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The public sector is expected to offer digital online services to citizens in a digitally sovereign and secure way. Nextcloud offers the first open source platform to address the unique challenges governments at all levels face.
Staff shortages & limited resources
Solution: Nextcloud integrates a broad range of collaboration abilities including Nextcloud Flow, an easy-to-use automation tool, designed to help organizations streamline tasks and improve productivity.
Data security & compliance
Solution: Nextcloud offers full control over infrastructure and data, preventing vendor lock-in. With privacy and data sovereignty at its core, Nextcloud Flow is ideal for sectors requiring high levels of security, such as healthcare and public administration.
Process efficiency
Solution: Nextcloud is optimized for sharing processes and knowledge across departments. With Flow it’s easy to automate routine and repetitive tasks, allowing teams to focus on high-value work.
Dirk Schrödter
Head of the State Chancellery and Digitization Minister of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
Public administration in Germany is facing the huge challenge of offering citizens administrative services online. In the future, this will be facilitated by an open source automation tool for specialist procedures from an established provider such as Nextcloud. We look forward to contributing to the development of this groundbreaking tool and ensuring that its capabilities match the needs of the administration.
Markus Richter
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology
The Online Access Act obliges the public sector to provide all administrative services digitally in future. Open source software should be given priority here. We are therefore delighted that the 'Open Collaboration Services' are the first 100% open source solution with which specialist procedures can be implemented quickly and easily. Open source enables the simple sharing of specialist procedures on Open CoDE, which saves costs and strengthens digital sovereignty.
Leonhard Kugler
Head of Open Source Platform at ZenDiS
Whether it’s the consultation process for the OZG framework architecture or specialist applications based on no-code/low-code principles: the latest use cases clearly demonstrate that Open CoDE is increasingly becoming the central platform for the sovereign digitalization of public administration in Germany. We are very pleased about this.
Key benefits
Nextcloud for public adminstration
Nextcloud’s collaboration solutions are used by tens of thousands of public administrations, including many EU institutions as well as federal, state and local administrations. It supports digitalization of the public sector in countries like France, the Netherlands, Serbia, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and the USA.
Data security & privacy
Maintain full control over your data with GDPR compliance and country-specific demands.
Efficient collaboration
Secure, remote collaboration on documents, projects, and video meetings.
Scalable solution
Nextcloud adapts to the needs of any governmental unit, big or small.
Automate processes with Nextcloud Flow
Streamline administrative workflows and create online services without programming skills within a user friendly interface.
„One for All“-Principle
Once created, online services can be shared between agencies, municipalities, or public utilities via open repositories like github or country-specific platforms like Open CoDE in Germany or the Mission logiciels libres in France.
Digital sovereignty
As a pure software vendor, Nextcloud does not force customers to host in its data centers but works with a variety of leading partners to provide SaaS or on premise solutions.
The solution for the Public Sector
Our Open Source Platform for the digitalization
of processes and citizen facing services
Digitalisation of the Public Sector
Why Open Source is the Solution
While the digital transformation of the public sector presents considerable challenges, open-source technology offers a robust and flexible path forward. By leveraging open-source cloud solutions, governments can address the unique pressures they face, from limited resources to the need for high security, all while paving the way for a more efficient, transparent, and responsive public sector.
Given these challenges, open-source technology emerges as a compelling solution for the public sector’s digital transformation.
Open-source software offers unparalleled flexibility
The collaborative nature of open-source development means that public administrations can benefit from each others innovations and improvements.
Data security and sovereignty
In terms of data security and sovereignty, open-source provides a level of transparency that is hard to achieve with closed-source software. It can be scrutinized by security experts, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and ensuring that the software adheres to the highest security standards.
Control over data
Open-source solutions give governments complete control over their data, which is vital for maintaining compliance with national regulations and protecting citizen privacy.
Scalability and interoperability
The scalability and interoperability of open-source systems make them ideal for public administrations that need to integrate various legacy systems or scale their services rapidly. As demands on public services continue to grow, the ability to scale efficiently and without exorbitant costs becomes increasingly important.
Reduce redundancy
The inherent focus and architecture for sharing of most open source solutions is a powerful force to reduce redundancy and improve the re-use of solutions across the public sector. This standardizes and speeds up deployment and offers a large opportunity to significantly reduce costs.
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