OFE is glad to announce a new supporter, Nextcloud, a German company offering the industry-leading, on-premises content collaboration platform. It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Nextcloud is joining OpenForum Europe as a supporter. Nextcloud is right in the middle of…

This story was originally published in the article for the Open Source Observatory (OSOR), a European Commission’s project aiming at providing trustworthy FOSS expertise and information. OFE is a regular contributor to…

2021 has been an important year for OFE, but also digital policy in general. Open technologies have been recognized at the highest level as an important tool to meet the digital and societal challenges we face. Open technologies have played an important role in our response to the covid pandemic, we have seen…

We are glad to provide the recording of the OpenForum Academy (OFA) symposium The symposium offered the opportunity for critical and scholarly discourse on the European Commission study on “The impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and…

OFE is delighted to announce a number of leadership changes that will support the organisation in the ambition to advance openness in digital and to establish OFE as a prominent stakeholder in the digital policy space. As of 16…

This story was originally published in the article for the Open Source Observatory (OSOR), a European Commission’s project aiming at providing trustworthy FOSS expertise and information. OFE is a regular contributor to the Observatory. Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at…

This story was originally published in the article for the Open Source Observatory (OSOR), a European Commission’s project aiming at providing trustworthy FOSS expertise and information. OFE is a regular contributor to the Observatory. By providing governments with…

The OFE Open Source Policy Series 2021 offered deep-dives into the most policy-relevant topics in the area of open source, open technologies and the most pressing digital policy challenges facing Europe. Following the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2021, where high-level policy makers such as European…

Open source gained increasing interest on the political level of digital policy discussions in recent months. Recently, the European Commission set up an Open Source Programme Office and expressed…

Recently, the OFE team was interviewed for a report on the role of Open Source Software during the Covid-19 crisis. In our conversation about good examples of collaboration between the public sector and the vast Open Source…

This story was originally published in the article for the Open Source Observatory (OSOR), a European Commission’s project aiming at providing trustworthy FOSS expertise and information. OFE is a regular contributor to the Observatory. Study after study has proven that women are underrepresented in…

After the publication of the Guidelines on Technical Specifications for Digital Green Certificates (DGC), it is now up to the Member States to deliver the open source reference implementations for the DGC software at a national level. This story was originally published in the article…