GDELT monitors the world’s news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day. Global Reach GDELT monitors print, broadcast, and web news media in over 100 languages from across every country in the world to keep continually updated on … Read more
Open Education Europa has compiled and is releasing today as open data the analytical list of European Repositories of Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Education Europa: The European Hub for Innovation in Education from Open Education Europa The Open Education Europa portal: a key player to improve visibility of high-quality European OER The main goal of … Read more
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
From scientific research to lawmaking, open access enables participation Open access is the practice of making research available online, for free, ideally under licenses that permit widespread dissemination. This year’s theme for Open Access Week is “open for collaboration,” and that theme hits on what’s really exciting about open access. Open access—both in academia and … Read more
France’s policies on open source and open data are helping to create a market for French ICT service providers, says Didier Tranchier, Professor of Innovation Management at Institut Mines-Telecom, a research institute. Professor Tranchier, who coaches and invests in high tech companies, spoke at the Mindtrek OpenMind conference in Tampere (Finland) in September. “Open data, … Read more
The vast majority of EU officials who publish documents online are oblivious to the EU’s open document formats policy. One year after the launch of the ‘FixMyDocuments’ campaign, advocates of open document formats conclude the policy is perceived as unimportant. “There is a huge lack of awareness”, says campaign organiser Maël Brunet. “Maintainers show little … 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
Open source code is supposed to reduce redundancy by saving developers from reinventing the wheel. To help it do a better job of that, the Linux Foundation this week announced a new OpenChain Workgroup, a new initiative that aims to standardize common practices to make open source more efficient. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit consortium … Read more
