Open source gained increasing interest on the political level of digital policy discussions in recent months. Recently, the European Commission set up an Open Source Programme Office and expressed…
NEWSCreated: 28/06/2021Updated Date: 30/06/2021
The Portuguese Prémio Abertura Award 2020 was presented at the Open Source Lisbon conference on 11 November by the Portuguese Open Source Businesses Association, ESOP. While the winner is a private…
NEWSCreated: 16/12/2020Updated Date: 16/12/2020
Launched in 2019, the EU-funded CityLoops project aims to tackle the issue of excessive construction and organic waste, which are two of the most significant urban material flows. Using the principles…
NEWSCreated: 19/02/2020Updated Date: 19/02/2020
ESOP, which represents Portugal’s open source services providers, will try to persuade towns and cities in the country to pool their efforts on this type of software, taking a cue from Belgium…
NEWSCreated: 04/12/2019Updated Date: 18/06/2020
The Portuguese town of Seixal has completed its migration to LibreOffice on the workstations across its departments in early 2019. The city administration in 2017 decided to switch to LibreOffice…
NEWSCreated: 31/10/2019Updated Date: 03/11/2019
The use of open source at Portugal’s Institute for Justice Financial Management and Infrastructures (IGFEJ), funded by the Ministry of Finance, has been praised by ESOP, the country’s trade group for…
NEWSCreated: 04/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
To stop losing control over its digital assets, the Portuguese government should make a sincere move to free and open source software, the country’s open source trade group ESOP says. The business…
NEWSCreated: 14/08/2017Updated Date: 06/12/2018
Last month, the Portuguese Ministry of Health started a pilot to make it easier for citizens to get 'proof of fitness', a requirement to obtain or renew a driving licence. For this purpose, the…
NEWSCreated: 12/04/2017Updated Date: 12/04/2017
During the Paris OGP Summit 2017, Germany and Luxembourg were among the European countries that announced their intent to join the Open Government Partnership. Portugal said it will “soon” become a…
NEWSCreated: 30/12/2016Updated Date: 30/12/2016
The Portuguese Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa, AMA) has published two national open data guides. As its title implies, the 'Open Data Introduction…
NEWSCreated: 06/12/2016Updated Date: 06/12/2016
Fair procurement also still a long way to go, says trade association Public administrations in Portugal are turning to open source ICT solutions slower than anticipated by ESOP, a trade association of…
NEWSCreated: 15/01/2016Updated Date: 06/12/2018
Portugal’s online government gazette, Diário da República Eletrónico (DRE), runs on open source components, including enterprise content management system Liferay and Java application server Jboss…
NEWSCreated: 23/12/2015Updated Date: 23/12/2015