Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Montréal goes Open Source

Mike Gifford

24/05/2018

Really exciting to see this move from the City of Montreal to adopt open source policies.

OpenChain Case Study

Martin Callinan

23/04/2018

Learn how NHS England’s Code4Health and AB EHR leveraged OpenChain Standard to manage their open source software supply chain with the services of Source Code Control

Diadikasies training

Gijs Hillenius

28/02/2018

Of around 5,000 public procedures in Greece, 2,100 have now been fully documented by public service staff on the Diadikasies MediaWiki. An increasing number of public services are requesting training…

Coding in the summer

Gijs Hillenius

26/02/2018

Italy’s governmental Digital Transformation Team is looking for computer science students who want to work on open source software development projects for three months this summer. The government is…

Mapping the horizon

Gijs Hillenius

26/02/2018

Albania’s vibrant open source community is encouraging the administration of Tirana, the capital, to open up. Earlier this month, the city and members of Open Labs Hackerspace together announced the…

Not fully transparent

Gijs Hillenius

16/02/2018

Poland’s Ministry of Justice is refusing to make public the computer algorithms that are used to randomly assign judges to cases. The ePaństwo Foundation, an NGO promoting open government, in December…

Essential enabler

Gijs Hillenius

16/02/2018

The Dutch city of Amsterdam is relying on open source software to build and deploy solutions that combine geographic maps and other data. These solutions make life easier for the city’s maintenance…

Blockchain as a service

Gijs Hillenius

15/02/2018

Malta’s Ministry of Finance, Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the UK South East Regional Organised Crime Unit have implemented open source cloud systems to share data and services securely…

Security & sovereignty

Gijs Hillenius

15/02/2018

France’s Cour des comptes (Court of Auditors) supports the central government’s use of free software, recognising it as a driver of government modernisation and improved efficiency. Most importantly,…

Seamless services

Gijs Hillenius

14/02/2018

The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has published cross-governmental API data and standards to help public services share and reuse technology, and to make better use of data. “API standards…

Government big data

Gijs Hillenius

12/02/2018

Romania’s Ministry of Communications and Information Society is launching two “big data” projects to make public services more efficient, improve tax collection and prevent fraud. The ministry wants…