Finland’s public services will stop using proprietary software and will adopt Open Source solutions. That is the intention of the new Government, officially constituted on June 6 and whose program plans the implementation of Open Source software for IT systems of public administrations and praises the benefits of open programming interfaces and open data.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of United States is committed to develop a 100% Open Source voting system to restore citizens’ trust in the counting system. The objective of this project is to shield the system to prevent hacking and allow citizens to verify that their votes are recorded correctly.
At the end of last week the Asturian parliament marked a milestone in the adoption of Free Software in Spain. The majority of the deputies voted “yes” to the proposal made by the Pica Pica HackLab group so that the administration of this autonomous community joins the international campaign Public money? Public Code! launched by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).
Like every month, we’re collecting here the most read articles in our blog. This past January, our followers were first interested in the release of the new version of the VDI and vApp connection broker UDS Enterprise 2.2.1.
The next topic that aroused most interest was the Free Software University Contest called by several Spanish university centers.
In third position, the use of virtual desktops by the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) to resolve certain technical limitations and thus be able to successfully perform the public exams to the auxiliary staff of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.
The Government of France has launched an interesting initiative to promote the development of Open Source software nationwide. It is called “Blue Hats, hackers of general interest” and is a community made up of software developers and IT specialists from within and outside the public sector interested in contributing to Open Source projects promoted by the central administration.
