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How The German Government is Planning for an Open Future
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this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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So I would love if this would be the case (German gov using open soruce software) but tbh this reads like marketing bs to me, sorry. "Aims to transform public administration", "providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative". Yes, good. Nice. Cool. But are any government agencies are actually using it? I feel like if they wpild be they'd surely name them ...
Sleswich-Holstein is one of the first states to ditch Microsoft.
You have to know that all of this takes time. They've decided to follow this path in 2022 and were aiming for the first results to appear in 2025.
Two weeks ago ZenDis launched OpenDesk 1.0. https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/
And I forgot to mention that the French government is on board as well.
They on their side are launching La Suite which is based on the same building block as OpenDesk.
https://code.gouv.fr/en/lasuite/
Some figures for those wondering how broadly adapted this open source suite is.
Tchap: the trusted instant messaging service for the public sector used daily by 200,000 users. An extension of the Albert AI tool is planned for Tchap soon, during the summer.
State audio conference with nearly 8,000 users for 700 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).
State web conference with 47,000 users for 10,000 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).
State webinar: the webinar service which can accommodate up to 350 participants, public officials and interlocutors from outside the State (from the public, private or associative sectors) has recorded more than 800,000 users for 65,000 meetings weekly (2024 figure as of mid-May).
France transfer: the simple and secure solution for sending large files with 140,000 users having exchanged more than 350,000 letters (2024 figure as of mid-May).
Resana, a public sector collaborative platform with 140,000 users and nearly 800,000 documents shared/month (2024 figure as of mid-May).