Greek Free Open Source Software Society - Open Technologies Alliance
Acronym: GFOSS
General Information
Identification Code: 940626430823-13
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Entity Form: Non Profit Organisation
Registration Category: Think tanks and research institutions
Registration Date: 3/15/2018
Last Update: 4/8/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
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.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Banking and financial services
- Climate action
- Communication
- Culture
- Culture and media
- Digital economy and society
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Education and training
- Environment
- Institutional affairs
- International co-operation and development
- Justice and fundamental rights
- Public health
- Research and innovation
- Youth
Levels of Interest:
- sub-national
- national
- global
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: 9, Iroon Polytechneiou str.
Post Code: GR15780
City: Athens
Country: GREECE
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EU Office
Address: 9, Iroon Polytechneiou str.
Post Code: GR15780
City: Athens
Country: GREECE
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.25
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://gfoss.eu/gfoss-member-organizations/
Organisation Members: 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/).