As I blogged last week, it was with great interest that I attended the DSM cloud stakeholders’ meeting which was hosted by the European Commission in the framework of the Net Futures conference.This kick-off meeting for the new platform for cloud stakeholders was attended by around 70 participants; the usual representatives from the previous Cloud Select Industry Groups (C-SIGs) were joined by ... [Continue Reading]
Closure of the C-SIG, new beginnings: will the European Commission rise to the challenge?
Having followed the work of the Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG) for the past 3 years, it is with great interest that I am planning to attend the Net Futures 2017 conference, and the DSM cloud stakeholder meeting in particular.In 2014, the European Commission published its European Cloud Strategy, built on three pillars: standards, safe and fair contract terms and conditions, and a European ... [Continue Reading]
In memoriam: Mel McIntyre (1956- 2017)
It is with huge sadness that I must let you know that Mel McIntyre passed away on Sunday after a long illness.Mel has not only been a long term Director of OFE but personally and through his company OpenApp have been supporters of OFE almost from the beginning. OpenApp built its business in Ireland on the back of Open Source and Mel was a leader in its use in Healthcare. OpenApp is now a European ... [Continue Reading]
A new version of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) – was it worth waiting for?
I have been involved (in a previous life) as manager of the team responsible for the implementation of the predecessors of the present ISA2 programme, in the conception and promotion of previous versions of the document. And, having retired from the Commission in 2012, I have since then been following (as an outside observer) the Commission’s initiatives in the eGovernment area, of which ... [Continue Reading]
The EU should strengthen the use of open source
Open Source Software (OSS) is software that everyone can run, for any purpose; that everyone is free to study and change, so that it functions as they wish; and of which everyone can redistribute copies, for example in order to help others. These freedoms provide huge potential, not least because (subject of course to the existing copyright and patent rights of others) they can allow individuals, ... [Continue Reading]
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