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See also: Reasons for public administration to use Free Software.

Europe

Austria

• Vienne: Vienne to migrate to OpenOffice.org and GNU/Linux

Belgium

• 2006-07-23: Belgian government chooses OpenDocument

• 2008-10-01: Ministry of Justice: Half of all desktop PCs at ministry of Justice migrated to GNU/Linux

Denmark

* 2009-04-22 Municipality uses OpenOffice and saves a million DKK per year

France

• Agriculture Ministry: "Le ministère de l'Agriculture fait un pas vers (GNU/)Linux"

• National Assembly: "(GNU/)Linux s'installe dans les PC des députés"

• Gendarmerie nationale (national police): La gendarmerie nationale passe à OpenOffice (update: Gendarmerie saves millions with open desktop and web applications

• Tax administration: one PDF and another

Finland

• 20090225: Government encourages open source use by public administrations

Germany

There is a KBSt letter from 2000 about Free Software. There is also a list of Free Software projects in the German adminstration on KBSt's website Software/OSS-Kompetenzzentrum/Projektsammlung (currently not reachable, asked via e-mail about new location)

• Federal administrations:

  • Federal Foreign Office: a blog and another and an update from OSOR

  • 20090220: BMI invests in "open source" (German)

• Local adminstrations:

  • Munich (City): Declaration of Independence: The LiMux Project in Munich and Munich picks GNU/Linux

  • Schwäbisch Hall (City): info in German and in English

Hungary

• 2009-04-12: Government decides that spending on proprietary software cannot excede spending on free software

Iceland

• Iceland governments Free Software policy

Italy

• National Council for IT: "free software usage observatory"

• South Tyrol public transport: "free software since 1993"

• South Tyrol: "use of OpenOffice.org" and "and also GNU/Linux"

• All Italian-speaking schools: "they all use project FUSS"

• 2009-03-17: IT: Head of IT Venice region: 'Open source wherever appropriate'

Netherlands

• The Netherlands Patent Office changes to open source software

• impementing strategy by NOIV (netherlands) German news entry by heise.de

Norway

• 2008-11-17: seattletimes.nwsource.com: Norway encourages use of open source software

• 2007-12-21: Open document standards to be obligatory for state information (implemented 2009-01-01)

Russia

• 2009-03-02: Russian Government IT Development Strategy: Free and Open Source Software (en); http://cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2009/03/11/340321 (ru); http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2009/13929.html (de)

Spain

• The Spanish IT competence centre CENATIC has published a detailed report on the use of Free Software in the Spanish public administration. It has lots of example cases, as well as analysis of legal aspects and a look at strengths and weaknesses. Should make an interesting read.

• LWN article on GNU/Linux in Spain (Debian news entry about the same subject)

United Kingdom

• Birmingham libraries: "report of failure"

• 20090225: Government to actively and fairly consider open source solutions

Africa

South Africa

• South Africa’s IT agency to migrate to open source in coming year (short article in German)

Asia

China

• China's use of free software

India

• One year of Free Software implementation in ELCOT - the score card

Vietnam

• The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an instruction on using open source software products at state agencies (via this article in German)

South America

Argentina

• Municipality of Rosario: "Ordenanza Nº 7787 / 2004"

Brasil

• Brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to GNU/Linux

Ecuador

• Success for free software in Latin America!

Venezuela

• Jeff Zucker's 2005 status description

• http://www.migrandovenezuela.org/index.php?title=Portada Migrando Venezuela

North America

Mexico

• Gobierno GDF/Linux

Canada

• 20090205: Canadian government eyes open source, asks for feedback

Further information sources

• Debian in the Public Sector

• The European Commissions IDABC list of case studies

• (French) Migrations vers les logiciels libres

• Cases of official recognition/adoption of F/OSS

• Study on the: Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU (Pro-Linux article about the study in German)

• A study of the Fraunhofer institute documenting the advantages of "open source" software, Nov 2006 (German)

• "Open Source" Observatory and Repository for European public administrations

• oss-watch.ac.uk collection of "open source" policies

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