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Four Finnish cities collaborate to develop, manage and maintain an open source ERP system for early childhood education.
Deployed firstly by the city of Espoo, the open source software eVaka reached its second year of operation in providing citizens with information and functionalities on kindergartens and early…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022Updated Date: 17/01/2022
A conversation with Petteri Kivimäki on X-Road®
Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), agreed to be interviewed on the history and the impact of X-Road®, the open source data exchange layer solution…
NEWSCreated: 09/08/2021Updated Date: 09/08/2021
Kausal Watch does climate monitoring and accountability build-in
Kausal Watch started in Helsinki municipality, Finland, when a platform for overview over climate progress was developed in 2019. One year later it grew to become a open source company with its data…
NEWSCreated: 12/07/2021Updated Date: 14/07/2021
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) published the first results of the X-Road Emissions Calculator Project.
In collaboration with Gofore Plc and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NIIS assessed the environmental footprint of the X-Road ecosystem solution, in order to reduce its CO2 emissions and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2021Updated Date: 05/05/2021
Finnish pedagogical technology for schools with remote teaching
The creation and coding project Mehackit is one of the education technologies (edTech) in the initiative Koulu.me. In Mehackit coding can also be taught through visual arts. Finnish koulu.me is an…
NEWSCreated: 22/02/2021Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Finland’s Covid-19 trace app published as open source
On Tuesday, Finland’s Koronavilkku Covid-19 track and trace application was published as an open source solution under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). The Koronavilkku software is being…
NEWSCreated: 27/08/2020Updated Date: 28/08/2020
Study of open source tools for unified communication and collaboration targets Finnish municipalities
Finland’s Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS) is about to start a study into the use of open source software solutions for unified communication and collaboration. The centre says that smaller…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2020Updated Date: 12/08/2020
Hämeenlinna joins network of Finnish municipalities for open source
The city of Hämeenlinna (Finland) recognises open technology as an opportunity to attract tech companies and get citizens involved. That is why the municipality is now increasing its use of – and…
NEWSCreated: 29/04/2020Updated Date: 04/05/2020
Open source tools adopted by seven European cities to fight construction and organic waste
Launched in 2019, the EU-funded CityLoops project aims to tackle the issue of excessive construction and organic waste, which are two of the most significant urban material flows. Using the principles…
NEWSCreated: 19/02/2020Updated Date: 19/02/2020
Europe’s open source service providers appeal for political support
Open source trade associations from France, Germany and Finland have joined forces to create the Association Professionnelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre (APELL). The new umbrella organisation was…
NEWSCreated: 04/02/2020Updated Date: 14/09/2020
New Finnish government to promote open source
The new government of Finland, formally appointed on 6 June, will promote the use of open source software for public services’ IT systems. The preference for open source, open (programming) interfaces…
NEWSCreated: 14/08/2019Updated Date: 14/08/2019
Finland successfully migrates university libraries to free software backend
On January 11th, the National Library of Finland has announced the successful migration of the University of Jyväskylä to Koha library system. It's so far the second and biggest migration to the free…
NEWSCreated: 23/01/2019Updated Date: 05/04/2019