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A new open source project aims to help Ukrainians fleeing the country by providing accommodation assistance across Europe.
Acquired by Airbnb.org, the platform UASupport provides an interactive map to help volunteers and NGOs offer housing aid to Ukrainians refugees and asylum seekers. Following the war in Ukraine, the…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022
The Digital Public Goods Alliance Announces DPG Charter
As OSOR has reported on earlier, the United Nations has endorsed the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), which is cofounded by Norway, Sierra Leone, the Indian think tank iSPIRT and the United…
NEWSCreated: 11/04/2022
Diverse stakeholders convened to discuss paths to improvement
On 13 January the White House organised a meeting on improving security of open source software with actors representing governmental agencies, private sector and open source foundations…
NEWSCreated: 17/02/2022The 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: 16/02/2022Caritas Deutschland has turned to open source for its online counselling platform.
The registered charity German Caritas Association switched to open source for its platform dedicated to the provision of online counselling services. In doing this, it calls for a growing involvement…
NEWSCreated: 16/07/2021Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) principles are at the heart of CHAOSS Initiative, a Linux Foundation open source project.
CHAOSS launched the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, which collaborates with public and private organisations to build out diversity-related international standards for open source…
NEWSCreated: 16/06/2021The Cloud Native Computing Foundation launched the Inclusive Naming Initiative for an inclusive programming language.
The Inclusive Naming Initiative aims to help create international standards for the replacement of non-inclusive and harmful IT language with neutral terms, and share them to both industry and public…
NEWSCreated: 11/06/2021US 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: 26/04/2021German private contract tracing app becomes open source after being procured by regional governments
One of the positive developments of COVID-19 was a readjustment toward the expectation that government developed apps using sensitive data should be made available as open source. The OSOR has…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2021The latest survey of over 1200 contributors provides recommendations for more secure Open Source Software
A new report on a survey of over 1,200 Open Source contributors has been published as a part of a bigger research on improving security and sustainability of Open Source Software. What are the most…
NEWSCreated: 21/12/2020Germany trials X-Road to provide interoperable digital prescriptions
In times of COVID-19, trustworthy, interoperable public sector solutions are of special importance. Germany is trialing further digitisation of its healthcare and is relying on X-Road® data exchange…
NEWSCreated: 09/12/2020Belgium saved 85% of development effort by forking the German COVID-19 app
By basing Coronalert on the German Corona Warn App, Belgium achieved reduced costs, development time and gained transparency. Earlier this week, an article on the OSOR reported on COVID-19 tracing…
NEWSCreated: 12/11/2020