Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

More revenue, new jobs

06/12/2018

In the past year, ICT companies in the Basque Country in Spain that specialise in free and open source software report a revenue growth of 8 percent – much higher than the autonomous region’s average…

All science should be open

06/12/2018

Openness has become an important pillar of science practice. Open access makes research output (i.e. scientific publications) publicly available. In an EU context, open access also includes open…

Speakers and panelists @POSS18

04/12/2018

​​​​​​The European Commission's Open Source Observatory (OSOR) will hold a two-hour session at the Paris Open Source Summit dedicated to security and national policies on the use of open source…

Digital transformation

30/11/2018

Germany intends to modernise teaching, saying that a digital transformation of the education sector is needed to prepare the country’s future generations for a digital society. The Ministry of…

Perhaps France can help

30/11/2018

The UK’s tax authority (HMRC) should include open source options in its list of software suppliers for sending VAT (sales tax) returns and income tax updates, says Flax & Teal, a Belfast-based…

Recording observations

29/11/2018

Ethereum-based software will become publicly available early next year National Public Monitoring ( NOM ), a Russian independent association of public observers, has been testing a monitoring tool for…

‘US office clouds unsafe'

26/11/2018

Public services in Sweden should not use non-Swedish cloud services to handle confidential information, government lawyers say. Sweden’s national procurement services agree, and are calling on the…

"Data is the fuel of growth"

23/11/2018

Open-source software plays an important role in artificial intelligence ( AI ). This includes specific software libraries, editors and development environments, and machine learning platforms. So say…

Boost local ICT sector

22/11/2018

To offer modern government services, the city of Tirana (Albania) is turning to open source software. Soon, Tirana will complete the implementation of the LibreOffice suite of office productivity…

Autonomous IT sector

22/11/2018

The government of Turkey is renewing its drive to get public services to switch to open source software solutions. This summer, the government urged the public sector to contribute more to the…

This should be an FAQ

22/11/2018

The UK Government Digital Service (GDS) is sharing its recommendations for how public services can overcome barriers to developing software as open source. In a blog post, GDS summarises its answers…