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Developers from all over the world are collaborating to facilitate cross-border movements of Ukrainians.
Based on open technologies, this initiative aims to support the people in Ukraine by providing timely information on border crossings, missile alerts, missing person reporting, accommodation and…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2022
Interactive map on environmental justice in the United States
Back in February, the White House published a beta version of an open source environmental justice tool that features an interactive map of communities in the United States and indicators on climate…
NEWSCreated: 28/04/2022
Middle schools in Brittany turned to open source software for their file system management.
The Ille-et-Vilaine department in France deployed an open source software for file management to 21 middle schools, accounting for 12,000 users between teachers and students. In December 2021, the…
NEWSCreated: 21/01/2022Open 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: 06/08/2021Several federal states in Germany are speeding up the digitalisation of the education system by using UCS@School.
The open source software product UCS@School is widely applied in the response to the need of German schools to cope with the COVID-19 crisis by providing educational institutions with a large array of…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2021As part of the broader Digital Success Programme, Hungary is implementing the Digital Education Strategy to enhance digital skills at all levels of the national education system.
The Digital Education Strategy is one of the milestones of the Hungarian Digital Success Programme and Open Source represents a fundamental part of it. Digital education is becoming more and more…
NEWSCreated: 12/03/2021Greece welcomes the third round of the Panhellenic Competition of Open Technologies in Education
Reaching its third year of implementation, the Contest gathers universities, research centres, NGOs, regional and local governments from all Greek regions. Organised by the Open Technologies Alliance…
NEWSCreated: 05/03/2021More collaboration and clarity in Open Science, study says
The latest report on the state of Open Source Software in higher education and research was published at the end of January. The report is a part of the support that DINUM, the French interministerial…
NEWSCreated: 03/03/2021OSPO Series: What can governmental OSPOs learn from the private sector ones?
The construct of an Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) was born in the private sector where it has been used to support organisations in achieving their goals for years by streamlining their software…
NEWSCreated: 09/02/2021Commission provides data aggregation solution for Smart Cities to public administrations
The city is a vast and complex ecosystem. Digital transformation lifts this ecosystem into the virtual domain. Yet, without structure, this vast amount of data is useless. The European Commission’s…
NEWSCreated: 15/01/2021AS4 standard for secure exchanges of data and documents
Launched in 2014, eDelivery is an open and reusable set of specifications and standards providing a framework for the secure machine-to-machine (M2M) exchange of documents and data via a backend…
NEWSCreated: 24/09/2020The French Ministry of the Interior opts for an open source software, Nextcloud
Nextcloud announced that its open source solution will now power the French Ministry of Interior, which favours a European open source alternative for its cloud needs instead of a large American…
NEWSCreated: 03/09/2019