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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…

IGFEJ; ESOP; Simplex+; UniLEO;
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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…

Italy’s Team Digitale; IO; E-Government
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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 )…

LoRa; LoRaWAN; Olimex; Plovdiv Conference; The Things Network (TTN);
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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; LeMagIT.fr;
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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

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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.…

Open-eObs; UK’s South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; GitHub; Apperta; NHS’ Code4Health project; OpusVL;
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Ciutat Oberta Biennal de pensament (Open City, Biennial of Thought')

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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…

The city of Vilnius; EU funds; Linux; MySQL; Redmine; LibreOffice; GitHub; Nginx; hackathons; Atviras Vilnius; Code 4 Vilnius;
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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…

Bulgaria’s state eGovernment; SEGA; Git; GitHub; Apache Solr; Elastic Search; this includes open source search engines Apache Solr or Elastic Search; Swagger.
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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,…

Consul; citizen participation platform; MindTrek; ConsulCon18;
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