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From Open Software to Open Culture

Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nations mandate Side Event at General Assembly High Level Week to Explore Potential of Open Source Technologies for the United Nations By definition, open source development is collaborative, inclusive and revolutionary—and open software has become ubiquitous. Whenever we are online, we are benefiting from open software. … Read more

1st Transfer Webinar – Digital Tools in Social Innovation: Lessons from +Resilient Project

July 5th, 2021, 11:00 – 13:00 (CET) The webinar will be the occasion to present and discuss the activities carried out so far in the context of +Resilient Project. Many of the activities (pilot actions, study visits, research) entailed the use and development of digital tools. These activities will give some inputs to discuss the … Read more

ethemisID: European citizens’ access to Hellenic Administrative Justice e-Services : 28/06/2021 @11:00

The Hellenic Council of State, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, the Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS) and Uni Systems kindly invite you to the online presentation of the European project ethemisID. ethemisID has been implemented to extend the possibility of direct and easy access to … Read more

GFOSS participates in GSOC 2021 with 10 open source projects

On May 17, 2021, Google announced the open-source projects that will participate in Google Summer Of Code 2021. GFOSS participates this year with 10 open source projects, and students who will successfully complete the program will be rewarded with stipends for their contributions. GSoC offers students from around the world the opportunity to contribute to … Read more

+Resilient Newsletter 4

+RESILIENT puts together a 4-helix partnership of 8 MED countries to tackle the need for innovation conducive to increased socially-responsive competitiveness of SMEs & stimulate new jobs, especially for companies operating in the social economy. It aims to kickstart a process of policy change at regional level in the involved areas resulting in the integration … Read more

Sarantaporo.gr Community Network: Tending to Our Communities’ Needs with Care and Flexibility

At the beginning of May 2020, the Sarantaporo.gr community network team was approached by the Mayor of Elassona, a municipality in the Thessaly region in central Greece. He was asking for help with a very common problem that villages in our municipality face: lack of access to Internet connectivity. “Sykea” or “Sykia” is an isolated … Read more