On 23 May 2012, the city of La Rochelle started 'La Rochelle Open Data', a portal aimed at opening up local government data for public for re-use.

The new Business Service Portal (Unternehmensserviceportal - USP) became fully operational on 23 May 2012. It includes multiple new applications in order to serve as a single entry point for businesses, providing them with online information and a single channel for their transactions with the public authorities.

A €2 million, three to four year framework contract for providing open source IT support was awarded to open source specialist Alter Way, system integrator Capgemini and Java specialist Zenika by Disic, the central IT department for the French government.

The Helsinki city council strongly encourages its IT department to continue with the use of open source software alternatives instead of an IT vendor lock-in. On 13 June 2012, 50 of the city's 85 council members supported a resolution instructing the IT department to keep supporting an open source office suite.

The example of the city of Munich has shown that combining virtualisation and web based applications results in an open and flexible computing platform, independent from IT vendors. Such a switch requires political, management and staff support.

The Latvian Court Administration has implemented the ‘Register of Enforcement Cases’ project, which was developed as part of the European Commission’s specific programme ‘Civil Justice’; its aim is to facilitate the work of bailiffs, speed up the enforcement of court decisions, increase efficiency and reduce the administrative costs.

Starting June 2012, people with a Trusted Profile will be able to access a number of social security services through PUE, the eServices platform of the Social Insurance Institution (Zak

The Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (MTITC) has put the draft National Programme ‘Digital Bulgaria 2015’ to public consultation.