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Interview: Maria Dalhage of DIGG (Sweden) on FOSS in government
DIGG is Sweden's Agency for Digital Government. Maria Dalhage is Data and open source specialist at DIGG as well as Community Manager for the National Dataportal. OSOR (Ciarán O'Riordan): DIGG…
NEWSCreated: 24/01/2023Updated Date: 31/01/2023
The Öppna Skoltplatformen turned civic tech into reality
In the Swedish capital Stockholm, IT savvy parents banded together to make a better version of the official app for school administration. The project of volunteers, completely developed in open…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2022Updated Date: 23/02/2022
The analysis pipeline Sarek is designed to assist Swedish scientists in germline or somatic sequencing
The National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) in Sweden has developed a pipeline to analyse genome data and sequencing. The umbrella organisation, SciLifeLab, has an open source policy. They intend to…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2021Updated Date: 11/08/2021
Open data by default, open source when needed in Norwegian and Swedish national museums
Openess and digitalisation provide museums with new experiences in reaching a new audience. In Norway and Sweden, they are using a reusing open source in the daily production. Access to the museums’…
NEWSCreated: 03/06/2021Updated Date: 04/06/2021
Transcoder Encore provides SVT with speed and flexibility
Swedish national public television broadcaster SVT has committed in 2018 to increase working with open source. Having released a number of own developments over the last years, SVT is now publishing…
NEWSCreated: 25/05/2021Updated Date: 25/05/2021
Library management system with global Open Source community
There are many benefit in using the libray system Koha. It is flexibility, modularity, and on an Open Source licens. Koha is used world wide and everyone can particite in its development regardless of…
NEWSCreated: 24/02/2021Updated Date: 08/05/2021
Open source library services platform
FOLIO is an open source library services platform (LSP) providing core functionalities for library management systems and extensible features that help libraries to meet their users’ evolving needs…
NEWSCreated: 21/07/2020Updated Date: 21/07/2020
GIS video tutorial attracts municipalities from across Europe
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
Sweden’s digitalisation hub adopts open source policy
DIGG, Sweden’s newly created public sector digitalisation hub, has adopted a policy for its use of open source. “We want to be open and accessible, and make it easy for partners to benefit from the…
NEWSCreated: 09/07/2019Updated Date: 09/07/2019
Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia join EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
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
Swedish procurement study: web-based office tools not GDPR compliant
It is currently impossible for Sweden’s public sector to purchase web-based office services (word processing, email and text/video chat) that comply with the European General Data Protection…
NEWSCreated: 26/02/2019Updated Date: 29/04/2019
Sweden: For confidentiality, don’t use foreign clouds
Public services in Sweden should not use non-Swedish cloud services to handle confidential information, government lawyers say. Sweden’s national procurement services agree, and are calling on the…
NEWSCreated: 26/11/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019