In order to allow Europe to create one single European electronic identification and authentication area, STORK is encouraging the use of eIDs in Europe for both professional as private use. To encourage the European federation of identity management, STORK 2.0 will provide additional attributes to citizens to enable them to identify themselves in their professional field of activity.
On Thursday 9 February 2012, the ADMS Working Group composed of representatives of EU Member States and external experts will reconvene in a Virtual Meeting to discuss the public comments received in the public review period from 6 January through 6 February 2012 and decide on resolutions for all outstanding issues.
The Barcelona Provincial Council in Spain is one of the most recent to complete a migration of its web site to Liferay, an open source content management system, the council announced in a statement last week. The same platform is used by other public administrations in the region, including the council for the city of Terrassa, Barcelona's Chamber of Commerce and the Barcelona Turistic Bus, a public institute.
The European Commission's open source software written for its Citizens' Initiative, OCS (OnLine Collection Software) will make it easier for citizens to bring legislative proposals to the Commission, EC officials said at a conference in Brussels last Thursday.
German member of parliament and former federal minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries is calling for nominations by institutions and companies for the annual Document Freedom Day Awards. The prize is awarded for making an outstanding contribution to the proliferation of open standards.
Last year, the award was given the German city of Munich, for showing what a large city can achieve with free software. Another award winner was the online news portal Tagesschau, for making all its video entries available in the open format Ogg Theora.
