Dutch provincial public administrations and organisations are promoting the sharing and re-use of government software solutions, government data and standards. To launch their campaign, a geographic map management system, Flamingo Geo Content Management Systems, is made publicly available.

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Developers and project managers involved in open source software projects for public libraries in Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic last Friday took a first step to learn more about each other's work. Meeting in a Google Hangout, they introduced their open source software projects, aiming to get ideas for future developments.

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Developers and project managers involved in open source software projects for public libraries in Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic last Friday took a first step to learn more about each other's work. Meeting in a Google Hangout, they introduced their open source software projects, aiming to get ideas for future developments.

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Many public administrations don't want to share with their colleagues the software solutions that they paid for, said Mathieu Paapst, a legal researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, in an interview last Thursday. To overcome this barrier to sharing and re-use, the Dutch government should force public organisations to pool IT budgets.

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Many public administrations don't want to share with their colleagues the software solutions that they paid for, said Mathieu Paapst, a legal researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, in an interview last Thursday. To overcome this barrier to sharing and re-use, the Dutch government should force public organisations to pool IT budgets.

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The administration of the Dutch city of Apeldoorn is considering the re-use of a data distribution system built as open source by the city of Rotterdam. Apeldoorn would be the second major municipality, after The Hague, to adopt this open source system. The switch to open source will result in a major reduction of costs and helps the city to battle against IT vendor lock-in, explained Apeldoorn's IT architect, Lex de Wolff.

The administration of the Dutch city of Apeldoorn is considering the re-use of a data distribution system built as open source by the city of Rotterdam. Apeldoorn would be the second major municipality, after The Hague, to adopt this open source system. The switch to open source will result in a major reduction of costs and helps the city to battle against IT vendor lock-in, explained Apeldoorn's IT architect, Lex de Wolff.

The administration of the Dutch city of Apeldoorn is considering the re-use of a data distribution system built as open source by the city of Rotterdam. Apeldoorn would be the second major municipality, after The Hague, to adopt this open source system. The switch to open source will result in a major reduction of costs and helps the city to battle against IT vendor lock-in, explained Apeldoorn's IT architect, Lex de Wolff.

Two researchers from the Dutch University of Delft chastise the country's Court of Audit's research into the benefits of public administration's use of open standards and open source. "It scientific approach is flawed. It lacks a consistent methodology and its results are not accountable."

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Two researchers from the Dutch University of Delft chastise the country's Court of Audit's research into the benefits of public administration's use of open standards and open source. "It scientific approach is flawed. It lacks a consistent methodology and its results are not accountable."

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Two researchers from the Dutch University of Delft chastise the country's Court of Audit's research into the benefits of public administration's use of open standards and open source. "It scientific approach is flawed. It lacks a consistent methodology and its results are not accountable."

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The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment has funded the development as open source of a module, adding asynchronous messaging (Ebms) to users of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus component. The ESB is part of the WSO2 open source middleware solution. The code will be published on 15 December under the Apache open source licence (version 2).

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