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Developers from all over the world are collaborating to facilitate cross-border movements of Ukrainians.
Based on open technologies, this initiative aims to support the people in Ukraine by providing timely information on border crossings, missile alerts, missing person reporting, accommodation and…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2022
Diverse stakeholders convened to discuss paths to improvement
On 13 January the White House organised a meeting on improving security of open source software with actors representing governmental agencies, private sector and open source foundations…
NEWSCreated: 17/02/2022
The U.S. Department of Defence has published new guidelines for the internal use of open source for cyber defence purposes
The U.S. Department of Defence CIO urged the Department to prefer open source over proprietary solutions. On 24 January 2022, the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) Chief Information Officer John…
NEWSCreated: 16/02/2022
US GOV OPS collaboration on 5G
The Linux Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed an agreement to create the US Government Open Programmable Secure (US GOV OPS) which will accelerate innovation…
NEWSCreated: 26/04/2021
What is the value of Open Source? Preliminary results of the Commission's study
The first results of the study on the impact of Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware conducted for the European Commission were presented. It found that increasing the number of commits to…
NEWSCreated: 13/11/2020
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
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
Rotterdam Municipality and Port Authority launch BlockLab
The Municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have jointly launched a field lab for the development of blockchain-based applications. The BlockLab project is financed by these two…
NEWSCreated: 04/11/2017
Swiss university accepts Bitcoin
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule Luzern, HSLU) in Switzerland is now accepting payments in Bitcoin. Customers of the institute — including students and employees — who want…
NEWSCreated: 18/10/2017