The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source software at the centre of its efforts to promote interoperable e-government services with a new working paper introduced this month. The Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, argues in the report that open standards, and to an extent open source, are crucial to making new e-government services work with each other and with enterprise systems. The paper, which will be used as a reference point for policy and decision-makers around Europe, is the latest document pushing forward the far-reaching eEurope initiative on e-government services.
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