Muqova rasmi Fotolia

January 2015

The German Ministry of the Interior presented ‘The General Government’s National Action Plan to implement the G8 Open Data Charter’ that has been adopted at the G8 Summit of June 2013 in Ireland. As a consequence, the German government has committed itself to facilitation of the publication of government data, publishing of governmental datasets when possible, GovData as a central open data portal for federal, state and local government, and conduction of regular dialogue with civil society, business, the media and the research community. The ambition is to have the G8 Open Data Charter implemented by the end of 2015.

Furthermore, in January 2015, Munich became the second public administration to join the advisory board at a non-profit organisation promoting the development of LibreOffice - the Document Foundation. The advisory board serves to those organisation that contribute significantly to the development of LibreOffice – for example by submissions of codes or financial help. LibreOffice is used on approximately 16 000 PC workstations in Munich.