The government of Hungary is creating a resource centre to help the country's public administrations implement free and open source software and open standards. One of the main goals of the centre is to make public administrations aware of the free and open source alternatives to proprietary ICT solutions.

The competence centre, Szabad Szoftver Kompetencia Központ, is to provide continuity, make information available in Hungarian and help public administrations find fixes for any problem they might encounter.

The savings made possible by switching to open source help to get the civil servants in the city of Miskolc involved and enthusiastic about it, says Dr. János Kovács, head of the IT department. Hungary's fourth largest city reports that it is saving 3000 euro per user per year on licences for proprietary software.

A case study on the migration to open source was published on Joinup on 26 July. "After a false start, the Hungarian city of Miskolc is now in the middle of a transition to an open IT environment."

The savings made possible by switching to open source help to get the civil servants in the city of Miskolc involved and enthusiastic about it, says Dr. János Kovács, head of the IT department. Hungary's fourth largest city reports that it is saving 3000 euro per user per year on licences for proprietary software.

A case study on the migration to open source was published on Joinup on 26 July. "After a false start, the Hungarian city of Miskolc is now in the middle of a transition to an open IT environment."

The savings made possible by switching to open source help to get the civil servants in the city of Miskolc involved and enthusiastic about it, says Dr. János Kovács, head of the IT department. Hungary's fourth largest city reports that it is saving 3000 euro per user per year on licences for proprietary software.

A case study on the migration to open source was published on Joinup on 26 July. "After a false start, the Hungarian city of Miskolc is now in the middle of a transition to an open IT environment."

The Hungarian government is investing 370 million HUF (about 1,23 million euro) in a three-year project to improve applications which use the open document format (ODF). The funds are shared between the software engineering department at the University of Szeged and Multiracio, an open source IT specialist developing EuroOffice, office applications based on LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

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The Hungarian government is investing 370 million HUF (about 1,23 million euro) in a three-year project to improve applications which use the open document format (ODF). The funds are shared between the software engineering department at the University of Szeged and Multiracio, an open source IT specialist developing EuroOffice, office applications based on LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

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Hungary's public administrations will by default use open document standards for their electronic documents, as of April this year, the government ministers agreed on 23 December, and all public organisations are encouraged to move to open source office tools. Hungary's government also in December decided to cancel the funding of proprietary office suite licences for all schools.

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Hungary's public administrations will by default use open document standards for their electronic documents, as of April this year, the government ministers agreed on 23 December, and all public organisations are encouraged to move to open source office tools. Hungary's government also in December decided to cancel the funding of proprietary office suite licences for all schools.

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