Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Removing barriers

17/11/2017

The UK government should encourage its healthcare organisations to use open standards, open programming interfaces and open source components, healthcare IT experts say, in a report published on 31…

Open Source Summit

16/11/2017

The European Commission’s Interoperability Unit (ISA²) is organising a round table discussion in Paris (France) on 6 December. This workshop, which is part of the Paris Open Source Summit, will…

The next economy

04/11/2017

The Municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have jointly launched a field lab for the development of blockchain-based applications. The BlockLab project is financed by these two…

Driving modernisation

02/11/2017

In Galicia (Spain) the number and size of ICT services providers specialising in free and open source software is growing, thanks in part to the regional government’s IT policy which promotes this…

Open for reuse

02/11/2017

When building or rebuilding ICT systems, public services should make more use of open source software solutions, the Ministers of the European Union Member States and EFTA countries agreed in Tallinn …

Considerable public interest

24/10/2017

This week a US federal judge unsealed the source code for a software application used by New York City's crime lab to help analyse DNA evidence from crime scenes. The Forensic Statistical Tool (FST)…

Autonomy

24/10/2017

France’s Senate should start a commission of inquiry into a proprietary licence contract signed by the Ministry of Defence, says senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam. This summer, the ministry’s latest four…

Signed sealed & delivered

20/10/2017

Users of a recent version of LibreOffice (5.4.0 and up) on Linux workstations can now use OpenPGP to sign their documents, thanks to the 'Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik' (BSI, the…

Digital Finance

18/10/2017

EIT Digital, the digital branch of the European innovation agency EIT, opens a new Satellite Co-Location Centre (CLC) at the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI…

Economic booster

18/10/2017

Governments should make the source code of their software solutions available as open source, says Gartner, a consultancy, in a report for the Dutch government published this week. Open sourcing of…

First two payments made

18/10/2017

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule Luzern, HSLU) in Switzerland is now accepting payments in Bitcoin. Customers of the institute — including students and employees — who want…