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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…
EducationFree and open source softwareICT+2 topics
Middle schools in Brittany turned to open source software for their file system management.
The Ille-et-Vilaine department in France deployed an open source software for file management to 21 middle schools, accounting for 12,000 users between teachers and students. In December 2021, the…
EducationDemography and populationFree and open source software in Public Administrations+2 topics
Four Finnish cities collaborate to develop, manage and maintain an open source ERP system for early childhood education.
Deployed firstly by the city of Espoo, the open source software eVaka reached its second year of operation in providing citizens with information and functionalities on kindergartens and early…
EducationeHealthFree and open source software+6 topics
The French public administration is opening up public data, algorithms and source codes.
The French public administration outlined the governmental programme for open source, open data and public algorithms. On 27 September, the French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Amélie…
EducationFree and open source software
The series Games for the Blind is developed in the community of users
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…
CultureEducationFree and open source software+1 topics
Several federal states in Germany are speeding up the digitalisation of the education system by using UCS@School.
The open source software product UCS@School is widely applied in the response to the need of German schools to cope with the COVID-19 crisis by providing educational institutions with a large array of…
As part of the broader Digital Success Programme, Hungary is implementing the Digital Education Strategy to enhance digital skills at all levels of the national education system.
The Digital Education Strategy is one of the milestones of the Hungarian Digital Success Programme and Open Source represents a fundamental part of it. Digital education is becoming more and more…
OpenUK Organises 10-lesson Course and Competition for Young People
For the second year in a row, OpenUK will organise its Kids Camp in July 2021. This year's camp includes a 10-lesson course and accompanying digital magazines, just like in 2020. Last year, OpenUK…
The City of Paris's Lutece Platform Expands in the United States
Lutece is a free and modular open source platform developed and championed by the City of Paris. It is built to let city governments share, re-use and adapt digital services created by other cities…
CultureEducationEnvironment+2 topics
Greece welcomes the third round of the Panhellenic Competition of Open Technologies in Education
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…
This Open Source edTech runs without internet
The offline-first Kolibri project - made by the NGO Learning Equality - shows that internet is not necessary for all education technology. Although Kolibri has a vast online community for their Open…
More collaboration and clarity in Open Science, study says
The latest report on the state of Open Source Software in higher education and research was published at the end of January. The report is a part of the support that DINUM, the French interministerial…
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