The municipality of Tirana in Albania goes free open source by using Nextcloud


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 after 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 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 client(s) 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 avoiding 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.

Nextcloud is an open source file sync & share platform which was started by ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek and members of the 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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