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EU: International team developing open source hospital information system — published on Aug 31, 2010

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An international team of software developers specialising in medical systems is working on a hospital information system. Earlier this month on the OSOR Forge, the project began soliciting others to join the team. "If you are willing to participate in this great community, there are plenty of things to be done, from translation, quality control, adding new functionality to localization."

Students line up for new free software master at open universities — published on Nov 24, 2009

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Two of Europe's open universities, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain and Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, are about to start the first courses of what will become a Master programme on free and open source software and open standards, The Free Technology Academy (FTA). The program could prove popular, the number of early registrations shows.

'Using free software improves relation between state and society' — published on Sep 08, 2009

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"There is a new relationship developing between the state and its citizens. Free software is rejuvenating these social relations this century", said the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in his opening speech of the second edition of the International Free Software and Electronic Government (Consegi) in the capital, Brasília on 26 August.

ES: Cenatic wants open source study to increase uptake — published on Jun 18, 2009

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Spain's national resource centre on open source, Cenatic, is to analyse the worldwide use and policy development of this type of software. The organisation hopes the inventory will increase international cooperation.

Vietnam to move all public administrations to open source — published on Jan 14, 2009

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All public administrations in Vietnam are to migrate their IT systems to open source. The ministry also wants PC sellers to stop selling PCs with pirated software, asking them to supply these computers with open source instead.

State IT organisations defy ISO's approval for OOXML — published on Sep 02, 2008

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State IT organisations from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Paraguay are questioning the relevance of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), news agency Reuters reports.

Quebec government sued for ignoring Open Source alternatives — published on Sep 02, 2008

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Facil, an Open Source organisation in the Canadian province of Quebec, is suing the government for failing to consider Open Source alternatives when tendering software products.

Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications — published on May 30, 2008

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The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open Source reference guide before launching new IT projects.

Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications — published on May 27, 2008

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The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open Source reference guide before launching new IT projects.

Russian postal service switches to Open Source desktop — published on May 15, 2008

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The Russian postal service is switching to an Open Source desktop, based on GNU/Linux, reports Cnews, an IT news site. Cost cuttings are the main reason for the migration.

Moscow regional government to migrate to Open Source desktop — published on May 13, 2008

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The Moscow regional administration will test usefulness of an Open Source desktop by migrating several hundreds of desktop PCs to Mandriva GNU/Linux and by installing OpenOffice on a thousand others.

South Africa makes ODF government standard — published on Oct 25, 2007

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European governments developing policies on electronic document formats, can now also take South Africa as an example. The country this week included Open Document Format (ODF) in its Minimum Information Interoperability Standards (MIOS).

Japan to increase involvement in Open Source development — published on Oct 04, 2007

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The Information Technology Promotion Agency, a Japanese government research institute, is working with the Linux Foundation to accelerate Japan's adoption of GNU/Linux and other Open Source applications. The joint-venture could serve as an example for similar European institutes.

Russia to install GNU/Linux in every school — published on Sep 25, 2007

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Russia is going to install GNU/Linux in all schools in the country. This was announced by Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication, at a press conference on 14 September.

Venezuela: Government migration to Open Source makes experts scarce — published on Jan 29, 2007

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The Venezuelan government is expected to extend its deadline for a mass migration of government institutes to Open Source as the country faces a scarcity of experts. The South American country started ditching proprietary IT in 2005 when it passed "Directive 3.390", a law that requires the entire government to migrate to open source before December 2007. Local consultants now expect this year's deadline to be extended to the end of 2008.