Berlin Declaration on Open Source

Ministers responsible for digital transformation in public administration in all EU Member States highlighted the link between open source interoperability solutions for the public sector and digital Berlin Declaration, which was signed on 8 December 2020.

The signatories undertook to:

• Promoting fundamental rights and democratic values ​​in the digital public sphere.
• Enhancing social participation and inclusion
• Promoting digital empowerment and digital literacy
• Enhancing trust through security in the digital realm.
• Strengthening Europe 's digital independence and interoperability
• Creation of human-based artificial intelligence systems for use in the public sector.
• Promoting resilience and sustainability.

In this proclamation, after Tallinn Declaration on e-Government 2017, Member States renew and commit to digital public services.

The Declaration also emphasizes the urgent need to define the needs of citizens at the heart of public policies and services. The signatories state:

"We reaffirm our common political commitment to the stated priorities of ensuring high quality, central and user cross-border digital public services for citizens and businesses to develop a future European single market."

According to this, Open Source Software is one of the intermediaries for the development and development of strategic digital tools and capabilities in the public sector and to ensure interoperability.

In addition, the importance of open source, digital governance and interoperability is placed in the strategic perspective of digital independence. The Declaration states that open source software, together with common standards and modular architectures, are "facilitators for the development and development of strategic digital tools and capabilities". All underlying digital components, whether hardware, software or services, not only must meet European requirements, but as they develop, the signatories aim to create a wide selection of high-performance digital solutions to ensure free choice and change IT modules when needed.

The Declaration links interoperability, open source solutions and sovereignty, which is an important development in open source discussions in the public sector. He points out that this conversation goes on to look at how the digitization of the European public sector is becoming strategically important.

The commitments in the Berlin Declaration, from the perspective of interoperability, open source and digital dominance, show the opportunities that come with access to source code, whether it is digital skills, social inclusion, transparency, resilience or digital domination.

Read the whole proclamation here

Article Source:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

https://opengov.ellak.gr