Iceland public admin moving toward open source

[Ryan McGreal, Raise the Hammer]

All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and
open source software. The country's government recently launched a one
year migration project for all of its public institutions. "The goal of
the project is not to migrate public institutions to free and open source
software in one single year but to lay a solid foundation for such a
migration which institutions can base their migration plans on", reports
Tryggvi Bj�rgvinsson, the project leader.

Examples include the three biggest public institutions in Iceland, all of
the ministries, the city of Reykjavik and the National Hospital. "These
are setting a good migration example", says Bj�rgvinsson.

The project will put up a common infrastructure for migrations, he
explains. Here the public administrations will document and estimate the
maturity of free and open source alternatives to proprietary software.
"This will foster collaboration between public institutions, IT service
providers and the free and open source community in Iceland."

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