Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Volunteers tailor Ubuntu Linu…

09/05/2017

A group of British IT health care specialists have tailored the Ubuntu Linux distribution for use by the UK’s national health service (NHS) on its workstations. The alpha version of NHSbuntu was unvei…

EIB provides EUR 25 million f…

09/05/2017

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the non-profit lending institution of the European Union, will provide EUR 25 million in funding to the eponymous Finnish company behind the MariaDB open-source…

Majority of towns in Wallonia…

05/05/2017

The majority (75%) of municipalities in the Walloon region of Belgium are now using open source software and services. In the region 261 cities, towns, villages and other public administrations are…

Italy creates digital transfo…

05/05/2017

On 24 March, the government of Italy started ‘Developers Italia’ a digital government transformation team and software development community focusing on open source software development. Software…

Open source growth in Bourgog…

05/05/2017

Nearly half of all municipalities (960 out of 2000) in France’s former Bourgogne (Burgundy) region (now Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) are relying on open source-based services for several administrative…

Finland’s Oskari GIS platform…

05/05/2017

Oskari, the online geographic map-building tool that was originally developed by the National Land Survey of Finland, is joining the OSGeo foundation, hoping to become one of the world’s standard open…

Ukrainian public procurement…

04/05/2017

After sucessfully introducing the ProZorro portal for public procurement in Ukraine, the people behind it now hope to introduce the platform in at least one EU country. We are currently investigating…