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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:09pm CET
"Free and open source software enables more effective actions, with a very low cost, when financing small projects for public administrations", says Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria's Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) and professor of Computer Science at University of Perugia. "This type of software is key to the re-use of applications by public administrations."
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:31am CET
Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month.
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:16pm CET
The administration of the Tuscany region in Italy this month published a new version of Sagadb, an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) application.
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Posted: August 6, 2009, 4:04pm CEST
The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source. It is likely that the university will switch its PCs to GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.
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Posted: June 26, 2009, 12:47pm CEST
The Italian government wants to increase the use of open source in schools. The Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta earlier this week announced two pilot projects in school in Rome.
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Posted: June 4, 2009, 1:48pm CEST
The youth department of the public administration of the city of Modena is promoting school students' use of open source software. The department is working with a local training institute, which will start courses on open source this autumn, a local news web site reports.
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Posted: May 25, 2009, 6:21pm CEST
Moving to open source leads to increased cooperation between public administrations, says Carlo Vaccari, manager of software development at Italy's National Institute of Statistics, Istat.
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 9:40pm CEST
The administration of the Italian city of Trento is moving to an open source voice over IP (VOIP) telephone system based on Asterisk.
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 3:07pm CEST
The administration of the Italian city of Trento is moving to an open source voice over IP (VOIP) telephone system based on Asterisk.
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 12:20pm CEST
The administration of the Italian city of Trento is moving to an open source voice over IP (VOIP) telephone system based on Asterisk.
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Posted: May 15, 2009, 5:47pm CEST
The Italian chapter of Plonegov, an international project to develop open source e-government applications using the Plone open source content management system, was launched officially today at a conference in Sorrento, in southern Italy.
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Posted: April 22, 2009, 2:03pm CEST
Two parliament members of the Italian Democratic Party want Italy's public bodies to favour free software. By 2012 all IT systems should be based on such software, MPs Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati proposed in a bill last month.
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Small grants can jump-start open source development projects that are useful for public administrations and schools and universities, a grant program in Italy's Umbria region shows.
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"Open source applications needs to be used wherever appropriate, according to our regional law on information technology pluralism", said Bruno Salomoni, head of the IT department at the administration of the Veneto region in Italy, at a conference last week. He called on local public bodies to investigate how much of their software development may be reusable by other public administrations.
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The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region in September will begin a Centro Regionale per l'Open Source Software (Cross). The project, based around a website letting IT companies offer Open Source services, is meant to encourage small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to use Open Source software and interact with the public administration.