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Council of Swiss city of Bern to battle IT vendor lock-in

Politicians and city council members in the Swiss city of Bern on Thursday formed a group for Digital Sustainability, that wants the city's IT to become independent of IT vendors and introduce IT solutions that are sustainable in the long-term.

2012-04-27, by Vysocina

Survey: Open source procurement costs less and reduces vendor lock-in

Lower costs of procurement and getting rid of IT vendor lock-in are the two main benefits of using free and open source software, concludes a survey conducted among public administrations across Europe. Sharing applications and customisation of software are two other important arguments for public authorities to switch to this type of software.

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2012-04-25, by Vysocina

OSEPA Open Source Policy Statement

Dear FOSS supporters,

You are invited to promote open source by signing the Open-Source Policy Statement. OSEPA consorcium intends to influence relevant policy makers in favour of FOSS, the European Commission in particular. By endorsing the OSEPA Open Source Policy Statement, you contribute to making FOSS a recognized and viable alternative of software procurement. If you would like to show your support, please download and sign the OSEPA Open Source Policy Signature Sheet. Send a scan of the signed document to mutlova.r@kr-vysocina.cz. You can also find OSEPA statement here http://www.petitions24.com/osepa_foss_policy_statement

Thank you for your interest!

Best regards,

Renata Mutlova
Odbor informatiky
Krajsky urad Kraje Vysocina

TOP BEST CASES

Touristic web portal

Organisation:Jihlava/Vysocina Region, Czech Republic

Vysocina Tourism, an allowance organisation of Czech Republic, started in March 2007 to study the possibility of creating a touristic web portal based on OSS tools in order to reduce licensing costs. Five months later, the Vysocina Tourism implemented the touristic web portal. Read More ...

Migration to OSS in desktop PCs and servers

Organisation:City of Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

In 2001, as the support for the operating system and the office application, which have been used up to then, was discontinued by the software suppliers and the City of Schwäbisch Hall would have to pay substantial license fees for the hardware and software upgrade, the IT department of the City of Schwaebisch Hall decided to assess new alternatives. The positive experiences with OSS in the past encouraged the administrators to use OSS also for the equipment of the future workplaces. Read More ...


The Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC, financed by the European Union's Regional Development Fund, helps Regions of Europe work together to share experience and good practice in the areas of innovation, the knowledge economy, the environment and risk prevention.EUR 302 million is available for project funding but, more than that, a wealth of knowledge and potential solutions are also on hand for regional policy-makers.