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Developers from all over the world are collaborating to facilitate cross-border movements of Ukrainians.
Based on open technologies, this initiative aims to support the people in Ukraine by providing timely information on border crossings, missile alerts, missing person reporting, accommodation and…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2022
CollaborationFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+3 topics
All EU Member States adopted the Strasbourg Declaration outlining the coordination strategy for public administrations.
The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2022
The U.S. Department of Defence has published new guidelines for the internal use of open source for cyber defence purposes
The U.S. Department of Defence CIO urged the Department to prefer open source over proprietary solutions. On 24 January 2022, the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) Chief Information Officer John…
NEWSCreated: 16/02/2022
Open data developments and directive transposition
The Polish Parliament unanimously voted for the law transposing the directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information on 23 July. Back in 2016 we wrote about the public consultation…
NEWSCreated: 06/08/2021
'Open Source will be a key element to achieve Europe’s resilience and digital sovereignty'
Open source gained increasing interest on the political level of digital policy discussions in recent months. Recently, the European Commission set up an Open Source Programme Office and expressed…
NEWSCreated: 28/06/2021
US GOV OPS collaboration on 5G
The Linux Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed an agreement to create the US Government Open Programmable Secure (US GOV OPS) which will accelerate innovation…
NEWSCreated: 26/04/2021
Spanish Air Force fights obsolescence and insecurity through open source
Keeping the ICT systems and infrastructures of the Spanish Air Force secure is like fighting a many-headed dragon. So Col. Fernando Acero Martin, Director of Cyber Defence at the Spanish Air Force…
NEWSCreated: 22/07/2019
Russian observers test election monitoring app
Ethereum-based software will become publicly available early next year National Public Monitoring (NOM), a Russian independent association of public observers, has been testing a monitoring tool for…
NEWSCreated: 28/11/2018
The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2021 on 5 February
About the event This year’s EC Open Source Policy Summit will be virtual and will start with two keynotes: the European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton and the Senior Vice President…
EVENTCreated: 26/01/2021
Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe
Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe 5-6 Feb 2018: Workshops and Tutorials 7-8 Feb 2018: Unconference
EVENTCreated: 19/01/2018