Federal
Chancellery
and the
Federal Ministry of Finance.
By June 2005, they were placed under
the open source license for Apache Software Foundation in version 2.0. The distributions of
the modules and the associated source code are thus freely available to all users.
Sample Applications
Several sample applications, like testing the Citizen Card, are open to public and private
users. Some of these include: testing the citizen card, generate a toolkit for the generation
of user certificates, provision of a citizen capsule (an emulation of a citizen card
environment for test purposes and for the development of citizen card applications
available) and a test mail message application.
The Federal eGovernment Strategy is based on a number of
principles
, like its proximity to
citizens, trust and security, transparency, accessibility, usability, data security,
sustainability and interoperability.
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