The European Commission has on 30 August published our report, analysing the collaboration models between Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) and Cloud Open Source software development initiatives. It proposes practical ways to further strengthen their interaction and to develop a roadmap of actions to improve the integration of open source communities in the standard setting ... [Continue Reading]
New documents on cybersecurity and standards available
OpenForum Europe has made available a position paper on the draft Cybersecurity Act and a backgrounder on cybersecurity standards in Europe. Both can be found in the Library. ... [Continue Reading]
ICT Standardisation in a Digital World
The standardisation world is at a crossroads; standards are: critical for digitisation of private and public sectors alike; increasingly high on the political agendas of both the European Commission and Member States, as instruments for industrial and innovation policy; and key assets of industry, for open infrastructures and technologies. Considering the increased relevance of openness, which is ... [Continue Reading]
New European Commission Communication: European Standards for the 21st Century
Jochen Friedrich is Chair of the OFE Standardisation Task Force and OFA Fellow. This post was originally published on his blog. The European Commission published today [1 June] its Communication on “EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ” - COM(2016) 358. It is publicly available on the Commission website. And it comes with a Staff Working paper - SWD(2016) 186 final. As indicated by the ... [Continue Reading]
Some thoughts about the Commission’s eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020
Last month, on April 19, the European Commission published, as part of a package of initiatives related to the realisation of the Digital Single Market (DSM)1, a new eGoverment Action Plan2, covering the period 2016 to 2020. Overall, I believe the document contains a realistic but ambitious vision and sets the right priorities but nevertheless, a few remarks are to be made.The Action Plan has the ... [Continue Reading]
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