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A new open source project aims to help Ukrainians fleeing the country by providing accommodation assistance across Europe.
Acquired by Airbnb.org, the platform UASupport provides an interactive map to help volunteers and NGOs offer housing aid to Ukrainians refugees and asylum seekers. Following the war in Ukraine, the…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022
Hungarian developers launched a website that provides Ukrainian asylum seekers with useful information to facilitate the border crossing into Hungary.
By providing essential information on a large array of topics, ranging from medical and legal aid to accommodation, education and pets crossing, this initiative aims to support Ukrainians entering…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022
The Digital Public Goods Alliance Announces DPG Charter
As OSOR has reported on earlier, the United Nations has endorsed the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), which is cofounded by Norway, Sierra Leone, the Indian think tank iSPIRT and the United…
NEWSCreated: 11/04/2022The Open Source Kohesio Platform is Meant to Increase Transparency and Fight Disinformation Related to EU Funding
On 17 March the European Commission launched Kohesio—an open source-based platform giving users access to a transparent and searchable database that provides detailed information about EU funded…
NEWSCreated: 05/04/2022From Open Software to Open Culture: Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nation mandate
The United Nations organised an event “From Open Software to Open Culture Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nation mandate” on 23 September as a Side Event at General…
NEWSCreated: 18/10/2021The French public administration is opening up public data, algorithms and source codes.
The French public administration outlined the governmental programme for open source, open data and public algorithms. On 27 September, the French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Amélie…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2021The 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: 11/08/2021Caritas Deutschland has turned to open source for its online counselling platform.
The registered charity German Caritas Association switched to open source for its platform dedicated to the provision of online counselling services. In doing this, it calls for a growing involvement…
NEWSCreated: 16/07/2021Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) principles are at the heart of CHAOSS Initiative, a Linux Foundation open source project.
CHAOSS launched the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, which collaborates with public and private organisations to build out diversity-related international standards for open source…
NEWSCreated: 16/06/2021The Cloud Native Computing Foundation launched the Inclusive Naming Initiative for an inclusive programming language.
The Inclusive Naming Initiative aims to help create international standards for the replacement of non-inclusive and harmful IT language with neutral terms, and share them to both industry and public…
NEWSCreated: 11/06/2021Russian observers test election monitoring app
Ethereum-based software will become publicly available early next year National Public Monitoring (NOM), a Russian independent association of public observers, has been testing a monitoring tool for…
NEWSCreated: 28/11/2018OSS package Erikus used to inventory Ischia earthquake damage
The municipalities of Casamicciola Terme, Forio and Lacco Almeno have been using the Erikus software application to take stock of the damage caused by the earthquake that occurred this summer on the…
NEWSCreated: 04/10/2017