France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school due to cloud...
In August, Philippe Latombe, a member of the French National Assembly, advised Pap Ndiaye, the minister of national education, that the free version of Microsoft Office 365, while appealing, amounts...
View ArticleLessons learnt building and maintaining National Treasury’s open budget data...
A video talk given at the recent PyCon conference in Durban about an application developed for National Treasury: We built an open data visualisation portal for National Treasury –...
View ArticleNextcloud announces it has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use,...
This announcement is noteworthy for a variety of reasons, starting with the obvious: it offers an alternative to Microsoft’s (and to a lesser degree Google’s) near monopoly when it comes to enterprise...
View ArticleOpen Source Policy Summit: Where FOSS and government meet: Sometimes it takes...
FOSDEM The Open Source Policy Summit is an annual event which attempts to explain the importance of software freedom to governments and policy makers. The Policy Summit is an annual event organized by...
View ArticleChina’s openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu...
Version 1.0 of the openKylin Linux distro for the domestic Chinese market is here – and it works pretty well in English, too. As The Reg reported last year, openKylin has been in development for some...
View ArticleSA wants to be involved in innovation, not just be consumers of it: It’s...
South Africa no longer wants to be just a consumer of hi-tech and innovative products. It wants to play an active role in technological research & development to produce such products locally....
View ArticleNo More Windows! Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux
What’s Happening: According to a recent report, the Defence Ministry of India has decided to replace Windows with an in-house developed Linux distro called ‘Maya’ on all computers that are connected...
View ArticleState of OSS in Nigeria
OSOR has just published the first version of its report on the state of open source in Nigeria. This report offers an overview of the country’s recently initiated digital government reforms....
View ArticleEstonia has published its online classroom software, Schoolaby, as free and...
Estonia has published its online classroom software, Schoolaby, as free and open source software under the EUPL licence. While this category of software attracted a lot of interest during the COVID...
View ArticleGerman state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for...
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local...
View ArticleSwitzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A...
Professor Dr. Matthias Stürmer has been a pivotal advocate for this change. With a background in digital sustainability and open source community building, Stürmer has long argued for the benefits of...
View ArticleNew UK government should embrace open source, says industry non-profit
The UK government should make better use of open source technologies in the public sector and adopt a more open approach to AI development, according to OpenUK. The non-profit group, which represents...
View ArticleKelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who stopped coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the world of software, and he’s proposing something that might stir up the open source...
View ArticleGerman Sovereign Tech Fund: Investing over €23 million in 60 open technologies
From their blog: Throughout our second year, the Sovereign Tech Fund identified and invested in even more foundational open source technologies. With nearly 500 submissions proposing over €114 million...
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