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A conversation with Petteri Kivimäki on X-Road®
Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), agreed to be interviewed on the history and the impact of X-Road®, the open source data exchange layer solution…
NEWSCreated: 09/08/2021
German private contract tracing app becomes open source after being procured by regional governments
One of the positive developments of COVID-19 was a readjustment toward the expectation that government developed apps using sensitive data should be made available as open source. The OSOR has…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2021
OSOR Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector
The OSOR team is thrilled to announce that the Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector have been published! The Guidelines offer practical tips for civil servants at…
NEWSCreated: 16/11/2020
The European Commission OSPO in context
On October 21, the European Commission approved its newest iteration of its Open source software strategy for 2020-2023. The first concrete action by the European Commission was to set up an Open…
NEWSCreated: 13/11/2020
European TSO's go open source in building the smart electricity grid
RTE and TenneT, the two largest European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs), will discuss their digitalisation and open source strategies in a webinar on 8 August 2019. Both operators…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2019
Spanish Air Force fights obsolescence and insecurity through open source
Keeping the ICT systems and infrastructures of the Spanish Air Force secure is like fighting a many-headed dragon. So Col. Fernando Acero Martin, Director of Cyber Defence at the Spanish Air Force…
NEWSCreated: 22/07/2019
City of Nijmegen reinvigorates OSS policy, forcing interoperability
Nijmegen, the oldest and 10th largest city of the Netherlands, is reinvigorating its open source policy. Last month, the City Council unanimously adopted the resolution 'Nijmegen digitally independent…
NEWSCreated: 20/02/2019
Russian 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: 28/11/2018
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: 23/11/2018
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: 11/10/2018
Building smart cities on the open-source Things Network
LoRa, a low-power, long-range radio technology for networks on a municipal scale, provides a low-cost infrastructure on which municipalities can build a plethora of Internet-of-Things (IoT)…
NEWSCreated: 01/10/2018
Building microprocessor architectures on open-source hardware and software
It has been five years since ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Bologna in Italy started their joint PULP research project on the energy efficiency of microprocessor architectures. The…
NEWSCreated: 20/08/2018