According to an announcement made in late April 2013 on the website of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, the latest release of the European Commission’s Internal Market Information System (IMI) has been launched.

The Spanish Open Data portal, datos.gob.es, has recently published its software code in the open source forge managed by CENATIC.

The European Commission invites metadata experts who directly or indirectly work for a governmental data portal to participate in a working group that will define a common model for exchanging information about data sets between data portals in Europe.

On 21 December 2012 the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude unveiled the list of the first wave of public services, which will be digitalised by 2015. The new digital services will give the public quicker and more convenient services suited to the 21st century, and will save taxpayers up to £1.2 billion (approx. €1.4 billion) by 2015 and around £1.7 billion (approx.

Nine tools built under the OHIM Cooperation Fund with the involvement of more 314 Intellectual Property (IP) and IT professionals from all across Europe went live on the internet o

With the establishment of the Secretariat General for the Modernisation of Public Administration (Secrétariat général pour la modernisation de l'action publique - SGMAP, in French) on 30 October 2012, the Government confirmed its intention to continue its open data strategy in order to facilitate the broader reuse of public information produced by the public administration.

Released on 17 October 2012, GOV.UK is the new online home of government services and information. This is the first phase in the creation of a single platform for government, addressing the needs of users previously served by the Directgov and Business Link websites.

On 12 September 2012, Europeana, Europe's digital library, opened up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. This initiative will create new opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators.

On 26 July 2012, the Governor of the Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED), Dr. Elias Kikilias presented the eGovernment and financial management information systems of OAED to the Chairmen of the Social Partners, as well as its transition into a new era of automated services.

On 17 July 2012, the European Commission adopted a Communication that sets out open access policy objectives for the research funded by the Commission through ‘Horizon 2020’.

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.