Biometric Update reports that on September 18 the European Commission told Europe’s eDelivery community to pay attention to the new EU Open Source Strategy, holding up eDelivery as infrastructure designed around open specifications, interoperability, and multiple implementations, a model it now wants to extend across software, cloud, and AI. The article notes eDelivery is already used by Denmark for healthcare messaging and bookkeeping, Norway for public-sector interaction, and Slovenia’s Supreme Court for judicial documents through its own open-source Laurentius software, with the Commission’s dashboard tracking 98 initiatives. The Commission has committed €2 million a year for 2026 and 2027 to specifications, software maintenance, conformance testing, PKI and SML services, and deployment support, tying the money to technological sovereignty, and folded the approach into a June 3 European Technological Sovereignty Package alongside Chips Act 2.0, the Cloud and AI Development Act, and a roadmap for digitalisation and AI in energy.
EU points to eDelivery as model for open-source sovereignty push
Biometric Update reports that on September 18 the European Commission told Europe's eDelivery community to pay attention to the new EU Open Source Strategy, holding up eDelivery as infrastructure designed around open specifications, interoperability, and multiple implementations, a model it now wants to extend across software, cloud, and AI. The article notes eDelivery is already used by Denmark for healthcare messaging and bookkeeping, Norway for public-sector interaction, and Slovenia's Supreme Court for judicial documents through its own open-source Laurentius software, with the Commission's dashboard tracking 98 initiatives. The Commission has committed €2 million a year for 2026 and 2027 to specifications, software maintenance, conformance testing, PKI and SML services, and deployment support, tying the money to technological sovereignty, and folded the approach into a June 3 European Technological Sovereignty Package alongside Chips Act 2.0, the Cloud and AI Development Act, and a roadmap for digitalisation and AI in energy.
Source: Biometricupdate