[ Thanks to Marco for this link.
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“The European Union program for Interoperable Delivery of
eGovernment Services to Administrations, Businesses and Citizens
(IDABC) promotes the correct use of information and communication
technologies (ICT) for cross-border services in Europe. Several
IDABC activities have a sensible, although indirect, impact on the
wider adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) in the
European Union; in fact, promotion of open source software and
applications has been a long-term IDABC goal since 1999…”