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Interview: Dr Luis Falcon, GNU Health, free software in healthcare
Dr Luis Falcon is a medical doctor and computer scientist. He combines these skills to work on GNU Health to bring free software / open source to the healthcare sector. He spoke with us about progress…
NEWSCreated: 03/11/2022Updated Date: 31/01/2023
Galician Region publishes a guide to Good Practices for Releasing Open Source Content and Software
The Galician Regional Government, an autonomous community of Spain, published in September their “Guía de boas prácticas para liberación de contidos e software” (Guide to Good Practices for Content…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2022Updated Date: 03/11/2022
Spain shares its Covid-19 app as open source following appeal from scientists
Earlier this month, Spain published as open source the code for its Covid-19 track and trace application. Publication of the source code came just a few days after an online manifesto gathered more…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2020Updated Date: 28/10/2020
Open hardware lets Lleida students finish work during Covid-19 lockdown
For computer engineering students at the University of Lleida in Spain, having access to open source hardware lets them work at home, reducing the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on their studies…
NEWSCreated: 28/09/2020Updated Date: 28/09/2020
The City of Barcelona’s participatory democracy open source platform
Supported by Barcelona City Council, Decidim is an open source digital platform dedicated to participatory democracy, entirely designed and built in a collaborative manner. Since its inception, the…
NEWSCreated: 01/07/2020Updated Date: 01/07/2020
Galicia’s Rianxo municipality uses open source for nearly everything
The municipality of Rianxo is one of those European public services that deserves to make the headlines because almost everything is done using free and open source software. For other public services…
NEWSCreated: 01/05/2020Updated Date: 01/05/2020
Spanish and French governments turn to open source video-conferencing platform
The Spanish and French governments have turned to an open-source solution, Jitsi Meet, to host online meetings and press conferences. Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing tool that doesn’t require the…
NEWSCreated: 29/04/2020Updated Date: 29/04/2020
GIS video tutorial attracts municipalities from across Europe
An online training course on gvSIG - an open source geographic information system (GIS) - continues to attract new users from Europe and across the globe. Over the past two years the gvSIG Association…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020Updated Date: 24/04/2020
Spain’s Bizkaia lets companies and citizens experiment with open source blockchain platform
The provincial council of Bizkaia, one of the provinces of the Basque Country in Spain, is letting companies and citizens run experiments with its blockchain platform in the hope of spinning off…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2020Updated Date: 12/03/2020
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
Barcelona supercomputing centre tests Spain’s first open source CPU
Barcelona’s Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is testing its first batch of 100 open source chips based on the RISC-V computer instruction set architecture. The centre aims to build open source CPUs that…
NEWSCreated: 29/01/2020Updated Date: 26/02/2020
Open source entering the race for alternative energy research
Joint German and Spanish research project managed to describe complex physical processes in the Earth's crust using open source research platform, OpenGeoSys. The insights generated will contribute to…
NEWSCreated: 03/10/2019Updated Date: 03/10/2019