The Collabora flavour of LibreOffice aimed at the public sector, officially rebranded GovOffice, will allow agencies to deploy the free office suite, leading to savings on Microsoft Office license fees and Collabora’s own licenses. According to an inside source, UK Government officials have been tasked with saving millions of pounds in tech spending nationwide, and … Read more
Not too long ago, free fonts were either low-quality or utilitarian, designed to substitute for common proprietary fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica. Today, however, a small but growing number of free-licensed fonts can match the best proprietary fonts. If you doubt that statement, consider the nine fonts listed below. The diagram below will give … Read more
Written by Demetrios Pogkas on 13 October 2015. Greeks went to the ballots on September 20th for a third time in 2015, following the snap election of January and the referendum of July. The result took everyone by surprise; SYRIZA, the ruling leftist-turned-social democratic party that agreed on the country’s third bailout package before calling … Read more
Environmental leaders from around the world are in Abu Dhabi this week at the Eye on Earth Summit to discuss how data collaboration can impact sustainable development. Pierre Yves Cousteau speaking at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (photo courtesy of Carmelle Terborgh) It’s getting harder to track big data around the environment, … Read more
Looking to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools, the state government today said that all schools in Kerala, both government and aided, will soon be equipped with electronics and Raspberry Pi kits. Speaking at the inauguration of an ‘Electronics@School’ project, initiated by the state IT Department, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that … Read more
There was a time when knowing how to program was for the geekiest of geeks. That’s not exactly the case today. As most entrepreneurs, freelancers and marketers will tell you, learning how to program can help you succeed. Over the past year, I’ve been learning to code. It’s helped me to become a much better entrepreneur … Read more
A couple of decades ago, if you spent every day in chat rooms with your friends, you were a nerd. Today if you do the same thing, you’re just the average Facebook user. And so it’s no surprise there’s a gold rush mentality in the learn-to-code movement. With the tech industry booming and its products … Read more
The City of Vienna was the first public agency in a German speaking country to develop an Open Government Initative and to commit itself to the concept of Open Data – an open and transparent system that makes city data available to citizens for their further use. Vienna’s first Open Data catalogue has been presented … Read more
Vint Cerf, recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet, is using social media to generate new ideas about how the Web should evolve Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the Internet, wants your help in re-thinking it for the next generation. Cerf is starting a public project to solicit ideas on how … Read more
Open-source software is especially trustworthy compared to closed-source software because you can see the source code of the program you’re running. Or can you? You probably aren’t compiling all your software from source—you’re getting packages provided by your Linux distribution. But how do you know those binary packages were actually compiled from that source … Read more
