Iceland looks to move its public sector to open source software within one year as it begins to edge towards financial recovery.

Iceland will join other governments such as France and US who are making a move to open source software, with the aim to save resources with lower costs while avoiding restrictive licensing terms.

Tryggvi Bjorgvinsson, project leader, reported: "The goal of the project is not to migrate public institutions to free and open source software in one single year but to lay a solid foundation for such a migration which institutions can base their migration plans on."