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Technological freedom

31/01/2018

Portugal has revised its National Digital Interoperability Regulation (RNID) “to align with European guidelines”, reports the country’s Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a…

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New Newsletter Issue Released

26/01/2018

Mobile Age Newsletter Issue No.6 is now available and readers can get informed on the co-creation workshops that Mobile Age partners realised in the field sites of the project. Senior citizens in…

ageing society, digital divide, social inclusion, age-friendly environments, older persons, independent living, mobility, safety, accessibility, health information, open data, open government, public services, apps, e-government, transparency,
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Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe

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Market

30/12/2017

A strong cultural and historical background favours open source. France leads the European open source market, with penetration in IT services and software higher than that of other countries, says…

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Datos gob es

29/12/2017

In November, the Spanish government published as open source the code for its open data platform data.gob.es. The portal combines the Drupal content management system with CKAN open data repository…

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Using GitHub for now

29/12/2017

Bulgaria’s State e-Government Agency (SEGA) has started to build its national open source software repository in which it intends to share all software written for and by public services. In the…

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Free and Open Source Developers Meeting 2018

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Public Money, Public Code

21/12/2017

The City of Barcelona is migrating its computer systems away from the Windows platform, so reports the Spanish newspaper El País . The City's strategy is first to replace all user applications with…

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Collaborating on collaboration

21/12/2017

Software developers working for the governments of Canada and the Netherlands are working to join their government’ collaboration portals, GCconnex/GCcollab and Pleio respectively. Both platforms are…

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‘Open source makes you better’

18/12/2017

The city of Paris advocates the use of free and open source software by public services. This does not necessarily lower costs, the French authorities say, but it allows the capital’s public services…

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Meaningful data pattern

18/12/2017

Forty websites managed by Italian public services, from schools and towns to key eGovernment services, are testing the use of Piwik, an open source software solution for analysing patterns in website…

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Force disturbed

14/12/2017

The city of Munich is preparing to switch 18,500 workstations running Linux to proprietary operating systems over the next 2 to 4 years, in an renewed attempt to centralise the city’s 22 IT…

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