Chances are, you’ve used some sort of “sharing” service or technology recently. Maybe you’ve taken an Uber ride home from the airport, or rented out a loft from Airbnb for a weekend trip. Many people are saying that the sharing economy is the way of the future. It may indeed be disruptive, but is this … Read more
This article has been published at http://www.esa.int ESA is inviting teams of students who are 16 years old and younger to join the first European Astro Pi challenge and have their experiments run on the International Space Station! Take this opportunity to learn about science and coding, just like space scientists do! Deadline to submit … Read more
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Linux, we’ve released our seventh edition of the Linux Kernel Development Report. It analyzes the work done by over 13,500 developers since the kernel’s early days, as well as more recent trends. Key findings: Over 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel … Read more
Background This Recommendation aims to support the development and implementation of digital government strategies that bring governments closer to citizens and businesses. It recognises that today’s technology is not only a strategic driver for improving public sector efficiency, but can also support effectiveness of policies and create more open, transparent, innovative, participatory and trustworthy governments. … Read more
Why is a new eGovernment Action Plan needed? The current EU eGovernment Action Plan 2011-2015 is based on the Malmö Ministerial Declaration of 2009 which sets out the objectives for public administrations to invite third parties to collaborate on the development of eGovernment services, strengthen transparency of administrative processes and involve stakeholders in public policy … Read more
The developers are the new idols of innovation, at the heart of the emergence of new technological objects (drones, 3D printers, biotechnologies, etc.) and of new uses. Often hosted in the renewed basements of enterprises, sometimes hackers, they share their time between their day job and their side project, and go beyond the standard norms … Read more
In 2016, the FSFE is celebrating 15 years of existence. What started as a small group of volunteers has grown into a European wide movement with actively supporting members in more than 20 countries. We dedicate this birthday to our community, to those who made us grow strong in the past 15 years – with … Read more
Andrew Updegrove is a co-founder and partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP and an internationally recognized expert on standard setting and open source organizations and how to form them. He has represented over 70 standard setting, promotional, and advocacy consortia and open source projects. In 2005, he received the President’s Award for Journalism … Read more
Today, the European Commission achieved the next milestone in implementing the Digital Single Market (DSM), with the publication of a Communications package consisting of the Priority ICT Standards Plan (PISP), and of Communications on Digitisation, Cloud and the eGovernment Action Plan. With these initiatives the Commission focuses on the major technologies involved in the digital transformation of economies and … Read more
Just a year or so ago, Bitcoin was weird. The digital ‘crypto-currency’ had become fairly notorious as a preferred medium of exchange for hackers, outlaws, and the most strenuous libertarians. The underlying blockchain technology—a secure, distributed database requiring no central server or owner—was earning the curiosity of radicals and visionaries who saw in it the … Read more
