40% Italian public administrations uses open source

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Just over 40 per cent of Italy’s public administrations are using open source software solutions, the country’s National Statistical Institute, Istat, reports. According to its ‘Public institutions’ 2011 Census’ report, published on 31 March, this is especially the case among state, regional and provincial administrations.

Istat in March presented some of the results it took from its 2011 surveyof public administrations, focussing on their ICT use.

All of Italy’s twenty regional public administrations, 69.7 per cent of all state administration and constitutional organisations and 93.6 per cent of its 110 provincial administrations implement open source solutions.

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