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Open data by default, open source when needed in Norwegian and Swedish national museums
Openess and digitalisation provide museums with new experiences in reaching a new audience. In Norway and Sweden, they are using a reusing open source in the daily production. Access to the museums’…
NEWSCreated: 03/06/2021Updated Date: 04/06/2021
On average 3.500 Norwegians seek to improve local environment every year through FiksGataMi
Cases about graffiti and holes in the road are right now sitting on the correct desk, in the correct administration, in the correct municipality because of FiksGataMi. FiksGataMi is the Nowegian…
NEWSCreated: 18/11/2020Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Norway’s new health archive is being built on open source
The new Norwegian Health Archives (Norsk helsearkiv, NHA) is being built using open source software, including operating system Linux, relational database management system MariaDB, search engine…
NEWSCreated: 08/03/2019Updated Date: 05/04/2019
Norway register shares dataset tools as open source
Norway’ Brønnøysundregistrene (Brønnøysund Register Centre), the government agency managing many of the country’s public registers and digital information exchange systems, is developing a semantic…
NEWSCreated: 22/06/2017Updated Date: 22/06/2017
Two tender announcements: lock-in vs. moving freely
Using open source software and avoiding proprietary products is the only way to structurally prevent vendor lock-in. This principle has once again become clear from two procurement announcements…
NEWSCreated: 19/04/2017Updated Date: 19/04/2017
EC study: open source an important enabler for public sector collaboration
Open source software provides an easy and affordable way to improve existing public services. According to the EC report 'Analysis of the Value of New Generation of eGovernment Services and How Can…
NEWSCreated: 23/12/2016Updated Date: 23/12/2016
European colleges share SMEs open source training
Tertiary education institutes (hochschule and university college) and ICT training specialists from across Europe are creating a course to train students to help small and medium-sized enterprises…
NEWSCreated: 15/06/2016Updated Date: 15/06/2016
Norway county shares emergency response system
Developed by Danish and Lithuanian open source specialists Norway’s Akerhus county is sharing its early warning and crises management system. The solution is published using the Mozilla open source…
NEWSCreated: 15/12/2015Updated Date: 15/12/2015
Twitter hints at unblocking Politwoops accounts
Politwoops, the site that saved and republished tweets first published and later deleted by politicians, may get back its access to the Twitter API. After disabling Politwoops' developer accounts this…
NEWSCreated: 26/10/2015Updated Date: 26/10/2015
Norway’s Frikomport readied to switch to Moodle
Friprogforeningen foundation to offer Knowledge Management Platform to municipalities and universities Norway’s national open source foundation Friprogforeningen will soon be switching its…
NEWSCreated: 11/09/2015Updated Date: 11/09/2015
Electronic Public Records in Norway
About OEP Electronic Public Records (OEP) is a collaborative tool which central government agencies use to publicise their public records online. Public record data is stored in a searchable database…
NEWSCreated: 14/07/2015Updated Date: 14/07/2015
Healthcare trade group to validate open source solutions
The Dutch Association of Research Quality Assurance, a trade group representing about 600 health care institutions and suppliers, is to assist in validating open source software solutions for use in…
NEWSCreated: 18/06/2015Updated Date: 18/06/2015