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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
'Open Source will be a key element to achieve Europe’s resilience and digital sovereignty'
Open source gained increasing interest on the political level of digital policy discussions in recent months. Recently, the European Commission set up an Open Source Programme Office and expressed…
NEWSCreated: 28/06/2021Updated Date: 30/06/2021
Agência para a Modernização Administrativa
For nearly ten years soon, and in conformity to the global strategic plan that has been set up in 2012 already for the Portuguese Council of Ministers by the PGICT (Project group for Information and…
NEWSCreated: 25/05/2021Updated Date: 25/05/2021
Public sector institutions recognised for their involvement in Open Source in Portugal
The Portuguese Prémio Abertura Award 2020 was presented at the Open Source Lisbon conference on 11 November by the Portuguese Open Source Businesses Association, ESOP. While the winner is a private…
NEWSCreated: 16/12/2020Updated Date: 16/12/2020
InovX: Innovation Panel for Public Sector
For answering to the present-day challenges and to proactively prepare the future of the public sector, we need a rigorous and robust knowledge about its real existing practices of innovation, taking…
NEWSCreated: 07/11/2020Updated Date: 02/12/2020
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
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
Portuguese open source trade group pushes public services to pool efforts
ESOP, which represents Portugal’s open source services providers, will try to persuade towns and cities in the country to pool their efforts on this type of software, taking a cue from Belgium…
NEWSCreated: 04/12/2019Updated Date: 18/06/2020
LabX
The Experimentation Lab for Public Administration (LabX), a team of the Administrative Modernization Agency (AMA), has the objective to experiment with new solutions to improve public services and the…
NEWSCreated: 30/11/2019Updated Date: 11/12/2019
Portugal’s Seixal completes switch to LibreOffice
The Portuguese town of Seixal has completed its migration to LibreOffice on the workstations across its departments in early 2019. The city administration in 2017 decided to switch to LibreOffice…
NEWSCreated: 31/10/2019Updated Date: 03/11/2019
Trade group praises Portuguese public sector project
The use of open source at Portugal’s Institute for Justice Financial Management and Infrastructures (IGFEJ), funded by the Ministry of Finance, has been praised by ESOP, the country’s trade group for…
NEWSCreated: 04/10/2018Updated 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