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Wienux marked the beginning of Vienna as a Smart City
The city of Vienna has been on an open source journey which started in the 2000s, and today it has become a Smart City using open source software and methods as well as FIWARE evaluation tools. Since…
NEWSCreated: 03/08/2021Updated Date: 06/08/2021
International team in Linz completes prototype open source pandemic ventilator
PolyVent, a prototype open source pandemic ventilator that can be used to treat patients with severe Covid-19-related pneumonia or lung damage, was presented in Linz (Austria) last week. The machine…
NEWSCreated: 23/10/2020Updated Date: 23/10/2020
Regional Austrian energy agency uses Liferay for its corporate portal
Energie Agentur Steiermark (EA-STMK), the intermediary between Styrian administration, policy, science, economy and customers in the energy sector, has deployed Liferay for its corporate portal. We…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2017Updated Date: 24/04/2017
Austria set to increase its use of open source
Public administrations in Austria need to increase their use of free and open source software, the government of Austria says in its Digital Strategy. The strategy proposes to ‘push’ (forcierung) open…
NEWSCreated: 31/01/2017Updated Date: 31/01/2017
Vienna, KDZ release Open Government Implementation Model
The City of Vienna and KDZ have released version 3.0 of their Open Government Implementation Model to the public in German as well as English. The Model describes five stages of a strategy as well as…
NEWSCreated: 19/09/2016Updated Date: 19/09/2016
Up to EUR 200,000 for Austria open source projects
The Austrian government will award up to EUR 200,000 for open source projects on eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning, eInclusion, or commercial products and services. “Open source has beneficial…
NEWSCreated: 22/08/2016Updated Date: 22/08/2016
Austria awards 'Open Data Oscars'
Last month, the Austrian State Secretary Muna Duzdar handed out the 'Oscars of the Open Data Community'. The awards were part of the 'open4data.at challenge 2016' organised earlier this year. The…
NEWSCreated: 25/07/2016Updated Date: 25/07/2016
Updated Austrian Manual for Data Managers available
Last month, Austria published an updated 'Handbuch für Dateneinsteller' (Manual for Data Managers). It provides the country's public administration with all the information needed by agencies to get…
NEWSCreated: 12/04/2016Updated Date: 12/04/2016
EU funds open source programming research
European Research Council grants for code reviews The European Research Council (ERC) is funding several open source software research projects, including code audits, security testing and on…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2016Updated Date: 23/02/2016
EU funds open source programming research
European Research Council grants for code reviews The European Research Council (ERC) is funding several open source software research projects, including code audits, security testing and on…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2016Updated Date: 23/02/2016
Open data in Austria: a strategy also shared with the private sector
Companies, NGOs, industries, research centres, scientists and citizens in Austria can now publish their own data under an open license though a dedicated portal, Martin Kaltenböck, from Austrian-based…
NEWSCreated: 04/01/2016Updated Date: 04/01/2016
Open source for Austria’s historical calendar
The website listing Austria’s historical commemorations and anniversaries is built on open source components, including the Linux operating system, web server Apache, search engine Apache Solr and…
NEWSCreated: 23/12/2015Updated Date: 23/12/2015