On 1 January 2014 a new version was launched of the national procurement service Doffin, where public institutions in Norway publish information about their calls for tender. The goal is to simplify the system and provide a better service for its users.

On 18 December 2012 the European Commission adopted seven new priorities for the digital economy and society 2013-2014, following a comprehensive policy review, placing new emphasis on the most transformative elements of the 2010 Digital Agenda for Europe.

On 26 July 2012, the Governor of the Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED), Dr. Elias Kikilias presented the eGovernment and financial management information systems of OAED to the Chairmen of the Social Partners, as well as its transition into a new era of automated services.

Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making their data publicly available will increase their use of free and open source since open data and open source face comparable threats like initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on organizations, according to a number of experts in open data.

A workshop held by a Group of Swedish Academics in the city of Skövde on Tuesday 14 June 2012 marked the beginning of a three-year research project to build a reference model for open standards and open source,  aiming to improve understanding of open standards and their implementations in open source.

An Internet top-level domain name server (DNS) implementation, developed for Europe's .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD) was made available on 28 June 2012 as open source by Eurid, during a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) taking place in Prague, Czech Republic.

Germany's software applications for procurement will gradually be made available as open source.

The European Commission's central information service, Europe Direct, is mainly relying on open source tools. Over the past years, the firm running the call centre on behalf of the EC, replaced many proprietary software applications with open source alternatives.

The value and quality of open source solutions are the main reasons for the Dutch municipalities to switch to this type of software, says Willem van Uijthoven, IT manager for the municipality of Rheden in the eastern Netherlands.

The European Commission is setting an example by making its software for electronic procurement available as open source, said Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, at the 1st Annual Conference on eProcurement