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Irish Covid-19 app moves beyond Ireland
One year ago, in July 2020, Ireland’s COVID tracing app was released, which is based on an exposure notification system, a tool used against the spread of COVID globally. It was popular nationally and…
NEWSCreated: 13/07/2021Updated Date: 14/07/2021
Researchers in Ireland start open source programme offices
The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software (Lero), headquartered in Limerick, and Trinity College Dublin have both started open source programme offices this month, to increase their…
NEWSCreated: 16/10/2020Updated Date: 16/10/2020
Ireland’s environmental agency wins eGov open source award
Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has won the Ireland eGovernment API & Open Source Award for its extensive use of open source in its on-line geographic information services (GIS). The…
NEWSCreated: 29/10/2019Updated Date: 04/11/2019
Dublin awards Moodle elearning system support contract
The Education and Training Board of the City of Dublin has signed a EUR 158,400 support contract for its current Moodle eLearning environment, it announced in late November. The city’s cloud-hosted…
NEWSCreated: 28/12/2016Updated Date: 11/05/2022
EC study: open source an important enabler for public sector collaboration
Open source software provides an easy and affordable way to improve existing public services. According to the EC report 'Analysis of the Value of New Generation of eGovernment Services and How Can…
NEWSCreated: 23/12/2016Updated Date: 23/12/2016
Ireland submits its second action plan for consultation
In mid-November, a public consultation was opened to allow civil society in Ireland to review and comment on the draft of the country’s second OGP National Action Plan. The 15-day consultation was…
NEWSCreated: 01/12/2016Updated Date: 01/12/2016
European countries awarded for their “star” commitments
Ireland, Ukraine, Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Georgia and Italy are countries whose commitments to Open Government have been awarded by the OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). IRM…
NEWSCreated: 02/08/2016Updated Date: 02/08/2016
SoldiPubblici one of OGP showcases awarded star status
SoldiPubblici, an open data portal providing the public with information on Italian government expenditure, has been acknowledged as a "star" commitment by the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2016Updated Date: 01/08/2016
Ireland performs well in citizen participation - IRM report
During the first year of implementation of its national Action Plan, Ireland completed 6 of the 30 actions listed in the plan, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) revealed in a progress report…
NEWSCreated: 30/05/2016Updated Date: 30/05/2016
Lower costs nudge Irish police towards open source
Many more opportunities for its customer relationship management software Ireland’s police force, An Garda Síochána, is tentatively considering using the open source version of SugarCMR for more of…
NEWSCreated: 22/04/2016Updated Date: 22/04/2016
‘Open source essential to government modernisation’
Limerick’s multiple front desks merged into one customer centre Using open source has set the city of Limerick (Ireland) free to modernise its organisation. The city has merged several isolated…
NEWSCreated: 14/03/2016Updated Date: 14/03/2016
Open source lets Irish Taxes scale IT solutions
Apache Solr unleashes enterprise search at Revenue Commissioners The freedoms that come with open source software licences have set Ireland’s tax authorities free to scale-up its enterprise search. On…
NEWSCreated: 11/03/2016Updated Date: 11/03/2016