Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Digitally inclusive

31/08/2018

The Dutch government plans to remove legal roadblocks to allow public services to publish the source code of their ICT solutions. A pending proposal from the government to the parliament will change…

Manage risks and assets

31/08/2018

Croatia’s Customs Administration wants to switch some of its core business systems to open source. The organisation is looking for specialists who can help build a new Linux-based server…

Service sparks sharing

29/08/2018

Municipalities in Finland should now find it easier to discover reusable, open source ICT solutions. A list of available solutions is available on the Avoinkoodi (“Open Code”) portal, managed by COSS,…

MySQL PostgreSQL Linux

28/08/2018

Poznań county in Poland is looking for short-term help with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux and other IT solutions. Last week, the district administration published a request for tender, asking for…

Manage childcare funds

25/08/2018

The capital of Switzerland, Bern, has published its first open source solution. The software, Ki-Tax, is used by the city to manage external childcare subsidies. In addition, the city is introducing…

Cheaper and more secure

23/08/2018

Six months ago, Denmark’s Agency for Governmental IT Services (Statens It) began making a private cloud computing environment available to all state agencies. The agency is using OpenStack, a well…