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French Minister announces new plan for supporting open source
The Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service of France, Amélie de Montchalin announced a new action plan for open source software in the public sector at the closing of the Paris…
NEWSCreated: 14/12/2021Updated Date: 31/05/2022
EU study on the impact of open source published
The study on the impact of Open Source Software and Hardware for the European Commission found that open source software and hardware are key for the region's digital transformation and can be a major…
NEWSCreated: 06/09/2021Updated Date: 06/09/2021
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
Open data developments and directive transposition
The Polish Parliament unanimously voted for the law transposing the directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information on 23 July. Back in 2016 we wrote about the public consultation…
NEWSCreated: 06/08/2021Updated Date: 06/08/2021
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Parlimentary mission supports open source
In July 2020 the French National Assembly convened a special mission on building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty. The mission has just published its first report last month…
NEWSCreated: 04/08/2021Updated Date: 04/08/2021
France recognises open source in its National Plan for Open Science 2021-2024
The French Ministry of Research shared its Second National Plan for Open Science for the years 2021-2024 on 6 July. The Plan foresees several initiatives aimed at increasing the reach of open science…
NEWSCreated: 30/07/2021Updated Date: 30/07/2021
'Open Source will be a key element to achieve Europe’s resilience and digital sovereignty'
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 European Commission set up the 1 June as the deadline for the go-live of the Digital Green Certificate.
After the publication of the Guidelines on Technical Specifications for Digital Green Certificates (DGC), it is now up to the Member States to deliver the open source reference implementations for the…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2021Updated Date: 11/05/2021
The DigitALL Public conference dedicated a full session to the role of open source in the public sector.
By addressing the challenges and opportunities of using open source in the public domain, the session focused on the benefits that public administration could gain from open source and drew ideas to…
NEWSCreated: 04/05/2021Updated Date: 04/05/2021
ESOP joins APELL
The Association of Portuguese Open Source Software Companies (ESOP) joins its Finnish, French and German counterparts as a new member of the European Open Source Business Association (APELL). The…
NEWSCreated: 09/02/2021Updated Date: 16/02/2021
OECD: open-source software pivotal in artificial intelligence
Open-source software plays an important role in artificial intelligence (AI). This includes specific software libraries, editors and development environments, and machine learning platforms. So say…
NEWSCreated: 23/11/2018Updated Date: 06/12/2018
Open source community worried about Copyright Directive
This week, more than 80 organisations involved in open source software wrote an open letter to the Council of the EU and the European Commission expressing their concerns on the new Copyright…
NEWSCreated: 02/12/2017Updated Date: 09/01/2018