On February 7, during the conference "Building Europe's Digital Sovereignty", the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Henri Verdier, and sixteen Member States (now nineteen) signed a declaration creating a working group to support the development of the digital commons within the European Union.
On the occasion of theDigital Assembly co-organized in Toulouse on June 21 and 22 by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, the working group submitted and made public a report on the digital commons,
Eight of the countries that signed the declaration report on their initiatives and policies for developing the digital commons.
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Germany
Germany promotes digital commons and open source software with the overall goal of digital sovereignty in Europe.While the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action focuses on the digital sovereignty of the European economy, the Federal Ministry of the Interior focuses on the digital sovereignty of public administration.
The Sovereign Technology Fund (STF) aims to become the meeting place of the open source community at the national and European level. It offers different funding modes to meet the specific needs of different Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) core technologies and their developers.
Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration ("ZenDiS"): in order to ensure the availability of modern and scalable open source software solutions and to promote the use of open source software in public administration, this organization founded in 2022 will link public administration with the actors of the open source ecosystem and coordinate the development of open source IT solutions. Initially, the center will manage the "Open CoDE" and "Sovereign Workplace" projects.
Open CoDE: Open CoDE is a platform for public administration to ensure the exchange and reuse of free software.
Sovereign Workplace: In order to ensure independence from proprietary software solutions (e.g. MS Office), the German public administration will have an alternative to the currently established workplaces. The Sovereign Workplace will cover all relevant functions required by the public administration on the basis of open source software: productivity (word processing and spreadsheets), collaboration (joint editing of shared files) and communication (aufio and video conferences). The main objective is to have a first integrated working version of the Sovereign Workplace available by the end of 2023.
Estonia
Openness, open source and interoperability have been one of the guiding principles of Estonia's digital transformation over the past twenty years.- Estonia has launched jointly with Germany, ITU and the Digital Impact and Alliance the GovStack initiative " to accelerate the spread of digital public services".
- Together with Finland and Iceland, Estonia co-funds the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions {NIIS) which manages X-Road and other cross-border digital infrastructure solutions.
- By 2023, 40 open-source artificial intelligence solutions and bricks (which can be integrated into other digital tools and services) will be developed and made available as digital public goods. Notably the government chatbot Bûrokratt.
Finland
Finnish innovation fund Sitra promotes a fair data economy based on European values.Sitra's Fair Data Economy Framework, called the IHAN Blueprint, is an open-source, technology-agnostic software infrastructure for consent-based services in a data-sharing ecosystem for end-users, service providers and data suppliers.
In the area of mobility data, Fintraffic is leading a national project to build a traffic data ecosystem.
The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications launched a logistics digitization strategy in 2020 coordinated by a CaaS Nordic ry association.
Finland also participates in Gaia-X as part of the European digital infrastructure.
Suomi.fi is the national portal of online services of the administrations. Intended for citizens, companies and administrations, it allows access to the administrations' online services with a unique identifier.
The Avoinkoodi.fi website lists open source software from national government, local government and the education sector. The Finnish Center for Open Systems and Solutions (COSS) maintains it.
France
In November 2021, the Government launched an Action Plan for Open Source Software and the Digital Commons.On April 27, 2021, the Prime Minister made public the circular for a public policy on data, algorithms and source codes.
The free software and digital commons action plan aims to support the use of free software in the administration, to develop the opening of source codes in the public sector and to strengthen the attractiveness of the State-employer based on open source.
In parallel with the action plan for free software and digital commons, the French government is implementing the action plan for an open government 2021-2023.
Italy
In 2017, Italy had launched Developers ltalia, an initiative to enable all public and private developers to collaborate in an open source ecosystem dedicated to the development of public technologies and their integration into digital, public and private services.Together with its counterpart Designers ltalia, it can count on the participation of over 20,000 professionals. In 2019, this initiative has been expanded to include a catalog of hundreds of open source software and other digital commons that are freely available to the public and businesses today.
This coincided with the publication of national guidelines on how public administrations should ensure that new digital projects, including new software, would be published as digital commons.
Since 2021, this catalog has become European, with open governance shared among several member states, creating what is a de facto repository of European software that is published as a digital commons.
Italy has also introduced an "open data by default" policy that provides that all publicly generated data is, unless otherwise specified, automatically published under a permissive open license.
Ireland
Ireland's Office of Government Chief Information Officer is working to align its digital architecture with the open source GovStack initiativeSlovenia
In 2019, the Ministry of Culture launched a project for the "Development of the Slovenian language in the digital environment - language resources and technologies". By ensuring free access, use and reuse of the results of the work, it enabled research organizations, companies and the public sector to develop language services and "overcome language boundaries in a digital environment".The machine learning software, Orange, developed since 1996 by the University of Ljubljana and the Jozef Stefan Institute is used as a platform to test new machine learning algorithms and to implement new techniques. In the educational system, it is used to teach machine learning and data mining methods to students.
COVID-19 Tracker: the project collects, analyzes and publishes data on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Slovenia.
The Open Data Portal of Slovenia, OPSI, allows publishing open data sets for the whole public sector: government and local authorities.
Sweden
The Digital Government Agency {DIGG), which is responsible for coordinating the digitization of public administration in Sweden, has adopted an open source policy in 2019. It states that administrations should, as a first choice, consider an open source solution and that anything developed by public authorities should, if possible, be shared under an open source license if possible. In addition, for those authorities that develop software building blocks for the Swedish digital infrastructure, it is strongly recommended that they share their work in open source so that others can use it.In 2020, an open collaboration network - Network Open Source and Data (NOSAD) - was created to help and encourage the public sector to take the necessary steps to increase the availability and use of open data and open source code. The network is also open to the private sector, civictech and academia. The network. NOSAD is growing with over 500 members collaborating and sharing ideas.