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The big impact of the EIF on European competitiveness
Jochen Friedrich's Open Blog- The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) in its version 1.0 which was published more than half a decade ago has been a great success, no doubt. I have said so before and keep repeating it. With EIF v1.0 Europe took global leadership on interoperability. And on openness.
EIF v1.0 took a clear stance on
open standards for eGovernment services with a straight forward open
standards definition. And it was very clear on the high relevance of
open source technologies for public authorities. Accordingly, open
source should be able to compete on equal footing with proprietary
offerings.
From my experience, EIF v1.0 has
had a number of very positive effects – not only for interoperability,
but for European economy in general:
2007-2012
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