- Achieving European Interoperability Report Mar 28, 2011
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This report on “Achieving European Interoperability” is based on an Openforum Acadamy INSIGHTS Round Table discussion held on February 4, 2011, in Brussels. The Round Table had broad attendance from a wide spectrum of organisations including the European Commission, Member States governments, industry – both large and small, open source companies and organisations, and academia.
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ICT Standards play a vital role in supporting public policies and in public procurement, Yet in Europe governments rarely get involved in the business of mandating standards. Instead they usually just set broad technology requirements and leave it up to market to create standards.
Are they right to keep out? Or would greater public sector involvement in the referencing of standards, as witnessed in the U.S. for example, result in improved interoperability between technologies and more competition between competitors?
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