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France recognises open source in its National Plan for Open Science 2021-2024
The French Ministry of Research shared its Second National Plan for Open Science for the years 2021-2024 on 6 July. The Plan foresees several initiatives aimed at increasing the reach of open science…
NEWSCreated: 30/07/2021Updated Date: 30/07/2021
There are fewer women in open source than in the ICT sector overall
Study after study has proven that women are underrepresented in virtually all sectors of ICT. Women make up a quarter of all persons working in the tech industry, according to PwC’s Women in Tech…
NEWSCreated: 09/06/2021Updated Date: 09/06/2021
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: 26/04/2021Updated Date: 26/04/2021
Greece welcomes the third round of the Panhellenic Competition of Open Technologies in Education
Reaching its third year of implementation, the Contest gathers universities, research centres, NGOs, regional and local governments from all Greek regions. Organised by the Open Technologies Alliance…
NEWSCreated: 05/03/2021Updated Date: 05/03/2021
More collaboration and clarity in Open Science, study says
The latest report on the state of Open Source Software in higher education and research was published at the end of January. The report is a part of the support that DINUM, the French interministerial…
NEWSCreated: 03/03/2021Updated Date: 15/03/2021
Linux landed on Mars
The drone helicopter Ingenuity, landed on Mars on February 18, represents a success for the Open Source community, as it runs on a Linux operating system and is based on an Open Source Software…
NEWSCreated: 24/02/2021Updated Date: 24/02/2021
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: 17/12/2020Updated Date: 17/12/2020
Luxembourg launches open data lake for space analytics
Spire Global, a large space-to-cloud analytics company co-funded with the Luxembourg Space Agency one of the largest open data lakes for space data analytics. As of July 2019, the open data lake…
NEWSCreated: 21/08/2019Updated Date: 09/09/2019
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: 22/07/2019Updated Date: 22/07/2019
Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia join EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
This month the Linux Foundation launched the CHIPS Alliance, which will be home to open source projects related to microprocessors and Systems on a Chip (SoCs). All the early backers — Esperanto…
NEWSCreated: 20/03/2019Updated Date: 03/04/2019
A call for open research computation
Openness has become an important pillar of science practice. Open access makes research output (i.e. scientific publications) publicly available. In an EU context, open access also includes open…
NEWSCreated: 05/12/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
OECD: open-source software pivotal in artificial intelligence
Open-source software plays an important role in artificial intelligence (AI). This includes specific software libraries, editors and development environments, and machine learning platforms. So say…
NEWSCreated: 23/11/2018Updated Date: 06/12/2018