Children with visual impairments are left out of playing computer games with seeing children. Through Open Source software this issue has been addressed with audio based games that improves the…
NEWSCreated: 21/04/2021Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Reaching its third year of implementation, the Contest gathers universities, research centres, NGOs, regional and local governments from all Greek regions. Organised by the Open Technologies Alliance…
NEWSCreated: 05/03/2021Updated Date: 05/03/2021
The Greek government’s main website (gov.gr) is run using mainly open source software frameworks, say IT project managers involved in the overhaul of the central gov.gr web portal in March this year…
NEWSCreated: 30/10/2020Updated Date: 30/10/2020
The RECAP project aims to develop an improved remote monitoring of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) obligations and to supplement the in-field inspections procedures, reducing the compliance costs…
NEWSCreated: 23/09/2019Updated Date: 24/09/2019
Universities and teachers across Greece are encouraging the country’s young schoolchildren to experiment with open source software and hardware. The Panhellenic Open Robotics Competition also…
NEWSCreated: 24/01/2019Updated Date: 05/04/2019
Public administrations across Greece are welcome to reuse the identity-management software solution built by the city of Heraklion. In 2017 the city began combining OpenLDAP for directory services and…
NEWSCreated: 19/12/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
This summer, computer science students in Greece contributed code that could help the Greek government automate the process of keeping the country’s laws up to date. The 3GM project is one of ten…
NEWSCreated: 29/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
The use of open source technology is a core part of a project to document Greek government procedures. The project, involving 200 public administration staff and university researchers, is creating or…
NEWSCreated: 20/12/2016Updated Date: 20/12/2016
Future funding of Epoptes by Greece is uncertain It’s a textbook example of public administration software reuse. The city of Valencia (Spain) is one of the many users of Epoptes, software for…
NEWSCreated: 03/08/2016Updated Date: 03/08/2016
A workshop organised by Open Knowledge Greece on May 30 allowed a group a citizens to formulate more than 32 proposals which could be incorporated in the next OGP Action Plan of Greece. This workshop…
NEWSCreated: 10/06/2016Updated Date: 10/06/2016
The Greek government has initiated a pilot to evaluate a process of public consultation in the country. This action is part of the government’s strategy to enhance transparency and citizen…
NEWSCreated: 23/03/2016Updated Date: 23/03/2016
The Greek Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction last week concluded a public consultation on the draft law 'Transparency, Meritocracy and Effectiveness of Public Administration'…
NEWSCreated: 16/12/2015Updated Date: 16/12/2015