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NGOGFOSS

Greek Free Open Source Software Society - Open Technologies Alliance

Athens, GREECENon Profit OrganisationReg: 940626430823-13Since 15/03/2018

Budget

€219,823,000

EP Access

0

accredited persons

Staff

4

0.4 FTE

EU Grants

€68,335,699

Mission & Goals

GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 37 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. Our main goal is to promote Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece. We are platform for Open Standards, Free Software, Open Content, Open Data & Open Hardware in Greece. The major Greek Universities and Research Centers participate in GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance, while leading members of the Greek community of developers play a key role in the implementation of our policies.

EU Legislative Interests

Digital Single Market Smart Cities & Communities ISA² programme Open Source Open Standards Open Procurement Intellectual Property Open Internet

Communication Activities

Participation in EU funded projects, such as H2020 projects and MED projects. Participation in events organised by EU such as ICT events. Participation in public consultations related to the policies described above.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

GFOSS is affiliated with Creative Commons, is a founding member of COMMUNIA and FAB LAB ATHENS, member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Network, Node of the Open Data Institute(http://opendatainstitute.org/), partner of the Open Forum Europe (http://www.openforumeurope.org), member of the Open Budget Initiative (http://internationalbudget.org/what-we-do/major-ibp-initiatives/open-budget-initiative/), member of the Open Policy Network(https://openpolicynetwork.org/), Associate Organisation of FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe), Associate Member of Eclipse Foundation (https://eclipse.org/), Associate Organization of OW2 Consortium (https://www.ow2.org/) and local hub of MyData (https://mydata.org/hubs/).

Organisation Members

https://gfoss.eu/gfoss-member-organizations/

Commissioner Meetings

No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.