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 open source community mobilitated to contribute, each one in their own way. In the case of Kemal Erdem, co-founder and CTO at zhiva.ai and in general a software engineer and consultant specialising in Javascript applications, the contribution is embodied in UASupport, a portal aimed to help Ukrainians asylum seekers fleeing the country. Specifically, it provides Ukranians with an interactive map…

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 on the national open data program. Feedback received included creating a position dedicated to reuse of government data in each institution, a closer collaboration between the responsible ministries, proper transposition of the European open data directives, increased interoperability and adding new standards to the list of open standards. Since then, many of these issues were addressed by the…