EURO-IX, an association of the largest global Internet Exchange Points (IXP), released at the end of August 2012 its annual report, including a listing of the most frequently used route servers in peering centres.

The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) announced that its new Data Centre in Santa Venera, MITA-01, has won the prestigious Public Sector Data centre Project of the Year in the 2012 Datacentre Solutions Awards held on 23 May 2012 in London.

Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making their data publicly available will increase their use of free and open source since open data and open source face comparable threats like initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on organizations, according to a number of experts in open data.

A workshop held by a Group of Swedish Academics in the city of Skövde on Tuesday 14 June 2012 marked the beginning of a three-year research project to build a reference model for open standards and open source,  aiming to improve understanding of open standards and their implementations in open source.

An Internet top-level domain name server (DNS) implementation, developed for Europe's .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD) was made available on 28 June 2012 as open source by Eurid, during a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) taking place in Prague, Czech Republic.

Germany's software applications for procurement will gradually be made available as open source.

The Fire Services in Friesland, a province in the North of the Netherlands, combines many open source components in its system for a real-time analysis of emergency information.

The European Commission's central information service, Europe Direct, is mainly relying on open source tools. Over the past years, the firm running the call centre on behalf of the EC, replaced many proprietary software applications with open source alternatives.