An open school platform

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 source, was first rejected, but is now expanding...

Open source in U.S. cyber defence

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 Sherman released internally (and published two days...

Location Interoperability in Europe - How are we doing?

What's new? Results are now available for the 

Proposal for a European Interoperability Framework for Smart Cities and Communities (EIF4SCC)

The European Commission actively supports local administrations and other actors with challenges related with 

EUPL for French Administrations

It may look strange and even quite extraordinary, but until today (December 3, 2021) the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was not yet considered as a “Legal Licence” for use by administrations in France. This omission is now repaired by a...

'Open standards and ITIL lead…

Where public administrations base their IT strategy on open standards and on aligning their IT services with business needs, the large-scale use of open source software solutions will emerge, according to Major (Commandant) Stéphane Dumond of...

The use of open source cloud in education: Cases of HPI Schul-Cloud and Sciebo in Germany

Introduction Open education, the use of open data, and open research are subjects that have been propelled into the spotlight by the COVID-19 crisis and the sudden rise of remote education. In schools, universities and research centres, the use...

New Interoperability benefits survey

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Open source, open data and public algorithms in France

The French public administration outlined the governmental programme for open source, open data and public algorithms.  

Diversification of Legislation Editing Open Software (LEOS) Using Software Agents - Transforming Parliamentary Control of the Hellenic Parliament into Big Open Legal Data

Find out more about the use of LEOS and Big Open Legal Data in public administrations: The case of the Hellenic Parliament.  You can consult the article here or download it below. 

Digital-ready legislation in Denmark

Since 2018 it has been required that new legislation presented before the Danish parliament is digital-ready. This means shaping the rules in compliance with principles encouraging the use of data, digital solutions and new technologies,...

National working group on open source in Denmark

June 8th it was decided by the Committee on Architecture and Standards under the Danish Agency for Digitisation to create a joint guide on the use of open source in the Danish public sector. The project and the first version of the guide will be...

Open source in international cooperation

Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), agreed to be interviewed on the history and the impact of X-Road®, the open source data exchange layer solution.  

Open data in Poland

The Polish Parliament unanimously voted for the law transposing the directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information on 23 July. 

German health system adopts Matrix

Gematik, the provider of digital solutions for the German health care system has chosen the open source Matrix protocol to underpin Germany’s new instant communication platform, which will be used by over 150.000 organisations, such as general...

French report on digital sovereignty

In July 2020 the French National Assembly convened a special mission on building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty. The mission has just published its first report last month with a set of recommendations, among which it...

Open source software supported in the French open science policy

The French Ministry of Research shared its Second National Plan for Open Science for the years 2021-2024 on 6 July. The Plan foresees several initiatives aimed at increasing the reach of open science principles, and, for the first time, includes...

Report: Data-driven method for unsupervised electricity consumption characterisation at district level and beyond

Final report of the

Open Source Observatory (OSOR)