Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

To counter IT lock-in

18/10/2018

The Swedish government’s national procurement services department (Avropa) is referring to the EU’s 2017 Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment (also known as the “Tallinn Declaration”) to motivate…

Information exchange

17/10/2018

Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA) is looking for software service providers to upgrade its central tax information exchange system. The NTCA currently uses a mix of proprietary…

Code for standards

15/10/2018

European public services should be encouraged to use open source implementations of technical specifications, an EC-commissioned study concludes. The Commission should support this with guidelines and…

Hardware is software

11/10/2018

It's still early in terms of silicon implementations, tooling and operating system support, but the open RISC-V processor specification is making inroads in the processor world. As RISC-V Marketing…

ODF version 1.3 pending

09/10/2018

The Document Foundation, the organisation supporting the development of LibreOffice, is calling for supporters to promote the use of Open Document Format (ODF). Standardisation organisation OASIS…

Developers aim at reuse

05/10/2018

CareQueue, an open source project that presents public data on preschools, won last week’s Open Data Hackathon 2018 in Riga (Latvia). The software plots preschools on a map, showing space availability…

Open Source Lisbon 2018

04/10/2018

The use of open source at Portugal’s Institute for Justice Financial Management and Infrastructures (IGFEJ), funded by the Ministry of Finance, has been praised by ESOP, the country’s trade group for…

Completely open source

04/10/2018

Italy’s Team Digitale, the government digital transformation team, is about to start testing a smartphone app for its IO service, which will provide citizens with easy access to all kinds of…

Avoid blackmail

01/10/2018

LoRa , a low-power, long-range radio technology for networks on a municipal scale, provides a low-cost infrastructure on which municipalities can build a plethora of Internet-of-Things ( IoT )…

Bedside observations

25/09/2018

The development of Open-eObs, a bedside observation software solution to improve hospital care, confirms the value of open source software for the UK’s South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.…

Open source, open data

20/09/2018

The city of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital and with over half a million inhabitants the country’s largest city, is increasingly using open source software. The most recent example is WordPress: in July…