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LocalGov Drupal: a successful story of open cooperation between and within UK Councils
In the span of a year, the council of Brighton and Hove has fully open sourced its publishing platform. By sharing knowledge and skills, Croydon (and others) could do the same - but in one-third of…
NEWSCreated: 08/04/2021
Royal Navy launched an open source toolkit for application development
The United Kingdom's naval warfare force, the Royal Navy, launched the NELSON programme as part of its digital transformation strategy. Moving towards open source, the Royal Navy now provides the open…
NEWSCreated: 25/11/2019
Zero cost for software licences breaks UK procurement spreadsheets
Procurement officers working for public services in the UK need to adapt their acquisition models, says OpenUK, an open source industry association. Current contract cost models are a serious barrier…
NEWSCreated: 20/11/2019European Space Agency (ESA) to fund first blockchain based open source satellite network
Founded in 2017, SpaceChain is a community-based space platform that combines space and blockchain technologies to build the world's first open-source blockchain-based satellite network. In April 2019…
NEWSCreated: 02/10/2019Compliance monitoring of EU’s Common Agricultural Policy made more transparent and efficient with Open Source
The RECAP project aims to develop an improved remote monitoring of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) obligations and to supplement the in-field inspections procedures, reducing the compliance costs…
NEWSCreated: 23/09/2019Electronic Register of Common Land for Wales to launch in 2022
In order to comply with the Welsh Government’s digital-first approach and further enable the implementation of the Commons Act 2006, the current paper-based registers and associated maps will be…
NEWSCreated: 28/08/2019UK grant for open source healthcare
The UK government has awarded a GBP 790,000 (about EUR 990,000) grant to research and implement eObs, an open source digital healthcare observation solution that can identify patients who are…
NEWSCreated: 19/04/2019Tax returns must allow open source, says UK SME
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…
NEWSCreated: 30/11/2018UK GDS: Overcoming barriers to coding in the open
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…
NEWSCreated: 22/11/2018South London healthcare service validates its open source approach
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…
NEWSCreated: 25/09/2018UK’s Bolton hospital extends OpenEyes patient record system
The UK’s Bolton NHS Trust, with its headquarters at the Royal Bolton Hospital, has extended OpenEyes, a web-based patient records system for ophthalmology. The health services provider has funded the…
NEWSCreated: 15/06/2017Global Witness open-sources Longform digital storytelling tool
Global Witness, an NGO focusing on the politics and human consequences of environmental problems and natural resources, has made its digital storytelling tool Longform available as open source…
NEWSCreated: 08/06/2017