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Webinar: Public Services Open-Source Governance and Collaboration
The European Commission’s DG DIGIT, in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Interior and Open Cities, is organising a webinar “Public services open-source governance and collaboration” on 30 March…
NEWSCreated: 21/03/2023Updated Date: 22/03/2023
Software Power: The Economic and Geopolitical Implications of Open Source Software
Software Power: The Economic and Geopolitical Implications of Open Source Software by Alice Pannier, Research Fellow, Head of Ifri*'s Geopolitics of Technology Program *IFRI is the French Institute of…
NEWSCreated: 05/01/2023Updated Date: 06/01/2023
New open source digital services for the residents of Bratislava
The City of Bratislava is currently building a whole new ecosystem of open source digital services under the leadership of its CIO Petra Dzurovčinová. These services will be tested in Slovakia's…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022Updated Date: 24/05/2022
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: 28/04/2022Updated Date: 28/04/2022
The Digital Public Goods Alliance Announces DPG Charter
As OSOR has reported on earlier, the United Nations has endorsed the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), which is cofounded by Norway, Sierra Leone, the Indian think tank iSPIRT and the United…
NEWSCreated: 11/04/2022Updated Date: 11/04/2022
Middle schools in Brittany turned to open source software for their file system management.
The Ille-et-Vilaine department in France deployed an open source software for file management to 21 middle schools, accounting for 12,000 users between teachers and students. In December 2021, the…
NEWSCreated: 21/01/2022Updated Date: 21/01/2022
The EU Digital COVID Certificate is officially on across Europe.
In compliance with the 1 July deadline, all the Member States as well as other non-EU countries effectively connected with the EU Gateway, thus going live with the EU Digital COVID Certificate. On 1…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2021Updated Date: 11/08/2021
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: 09/08/2021Updated Date: 09/08/2021
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation launched the Inclusive Naming Initiative for an inclusive programming language.
The Inclusive Naming Initiative aims to help create international standards for the replacement of non-inclusive and harmful IT language with neutral terms, and share them to both industry and public…
NEWSCreated: 11/06/2021Updated Date: 15/06/2021
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: 09/06/2021Updated Date: 09/06/2021
Transcoder Encore provides SVT with speed and flexibility
Swedish national public television broadcaster SVT has committed in 2018 to increase working with open source. Having released a number of own developments over the last years, SVT is now publishing…
NEWSCreated: 25/05/2021Updated Date: 25/05/2021
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: 05/05/2021Updated Date: 05/05/2021