Following the example of Munich, the German city of Hamburg ICT solutions could migrate to free software and open source, if the proposal is approved Green Party (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) The group has organized a conference on 21 October in cooperation with the Open Business Alliance (OSB) to discuss opportunities for software code open for business, society and government.
“Digital sovereignty and the advantages and challenges of a transition toward open source are discussing the matter” and addressing “why Germany is lagging behind in the use of open source,” explained from the Green Party and have asked the President of the Commission of Justice and Consumer Protection of the Federal Bundestag, start a debate on “advances in digital consumer protection in the context of open source.”
The group has requested the use of free software in Hamburg says “open source enables innovation and increases safety and autonomy. The city administration should emphasize this when you have to choose ICT solutions. We want to lead by example. We want a strategy that includes abandoning the proprietary software used by the government of Hamburg, “say from the German Green Party, with strong presence in all German administrations.
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