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New OSS-player in participatory democracy and climate action
The platform Citizenlab has open sourced their code base and made the ‘small package’ free. The platform is intended to stimulate transparency in the democratic process and encourage collective…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2021Updated Date: 15/10/2021
Check the new release of Vocbench, a platfom for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2021Updated Date: 30/09/2021
The middleware of the Belgian eID (electronic identification) is open source
In Belgium, BOSA, the governmental unit for Digital Transformation, has developed secure digital ‘keys’ for citizens to communicate with public bodies. The middleware for the eID is released as open…
NEWSCreated: 14/07/2021Updated Date: 14/07/2021
Belgium 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: 12/11/2020Updated Date: 12/11/2020
Launch of the Digital Government Transformation MOOC!
Get a 5 Online Continuing Education Units certificate on Digital Government Transformation in one month!
NEWSCreated: 03/09/2020Updated Date: 14/09/2020
Wallonia’s GeoChallenge competition likely to favour open source
Availability as open source is not a requirement for entries to the GeoChallenge competition for geographic solutions launched by Belgium’s Walloon region. However, “[open source] will not be…
NEWSCreated: 27/02/2020Updated Date: 27/02/2020
A look on the Bank of Belgium API design guide
Joinup continues here with a periodical survey of remarkable EUPL distributed software. As a licence, the EUPL is widely used across Europe by institutions and business bodies. The National Bank of…
NEWSCreated: 04/11/2019Updated Date: 14/11/2019
Belgium: government source code is public information
The government of Belgium considers the source code of software solutions created for or by its public services to be public information that must be made available on request. The federal government…
NEWSCreated: 25/07/2019Updated Date: 01/08/2019
Informatie Vlaanderen: more software under EUPL
In the framework of its project ”Gebouwen and Adressenregister”, the Flemish Region’s Information Agency develops on Github and licenses under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL v1.2) a series of…
NEWSCreated: 30/01/2019Updated Date: 21/01/2022
Open source at the heart of Belgium’s development cooperation organisation
Because it makes it easier to work together, and because it encourages the sharing, reuse, and improvement of ICT solutions, free and open source is a strategic choice for Enabel, the Belgian…
NEWSCreated: 08/01/2019Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Best practices of digital public services
Everyday stories from Member States showing how public services can go digital!
NEWSCreated: 26/06/2018Updated Date: 26/06/2018
Belgian data exchange urges switch to web services
For the automatic exchange of authenticated records, public services in Belgium are being advised to prepare to switch to web services. The country’s Crossroads Bank for Social Security says it will…
NEWSCreated: 29/08/2017Updated Date: 29/08/2017