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Codelist for bio-geographical regions, Europe 2011
Europe 2011 - The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the…
SOLUTIONCreated: 04/06/2013
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: 30/09/2021
A conversation with Petteri Kivimäki on X-Road®
Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), agreed to be interviewed on the history and the impact of X-Road®, the open source data exchange layer solution…
NEWSCreated: 09/08/2021
Kausal Watch does climate monitoring and accountability build-in
Kausal Watch started in Helsinki municipality, Finland, when a platform for overview over climate progress was developed in 2019. One year later it grew to become a open source company with its data…
NEWSCreated: 12/07/2021
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
Finnish pedagogical technology for schools with remote teaching
The creation and coding project Mehackit is one of the education technologies (edTech) in the initiative Koulu.me. In Mehackit coding can also be taught through visual arts. Finnish koulu.me is an…
NEWSCreated: 22/02/2021
Highlights of Interview - NIIS - X-Road
Introduction ABR project team handled an interesting discussion with authorities from Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) based on the questions from the Interview Guide. We are…
NEWSCreated: 10/11/2020
Finland successfully migrates university libraries to free software backend
On January 11th, the National Library of Finland has announced the successful migration of the University of Jyväskylä to Koha library system. It's so far the second and biggest migration to the free…
NEWSCreated: 23/01/2019
Six examples of cross-border ICT solution reuse
Overcoming laws and languages, public administrations start sharing and reusing ICT solutions
It is never simple. Reuse by public administrations of software applications developed for or by their…
NEWSCreated: 31/05/2017
Finland to boost its information security industry
Draft Information Security Strategy submitted to government The Finnish government should help to create a competitive information security industry, recommends a report by a task-force at the…
NEWSCreated: 26/02/2016
NIFO renews comparison of interoperability frameworks
The National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) community is making available a new series of factsheets, following a recent analysis of the policies and activities on interoperability in…
NEWSCreated: 27/06/2014
Finland tackles interoperability in its proposed public sector ICT strategy 2012-2020
The new ICT strategy for public administrations was presented to Henna Virkkunen, the Finnish Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, on 17 October 2012. Among the 10 measures to…
NEWSCreated: 06/11/2012