BZK richt Open Source Program Office op [BZK establishes OSPO] | AG Connect, 14 March 2023

Google translate: "Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for Kingdom Affairs and Digitization, announced the arrival of the OSPO today during the EU Open Source Policy Summit. The aim of the OSPO is that eventually all new software from the ministry will be developed open source. The OSPO must make agreements with the various departments of the Ministry of the Interior about conducting pilots or making existing applications open source. Knowledge must be gained with this in order to be able to make the switch to open source works. In time, Van Huffelen wants the entire government to switch to open source. RELATED ARTICLES Open source mandatory for government login tools3 House of Representatives adopts open source motion Government is looking at open source for citizen notification service The OSPO will become part of CIO BZK. It will collaborate with various policy and staff departments, including in the areas of procurement, disclosure of government information and the European Digital Identity wallet. This should eventually lead to open source becoming “the new normal” at the ministry. In 2020, the ministry introduced the 'Open, unless…' policy, which states that the source code of government software must be open source, unless there are good reasons to deviate from this...."