Our LinkedIn group continues to grow rapidly and is close to its 4,000th LinkedIn member! Join the group as well, stay up to date on all important Interoperability news, expand your network and collaborate!
The Interoperable Europe Board, in cooperation with the Interoperable Europe Community, has adopted the Interoperable Europe Agenda for 2026. The Agenda is the EU’s main instrument for setting priorities that enhance the cross-border exchange of data between public administrations and accelerate their digital transformation.
Get to know the G2C winner of the Public Sector Tech Watch Best Cases Awards 2025! Diia.AI is Ukraine’s AI-powered assistant improving citizen access to public services through secure, conversational interactions.
Get to know the G2G winner of the Public Sector Tech Watch Best Cases Awards 2025! WienKI is Vienna’s AI platform supporting internal public administrations with a focus on efficiency and responsible innovation.
GovTech startups, scaleups and innovative SMEs can now submit their profile to be featured in the EU GovTech Startups dashboard within the EU GovTech Collection.
Discover how Z-Inspection, a methodology to assess AI systems’ trustworthiness, evaluated the legal, technological and ethical features of the Friesland Province’s Machine Learning tool for monitoring natural resources.
The SEMIC 2025 content library allows you to explore a range of materials from our two-day flagship event. Rewatch all panels and sessions, browse curated photos and access the presentation slides!
On 24 February, the Interoperable Europe Community, Interoperable Europe Monitoring and the Interoperable Europe Academy organise a joint webinar to support you in implementing the Interoperable Europe Act.
The SEMIC team will be present at the 4th Data Spaces Symposium in Madrid on 10 and 11 February. Visit their booth and discover during Europe's leading event on data spaces how SEMIC contributes to interoperability and trusted data spaces!
The Interoperable Europe Academy launched a free online course that explains how the DCAT-AP specification can be used to improve or build data spaces. Get started and gain practical and technical knowledge on DCAT-AP, as well as its benefits!
A new paper analyses open source adoption in public administrations through legal frameworks, governance mechanisms, reuse initiatives, and cross-border collaboration. It draws on 23 Open Source Software Country Intelligence Reports.
Thanks to the feedback given by the community, the OSOR Handbook has now been upgraded. This practical full cycle guide helps public administrations in Europe who seek to use, develop, or contribute to open source software.
Since the Interoperable Europe Act entered into force, steady progress towards more connected, efficient and citizen-centred digital public services across Europe took place. Read about it in the first annual report on interoperability in the Union.
The European Commission has funded a study that seeks to improve legislative drafting by developing and integrating in LEOS AI-based services that assist the drafters. For more details, read the study now!
Europe’s digital future should not be rented. It should be built, together, in the open, in Europe. The European Commission just published a Call for Evidence to inform the upcoming European Open Source Strategy (Q1 2026), focused on strengthening European open digital ecosystems, boosting competitiveness, and reinforcing cybersecurity.
Recent strategic decisions by public administrations highlight the importance of data access for successful digital transformation. OSOR reported on four examples which show that public administrations are recognising the importance of data availability. It is clear from these cases that successful data sharing and open source software are closely interlinked, even beyond Europe.
Drupal is a free, open source content management system (CMS) used to build and manage websites. It is written in PHP and allows users to create, organise, and publish digital content without requiring extensive programming knowledge. Drupal is particularly suited for complex, content-heavy websites and is widely used by governments, universities, and large organisations due to its flexibility, scalability, and strong security features. It supports a modular architecture, meaning functionality can be extended through thousands of community-contributed modules. Drupal is maintained by a global community of developers and has been in active development since 2001.
The French government is harnessing the power of Grist to improve the productivity of its public administration. Grist is a relational database disguised as a simple spreadsheet. It is a mix between a collaborative spreadsheet, a database and a no code app builder. As explained by Grégoire Cutzach, Technical Product Director Grist at OPI / LaSuite The Digital Services Incubator (DINUM), and Jaime Arredondo, Open Source Expert within DINUM’s Digital Commons team, in response to our questions, Grist contributes to modernise the digital tooling for the public agents, while making financial and time savings, by replacing tools that were very expensive to maintain. OSOR already featured this tool as solution of the month in October 2024.
On 14 January, the European Commission has announced the gradual release of its Once-Only Technical System (OOTS), a digital framework that ensures that citizens and businesses provide information to public authorities only once, with subsequent sharing among authorities minimising administrative burdens by simplifying cross-border administrative procedures. The source code is now available under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) at code.europa.eu. This release includes the OOTS Common Services and the EMREX Bridge components, marking significant progress in the Commission’s commitment to transparency and interoperability.
Mexico is investing in open source solutions to scale up the digitalisation of its government services. In August 2025, the Centro Nacional de Tecnología Pública (National Centre for Public Technology, CNTP) launched its National Public Technology Repository, a database of Mexican GovTech solutions. The database realises the CNTP’s aim to strengthen Mexico’s digital sovereignty and implement the Public Money, Public Code principle. Since its launch, 18 technological solutions have been made available to the country’s public sector.
