.

SE: 'Rising interest in Open Source' — published on Sep 06, 2007

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Sweden's public sector's interest in Open Source is growing, writes Mats Östling, IT-strategist for The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and the Federation of Swedish County Councils in a paper submitted to a Dutch news site on Open Source, Livre.

SE: Standardisation institute: 'Microsoft's OOXML email unacceptable' — published on Aug 30, 2007

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The Swedish standardisation institute SIS said Microsoft's email urging partner companies to register at the OOXML committee and vote in favour of it, is unacceptable.

SE: Swedish army considers server migration to GNU/Linux — published on Feb 15, 2007

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The Swedish army is considering migrating some of its servers to GNU/Linux. How many and when the switch over takes place has not been made public. Earlier this month, GNU/Linux distributor Red Hat announced the armed forces of Sweden is replacing more than a hundred servers running Microsoft Windows NT with machines using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.