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Asia

Bhutan

Development of ?DzongkhaLinux, a localised Debian-based distribution.

http://www.dit.gov.bt/admin/index.php/Main_Page http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060719.html

India/Kerela

Migration of all high-school PCs to Debian.

http://www.edugrid.ac.in/webfolder/g/for_downloads.htm

Philippines

Development of Bayanihan Linux, a Philippines government sponsored Linux project, based on Debian.

http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph/

Europe

Austria: City of Vienna

Deployment of an administration desktop based on Debian.

http://www.wien.gv.at/ma14/wienux.html (German)

Germany: City of Munich

The main target of the ?LiMux project is to complete the City Council's order to run open source software on the administration's desktops in the future. (from the web page)

http://www.muenchen.de/limux (German with link to English page)

Germany: Federal Office for Security in Information Technology/Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (BSI)

Production of a security live CD based on Knoppix and an administration desktop based on Sarge.

http://www.bsi.de/produkte/index.htm (German)

Germany: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Use of Debian for almost everything, both clients and servers.

http://www.twerner42.de/chemnitz.pdf (German)

Spain: Region of Extremadura

Deployment of Debian-based ?LinEx in school and community centres.

http://www.linex.org/ (Spanish) http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060803.html

More governmental Debian GNU/Linux users are listed here: http://www.debian.org/users/#gov