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Interactive map on environmental justice in the United States
Back in February, the White House published a beta version of an open source environmental justice tool that features an interactive map of communities in the United States and indicators on climate…
NEWSCreated: 28/04/2022

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: 30/07/2021

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: 09/06/2021
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) published the first results of the X-Road Emissions Calculator Project.
In collaboration with Gofore Plc and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NIIS assessed the environmental footprint of the X-Road ecosystem solution, in order to reduce its CO2 emissions and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2021
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: 26/04/2021
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: 05/03/2021
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: 03/03/2021
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: 24/02/2021
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: 17/12/2020
Key takeaways from the webinar on OSS and public procurement
The purpose of the webinar was to discuss and exchange best practices and practical solutions regarding the inclusion of open source software (OSS) in public procurement processes. Webinar…
NEWSCreated: 10/11/2020
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: 21/08/2019
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: 01/08/2019