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Asia

Bhutan

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

in use?

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

India/Chennai: National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software

Creation of BOSS, an Indian version of Linux

in use?

http://nrcfoss.org.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=108 http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2007/01/msg00065.html

India/Kerela

Migration of all high-school PCs to Debian.

in use?

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

Philippines

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

in use?

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

Europe

Austria: City of Vienna

Deployment of an administration desktop based on Debian.

in use?

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)

in preparation?

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

Germany: Federal Antitrust Agency/Bundeskartellamt

entire back-office on Debian

obsolete?

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/1980/470

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.

in use

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

Germany: Federal Foreign Office

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

Migrating back to Windows XP

http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/portal/article_show?article=osjb2007-03-06-werner.pdf (German), Cancellation, doubtful reasons given for going back, Holger says this article in German is more informative.

Spain: Region of Extremadura

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

in use

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

Oceania

New Zealand: electoral agencies

Use of Debian for electoral enrolment

in use

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/072965C09248DA04CC257268000C6C7F

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