FLOSS, The Right Way To Do Policing IT In Belgium (and EU IT)
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FLOSS, The Right Way To Do Policing IT In Belgium
A corollaries to the “no vendor lock-in” part are that organizations have total control of IT and cooperating developers/organizations are united rather than divided by “the vendor”. The world can and does make its own software for less than the monopolists would. There’s just no reason at all that the world should pay multiple times over the cost of developing software when they can do it themselves.
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Belgium police sharing and reusing web technology
Belgium’s police forces are increasingly switching to open source web technology. The federal police and already 49 local police forces across the country are using the openpolice.be platform for their websites. In total 126 of police websites in Belgium are reusing and sharing the platform.
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Ukrainian eGovernment website run by volunteers
Services provided by Ukrainian ministries and governmental agencies are now accessible online, using the volunteer-run igov.org.ua eGovernment portal. The site is an of Ukrainian citizens’ initiative that is being assisted by some government agencies, according to press reports.
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In the introduction to their portal, the volunteers explain that their aim is to fight government corruption and speed-up business processes in the Ukraine’s public institutions. The group is looking for volunteers with experience in developing IT solutions, inviting them to register. “When public services are transferred to electronic form, they become more transparent and formalised. No longer requiring meetings also takes away the possibility of government officials demanding bribes.”
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Norway updates list of IT procurement templates
The Norwegian government has updated its IT procurement templates, Difi, the country’s Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, announced on 2 July. New provisions in the so-called State Standard Agreements should make it easier to request and offer standardised products and services, and the templates no longer distinguish between large and small contract agreements.
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Study: Cross-border health care directive ‘unknown’
Patients need to be made aware of the possibilities of cross-border healthcare in EU Member States, according to a study commissioned by the EC on the transposition of the Cross-border Care Directive. “The implementation could benefit from more targeted and regular publicity and communication activities”, the study writes. “Evidence indicates that demand for cross-border healthcare would be larger should the patients be made aware of the possibilities offered.”
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Study: Points of Single Contact ‘perform mediocre’
The performance of Europe’s Points of Single Contact is mediocre, according to a study commissioned by the EC and published on 29 June. All PSCs score about average in an evaluation of the quality and availability of information. Similarly, tests of their online administrative procedures and the accessibility for cross-border users show the PSC are falling short of their goal.
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