SFP#51: Policy and EU: The challenges for public code in public administration!

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by Free and Open Source Projects in public institutions with experts from NIIS and FSFE.

In this monthly Software Freedom Podcast episode we are talking with the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) and their X-Road, a Free Software well-used in public institutions. Together with Johannes Näder from the FSFE, and Petteri Kivimäki (NIIS) we discussed the current challenges that Free and Open Source Projects meet in public institutions. Join the FSFE community and support the podcast: https://my.fsfe.org/support?referrer=podcast

People in this episode

Host: Free Software Foundation Europe

Guests: Johannes Näder, Petteri Kivimäki

Topics covered

• public code
• public administration
• Free Software
• Open Source Projects
• interoperability
• challenges

Keywords

• public code
• Free Software
• Open Source
• public administration
• interoperability
• challenges
• X-Road

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions, FSFE, X-Road

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