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Due to a lack of contributions

27/09/2018

According to the French IT news site LeMagIT.fr , The Document Foundation, an open source institution in charge of the governance of the LibreOffice suite, has decided to withdraw the French…

mimo, libreoffice, TDF
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Short case study: The Value of Open Source – an NHS Perspective

General case study

Abstract: The Open Source electronic observation system known as Open-eObs allows clinicians to record observations of in- patients at their bedsides using hand-held devices. The system then…

open source software, open source, FOSS
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An Open Digital Approach for the NHS Part one – Policies, Principles & Practices

Document

Abstract: This report presents published policies and intent supportive of an open approach published by the UK Government, Department of Health, NHS Digital and Apperta as well as in the EU, Asia and…

ehealth, opensource, open data
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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.…

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Ciutat Oberta Biennal de pensament (Open City, Biennial of Thought')

event

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…

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To go online next year

17/09/2018

In November, Bulgaria’s state eGovernment agency SEGA (Държавната агенция „Електронно управление“ ДАЕУ) will award a contract for building the country’s open source code repository. SEGA began…

news

Open for discussion

14/09/2018

Consul, the citizen participation platform shared as open source by the city of Madrid (Spain), is being implemented in 18 countries across the world. In Spain, Consul is used by over 40 villages,…

news

Vulnerability scans

13/09/2018

Germany’s federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has been funding a 26-month project to help small and medium-sized companies avoid IT security issues when using open source content…

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Git-pull [<options>]

11/09/2018

OpenEuropa’s software developers working on the European Commission’s Drupal-based software projects also contribute to related open source projects. When they come across a bug in a component needed…

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Source should be public

11/09/2018

The Digital Transformation Team of the Italian government is calling on buyers and sellers of public sector ICT solutions to apply 16 technological principles, including the use of open ICT standards…

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Nordic interoperability

10/09/2018

The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a public service started in August 2017 by Estonia and Finland, is making available its first two extensions for X-Road, an open source…

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