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Volunteers in Open Labs played an important role in introducing FLOSS to local government
The voluntary open source community Open Labs has played a role in the introduction of Nextcloud and Libre Office to the municipality of Tirana (the capital of Albania). The goal for this community is…
NEWSCreated: 02/09/2021Updated Date: 03/09/2021
Tirana turns to open standards and open source to modernise government services
To offer modern government services, the city of Tirana (Albania) is turning to open source software. Soon, Tirana will complete the implementation of the LibreOffice suite of office productivity…
NEWSCreated: 22/11/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
The municipality of Tirana goes free open source by using Nextcloud
19.07.2017, Tirana. The municipality of Tirana, the biggest municipality in the country serving over 800,000 citizens, decided to make an important move onto open source technologies, by implementing…
NEWSCreated: 19/07/2017Updated Date: 19/07/2017
Albanian open source advocates target elections
Free and open source software advocates in Albania are going to ask candidates in the June parliamentary elections about their plans for free software. The campaign will be kicked off by Open Labs…
NEWSCreated: 08/03/2017Updated Date: 08/03/2017
Online-only for building permits in Albania
As of the beginning of this months, applications for building permits in Albania have to be filed online through the country’s eGovernment portal, eAlbania. Municipal administrations may no longer…
NEWSCreated: 26/09/2016Updated Date: 26/09/2016
Albania reports tripling of ICT use by companies
Nearly all enterprises (96%) in Albania now use information and telecommunication technology, more than three times as many as in 2012, reports the country’s Ministry for Innovation and Public…
NEWSCreated: 29/08/2016Updated Date: 29/08/2016
OSCAL '16 | Open Source Conference Albania 2016
OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) is the major international tech conference in Albania organized by Open Labs Hackerspace, the open source and free software community in Albania. The…
NEWSCreated: 11/04/2016Updated Date: 11/04/2016
WEBINAR - Open Standards for Linked Overheden (Governmental Authorities), the practice in Flanders
Johan van der Waal Friday 10 April 2015 (15:30 - 16:00) CET Through this brief webinar Mr. van der Waal will share with the audience how the Flemish ICT organisation V-ICT-OR developed…
NEWSCreated: 02/04/2015Updated Date: 02/04/2015
OSCAL '15 | Open Source Conference Albania 2015
OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) is the first annual international tech conference in Albania organized by the open source community in Albania to promote software freedom, open source software…
NEWSCreated: 30/03/2015Updated Date: 30/03/2015
Questionnaire: ICT procurement based on standards
Dear Sir or Madam, as part of the Project "Best practices for ICT procurement based on standards in order to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in" UNIT F2 (Innovation) of DG CONNECT is currently…
NEWSCreated: 23/01/2015Updated Date: 23/01/2015
‘Albania hospitals should switch to open source’
The government of Albania should benefit from using free and open source for managing the country’s hospitals and health clinics, says Gjergj Sheldija. The ICT consultant is implementing Care2x, an…
NEWSCreated: 04/11/2014Updated Date: 04/11/2014
Open source used commonly by authorities Albania
Free and open source software is commonly used by public administrations in Albania, according to a report published earlier this month by the Ministry of Innovation and Public Administration. Most…
NEWSCreated: 30/04/2014Updated Date: 30/04/2014