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: 04/05/2021Updated Date: 04/05/2021
An online training course on gvSIG - an open source geographic information system (GIS) - continues to attract new users from Europe and across the globe. Over the past two years the gvSIG Association…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020Updated Date: 24/04/2020
This month the Linux Foundation launched the CHIPS Alliance, which will be home to open source projects related to microprocessors and Systems on a Chip (SoCs). All the early backers — Esperanto…
NEWSCreated: 20/03/2019Updated Date: 03/04/2019
CareQueue, an open source project that presents public data on preschools, won last week’s Open Data Hackathon 2018 in Riga (Latvia). The software plots preschools on a map, showing space availability…
NEWSCreated: 04/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
The administration of Ventspils, Latvia’s sixth largest city, is an avid user of free and open source software. The main benefits: cost and resource optimisation. In recent years, the city has…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2017Updated Date: 23/02/2017
The Latvian National Archives have won the “Most Open Organisation” award for their extensive use of free and open source software for their online audiovisual archive. The system combines (Red Hat)…
NEWSCreated: 14/02/2017Updated Date: 14/02/2017
On Thursday 2 February, the Latvian Open Technology Association (LATA) will announce its ‘Most Open Institution’ award. One of the potential winners is the Latvian National Archive, which was…
NEWSCreated: 31/01/2017Updated Date: 31/01/2017
The smart city activities of Riga and the intelligent transport systems devised by Latvia’s state road department are two of the many topics in next week’s “Open Technologies and Smart Solutions”…
NEWSCreated: 22/01/2016Updated Date: 22/01/2016
The Children's Hospital in Riga, Latvia, is using the Ubuntu Linux distribution for an increasing number of tasks. About half of the hospital's 600 workstations are now running Ubuntu, says Juris…
NEWSCreated: 26/02/2014Updated Date: 26/02/2014
Public administrations in Latvia should switch to using free and open source solutions, instead of unlicensed software, argues Leo Trukšāns, a lecturer at University of Latvia, in an open letter on…
NEWSCreated: 02/12/2013Updated Date: 02/12/2013
At the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency in Riga, all parts of the organisations use open source. Linux, to begin with, provides a stable operating system for its databases, both proprietary and…
NEWSCreated: 26/03/2013Updated Date: 26/03/2013
Latvia's public administrations procuring IT solutions need to formulate bids that allow real competition, that do not hinder bidders from suggesting open source solutions and must include vendor…
NEWSCreated: 27/08/2012Updated Date: 27/08/2012