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New rules will be adopted by “traffic light” coalition that will be major boon for open source
The new German federal government is in office since early December and promises to give open source in the biggest EU Member State another boost, with a number of new commitments. Open source will be…
NEWSCreated: 21/01/2022
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+1 topics
German government executes OSS-based vision of digital sovereignty
The German government is taking the next steps to fulfil its commitment of increasing the level of digital sovereignty of its public sector. In a recent decision, the Conference of the IT Coordinators…
NEWSCreated: 07/07/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsOpen government+2 topics
City of Dortmund commits to preferring open source
In what was likely the biggest success of the independent civil society organisation Do-FOSS, the city council of Dortmund adopted two resolutions, setting out the goal for the city to make the use…
NEWSCreated: 03/05/2021
Detection and analysis of cancer improved by collaboration through an Open Source project
Researchers around the public German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have used the collaborative power of Open Source to build a decentralised tool analysing medical imagery while respecting strict data…
NEWSCreated: 17/12/2020
European TSO's go open source in building the smart electricity grid
RTE and TenneT, the two largest European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs), will discuss their digitalisation and open source strategies in a webinar on 8 August 2019. Both operators…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2019