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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
Ten Member States have joined the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI), built on TESTA.
The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) is the data communication network service lying at the digital core of the EU4Health Programme, and interoperability is the…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2022All EU Member States adopted the Strasbourg Declaration outlining the coordination strategy for public administrations.
The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2022The French Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the creation of a task force on digital commons.
France and other sixteen Member States will work on a voluntary basis to create a European hub for digital commons as well as identify new financial and human resources to allocate to European open…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2022The European Commission launched Interoperable Europe, the new policy framework for interoperability in the EU.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, Interoperable Europe builds on ISA2 and puts open cooperation with the Member States at its heart. On 21 November, the European Commission announced the launch…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022ECDC developed epitweetr to find public health signals in the Twitter noise
The value and need for epidemiological threat detection requires little argument in 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic still has a profound impact on our lives and will likely continue to do so for quite…
NEWSCreated: 01/06/2021The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) published the first results of the X-Road Emissions Calculator Project.
In collaboration with Gofore Plc and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NIIS assessed the environmental footprint of the X-Road ecosystem solution, in order to reduce its CO2 emissions and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2021The DigitALL Public conference dedicated a full session to the role of open source in the public sector.
By addressing the challenges and opportunities of using open source in the public domain, the session focused on the benefits that public administration could gain from open source and drew ideas to…
NEWSCreated: 04/05/2021As 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: 12/03/2021X-Road lands in Mexico
Following the widespread success of the open-source software and ecosystem solution X-Road®, the Mexican state of Quintana Roo kicked off “Xacbé”, a new project which will be built on top of the…
NEWSCreated: 16/02/2021OSPO Series: How governments want to use OSPOs to transform themselves
OSPOs (Open Source Programme Offices) are becoming the norm in private sector companies working with software and the public sector is catching up. Why do governments create OSPOs now and what are…
NEWSCreated: 03/02/2021