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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Who did not talk about #PanamaPapers yet ? Nobody, right ?! Now since only few medias companies have access to the leak, I was wondering how important is this leak ? To what can we compare all this huge amount of data ? Let’s go for a short visit to Panama, a virtual visit obviously, […]
As debate about the sharing economy rages, with fingers pointed at Uber and Airbnb as prime examples of what isn’t sharing, a global community is working toward a better world through…actual sharing. Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization that enables millions of people to share billions of creative works through a suite of free licenses, recently released its 2016-2020 organizational strategy. The […]
Using open source has set the city of Limerick (Ireland) free to modernise its organisation. The city merged several isolated department front-desks into one modern customer centre, with the customer relations management system and other open source solutions greatly improving service levels. Not encumbered by the limitations of proprietary licences, Limerick could customise applications to […]
Author’s note: Firefox landed support for multistream and renegotiation support in Firefox 38. This article talks about how the team at Jitsi Videobridge, a WebRTC service, collaborated with the Firefox WebRTC team to get Jitsi’s multi-party video conferencing working well in Firefox. In the process, several issues were identified and fixed on both sides of […]
A contest/editathon to be run from 1 April to 1 May 2016 in which anybody in the world can contribute, not just people in Wales. Due to people with various committments, entries are welcome throughout March too, though anything submitted before April 1 won’t count in points towards the main contest. Create and […]
In designing and researching new eGovernment services The push by the UK government to use more free and open source software for its eGovernment services is helping to get citizens more involved, says Bernard Tyers, a user experience researcher working for the UK’s Home Office. “Everyone can see how the design and research process works, […]
Last month, the European Commission officially launched the European Data Portal. The portal now hosts almost 400,000 datasets, almost twice as much as when the beta version was released last November. Here is an overview of the technical changes made since then: the Metadata Quality Assessment (MQA) has been enhanced and new graphs have been […]