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Open source toolkit for botanical gardens based on concrete needs
Botanical gardens located in Switzerland and France have together developed an application consisting of microservices for documenting and sharing data among each other and potentially other gardens…
NEWSCreated: 20/08/2021Updated Date: 20/08/2021
Major support boost for Swiss parliament’s digital sustainability group
Digitalswitzerland, the country’s largest industry association encouraging ICT and innovation, has joined Parldigi, the Swiss parliamentarian group on digital sustainability. The parliamentarians say…
NEWSCreated: 04/09/2020Updated Date: 04/09/2020
Switzerland plans to anchor public services’ contribution to open source in law
Swiss federal government organisations and agencies will soon be free to share the source code of their software solutions as open source. In addition, software developers working for the federal…
NEWSCreated: 05/02/2020Updated Date: 06/02/2020
Zürich Canton to share its software as open source
The Swiss Canton of Zürich will make software developed for or by its public services available as open source. On 30 September the Canton parliament accepted a proposal to change the way it develops…
NEWSCreated: 11/10/2019Updated Date: 11/10/2019
Germany's BSI responsible for further development of Mailvelope
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has invested in the further development of Mailvelope, an open source browser plugin for end-to-end encryption of webmail and web forms. The…
NEWSCreated: 28/08/2019Updated Date: 28/08/2019
Canton of Bern removes barriers to sharing its software as open source
The Swiss canton of Bern has begun sharing software developed by and for the canton as open source. Earlier this year the canton adapted its ICT regulations to allow code sharing, and last week Bern…
NEWSCreated: 16/12/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Open-source RISC processors making waves in research and industry
It's still early in terms of silicon implementations, tooling and operating system support, but the open RISC-V processor specification is making inroads in the processor world. As RISC-V Marketing…
NEWSCreated: 11/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Renewed push for adoption of ODF document standard
The Document Foundation, the organisation supporting the development of LibreOffice, is calling for supporters to promote the use of Open Document Format (ODF). Standardisation organisation OASIS…
NEWSCreated: 09/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Swiss city of Bern publishes its first open source project
The capital of Switzerland, Bern, has published its first open source solution. The software, Ki-Tax, is used by the city to manage external childcare subsidies. In addition, the city is introducing…
NEWSCreated: 25/08/2018Updated Date: 03/04/2019
Swiss BBL to extend its use of open source GIS
The Swiss Federal Department for Building and Logistics (BBL) is looking for providers of ICT services with experience in the use of GeoNetwork, open source tools for geolocation information. BBL…
NEWSCreated: 28/12/2016Updated Date: 28/12/2016
Geneva canton publishes eVoting system source code
The Canton of Geneva (Switzerland) has published the first components of the source code of its electronic voting system as open source code, under the GNU Affero general public license. The software…
NEWSCreated: 15/12/2016Updated Date: 15/12/2016
Switzerland to create an open food data programme
Opendata.ch, which represents the Open Knowledge Foundation in Switzerland, has launched the Business Innovation food.opendata.ch programme, with the goal of building an open and public database on…
NEWSCreated: 27/11/2016Updated Date: 27/11/2016