Building a market for FLOSS: The OSOSS project in the Netherlands

Posted by hkwint on Oct 9, 2007 4:22 PM EDT
IDABC - European e-Government services; By Karsten Gerloff, UNU-MERIT 		Mail this story
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Urging public administrations to use Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open standards is one thing. Getting them to really take the jump is quite another. In the Netherlands, the OSOSS programme is helping ministries and municipalities to make their IT strategies more open. Its goal is to create a level playing field for FLOSS solutions, and to boost the local economy and the Netherlands' capability for IT innovation.

[Interesting read, the 'federal' Dutch government seems to have ignored open source a lot, but at the same time it is used more and more at the municipal level, thanks to OSSOS amongst others. - hkwint ]

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