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The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation adopts GNU Health for the research and management of Trisomy 21 and other intellectual disabilities of genetic origin.
We start 2023 with exciting news for the medical and scientific community! GNU Health has been adopted by he Jérôme Lejeune foundation, a leading organization in the research and management of trisomy…
NEWSCreated: 14/01/2023Updated Date: 25/01/2023

Interview: Dr Luis Falcon, GNU Health, free software in healthcare
Dr Luis Falcon is a medical doctor and computer scientist. He combines these skills to work on GNU Health to bring free software / open source to the healthcare sector. He spoke with us about progress…
NEWSCreated: 03/11/2022Updated Date: 24/01/2023

Galician Region publishes a guide to Good Practices for Releasing Open Source Content and Software
The Galician Regional Government, an autonomous community of Spain, published in September their “Guía de boas prácticas para liberación de contidos e software” (Guide to Good Practices for Content…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2022Updated Date: 03/11/2022
Watch the presentation of the first regulatory sandbox
On 27 June 2022, the Government of Spain and the European Commission organised an event on “Bringing the AI Regulation Forward”. The event aimed to launch Spain’s pilot for a Regulatory Sandbox on…
NEWSCreated: 30/06/2022Updated Date: 01/07/2022
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
Spain shares its Covid-19 app as open source following appeal from scientists
Earlier this month, Spain published as open source the code for its Covid-19 track and trace application. Publication of the source code came just a few days after an online manifesto gathered more…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2020Updated Date: 28/10/2020
Open hardware lets Lleida students finish work during Covid-19 lockdown
For computer engineering students at the University of Lleida in Spain, having access to open source hardware lets them work at home, reducing the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on their studies…
NEWSCreated: 28/09/2020Updated Date: 28/09/2020
The City of Barcelona’s participatory democracy open source platform
Supported by Barcelona City Council, Decidim is an open source digital platform dedicated to participatory democracy, entirely designed and built in a collaborative manner. Since its inception, the…
NEWSCreated: 01/07/2020Updated Date: 01/07/2020
Galicia’s Rianxo municipality uses open source for nearly everything
The municipality of Rianxo is one of those European public services that deserves to make the headlines because almost everything is done using free and open source software. For other public services…
NEWSCreated: 01/05/2020Updated Date: 01/05/2020
Spanish and French governments turn to open source video-conferencing platform
The Spanish and French governments have turned to an open-source solution, Jitsi Meet, to host online meetings and press conferences. Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing tool that doesn’t require the…
NEWSCreated: 29/04/2020Updated Date: 29/04/2020
GIS video tutorial attracts municipalities from across Europe
An online training course on gvSIG - an open source geographic information system (GIS) - continues to attract new users from Europe and across the globe. Over the past two years the gvSIG Association…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020Updated Date: 24/04/2020
Spain’s Bizkaia lets companies and citizens experiment with open source blockchain platform
The provincial council of Bizkaia, one of the provinces of the Basque Country in Spain, is letting companies and citizens run experiments with its blockchain platform in the hope of spinning off…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2020Updated Date: 12/03/2020