Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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DE: Government reinforces open source resource centre
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| Germany's federal Agency for Information Technology (BIT) is increasing its
| open source support to public administrations, according to representative
| attending the Linuxtag conference in Berlin last week.
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| BIT's now employs a team of consultants and technicians specialised in open
| source, that will offer assistance to public administrations. The renewal of
| the competence centre is one of the measures taken by the federal government
| to prop up the country's economy.
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| During the conference BIT's colleagues from the federal Office for IT
| security (BSI), part of the ministry of the Interior, presented the most
| recent version of Kolab, an open source collaboration suite for Unix
| platforms.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/de-government-reinforces-open-source-resource-centre
Best I can make out, BIT is supposed to have some similarities to NSA,
and isn't supposed to be much concerned generally with what is called IT
in the US. Maybe one of COLA's Germans can say more.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,554853,00.html
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Among the various suborganizations in this complex is the Federal Agency for Information Technology (BIT). This is where a communications monitoring system capable of rivaling those in other countries is to be put into operation by the middle of next year.
This would upgrade the Cologne-based federal authority to the status of what officials mockingly refer to a "mini-NSA." According to a memo from his ministry, Wolfgang Schäuble's senior officials are looking to establish a specialized computer center with a view to "harmonizing the fragmented signals intelligence landscape among the country's law enforcement and intelligence agencies."
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