The Municipality of Tirana migrates to Nextcloud
Last Updated: May 11, 2018 by Silva Arapi
The municipality of Tirana, the biggest municipality in the country serving over 800,000 citizens, decided to make an Important move onto open source technologies, by implementing yet another open source software in its infrastructure and offering a major improvement with the deployment of a private cloud service : https://cloud.tirana.al/
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On 11th of June the Municipality of Tirana migrated from ownCloud to Nextcloud after two months of usage. This replacement was proposed by the IT staff taking into consideration the priorities that the latter has in terms of security and performance, and the fact that Nextcloud is offering an enterprise product which is 100% open source as well as their community support that might be a valuable asset in the future.
The director of the IT department of the municipality, Mr. Ermir Puka declared that he and his team where very optimistic for the private cloud service project since they first thought of offering such a solution and that they see Nextcloud as the best choice among similar products they considered, to address the needs of more than 600 employees of the municipality for secure file sharing and different applications like the Collabora Online tools, the Calendar, the Chat app, the mobile clients and more apps of the Nextcloud ecosystem.
The migration to Nextcloud is an important event since this is the first municipality in South Eastern Europe which is putting serious efforts in using less proprietary software, as a way to cut off costs and protect the privacy of its data, employees and citizens and it has chosen also Nextcloud among other Open Source Software they are currently using, as a tool to accomplish this.
An important contributor in raising the public awareness on the importance of free open source culture in general and the public administration embracing it in particular, has been the local community of the Open Labs Hackerspace. Different events organized, like meetups, localization sprints, workshops and bigger ones like the Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) have provided opportunities for people to get in touch with this kind of technologies and solutions, and their advantages too.
The growth of the local community is a great news for everybody, as it is expected to positively influence the municipality IT department as well as other local government and private organizations in the upcoming months, providing skills and knowledge as well as a potential opportunity to hire from.
About Nextcloud: Nextcloud is an open source file sync & share platform which was started by ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek and the core team. Nextcloud aims to empower users to take back control over their data and communication as an alternative to Dropbox or Google apps, which can be installed on a personal server– allowing users to sync & share files, calendars, contacts and more!
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Bravo Bashkia Tiranë and Open Labs, and nice work @silva.arapi on the article! Very exciting to hear about more open source software working its way into the public sector and to hear about the role of Open Labs with this. A nice way to wrap up the fifth anniversary too.
Very very interesting achievement, congrats openlabs on this milestone. Hopefully many more to come
You guys are definitely one of the most impressive community I know !
What a GREAT achievement !!! \o/