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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: 12/11/2020
Fight against Covid-19: Germany organised "We vs Virus" hackathon
From the evening of Friday 20/3/2020 to Midnight 22/3/22, Germany organized the WirVsVirus (WeAgainstVirus) hackathon (http://www.wirvsvirushackathon.org). This document has been written by our…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2020Germany'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: 28/08/2019European 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: 01/08/2019German IT security experts join authentication standards consortium
The German Federal Office for Information Security ('Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik', BSI) has joined the FIDO Alliance, an industry consortium working on open standards for…
NEWSCreated: 03/11/2015DE-EU: Open source migration German district Friesland on track
The migration from servers running Windows to (Debian) Linux in the district Friesland is nearly accomplished, according to a report by one the involved on the German IT news site Heise. "It should be…
NEWSCreated: 19/01/2007