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The European Commission launched Interoperable Europe, the new policy framework for interoperability in the EU.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, Interoperable Europe builds on ISA2 and puts open cooperation with the Member States at its heart. On 21 November, the European Commission announced the launch…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022Updated Date: 17/01/2022
Diversity, 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: 16/06/2021Updated Date: 16/06/2021
The 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: 11/06/2021Updated Date: 15/06/2021
LocalGov Drupal: a successful story of open cooperation between and within UK Councils
In the span of a year, the council of Brighton and Hove has fully open sourced its publishing platform. By sharing knowledge and skills, Croydon (and others) could do the same - but in one-third of…
NEWSCreated: 08/04/2021Updated Date: 08/04/2021
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Open enables public sector digital transformation in the Netherlands
Citizens expect well-functioning digital services from their government. Until recently, municipalities in the Netherlands were held back in providing these services by fragmented systems that would…
NEWSCreated: 07/04/2021Updated Date: 07/04/2021
Commission provides data aggregation solution for Smart Cities to public administrations
The city is a vast and complex ecosystem. Digital transformation lifts this ecosystem into the virtual domain. Yet, without structure, this vast amount of data is useless. The European Commission’s…
NEWSCreated: 15/01/2021Updated Date: 15/01/2021
Open Source and Digital Platforms
A white paper from the Internet Society identifies open source as a way of increasing competition in the internet platform market through interoperability. That open source plays an important role in…
NEWSCreated: 22/12/2020Updated Date: 22/12/2020
Germany 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: 09/12/2020Updated Date: 15/12/2020
OSOR Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector
The OSOR team is thrilled to announce that the Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector have been published! The Guidelines offer practical tips for civil servants at…
NEWSCreated: 16/11/2020Updated Date: 19/11/2020
The sixth version of Standard for Public Code has been released on GitHub and the development of version 0.2.1 is open for contributions
On 4 November, a new version of Standard for Public Code was released and appeared on GitHub. This is version 0.2.0. The Standard is a collection of criteria, which are necessary for creating a…
NEWSCreated: 05/11/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Germany's BSI responsible for further development of Mailvelope
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has invested in the further development of Mailvelope, an open source browser plugin for end-to-end encryption of webmail and web forms. The…
NEWSCreated: 28/08/2019Updated Date: 28/08/2019
European TSO's go open source in building the smart electricity grid
RTE and TenneT, the two largest European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs), will discuss their digitalisation and open source strategies in a webinar on 8 August 2019. Both operators…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2019Updated Date: 02/08/2019