Metamorphosis is marking the Safer Internet Day by reminding the citizens about the fundamental principles and scientific results, holding a public lecture and participating in public debates.
Commissioner Kroes on net neutralityOn 14 January 2010, Neelie Kroes, the former Competition commissioner, had her interview in front of the Internal Market and Industries committees of the European Parliament (EP) as designated for the... ЕДРИ | 4.2.2010 |
Italy wants a licence for uploading videos on the InternetThe Italian Government intends to introduce a new decree that would require people who upload videos onto the Internet to get authorization from the Communications Ministry just like television broadc... ЕДРИ | 1.2.2010 |
OSCE asks Turkey to change the laws allowing Internet blockingOSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Media Freedom representative Miklos Haraszti asked the Turkish Government on 18 January to change their Internet law in order to observe OSCE... ЕДРИ | 29.1.2010 |
Обележан Европскиот ден на заштита на личните податоциНа 28-ми јануари, во периодот од 10 до 14 часот, граѓаните на Република Македонија имаа можност да се информираат за прашања од областа на приватноста во ЕУ Инфоцентарот. Настанот го организираше и сп... Македонија | 28.1.2010 |
The Public Domain ManifestoA new public manifest called the Public Domain Manifesto was launched on 25 January 2010, as a document developed within COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, during th... ЕДРИ | 28.1.2010 |
An Irish law for a DNA DatabaseThe Irish Government has announced that it will publish legislation this week to set up a national DNA database. ЕДРИ | 26.1.2010 |
Video meetingThe first video meeting between the pupils from the primary schools “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” - Veles and “St. Jovan” – Livereaux, Lower Normandy, France took place on January 15, 2010. Македонија | 20.1.2010 |
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| Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:08 |
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The number of schools in the European Union using open source on the desktop, remains low. However, a few more are considering it, three recent examples show. In other countries, like Russia and Turkey, educational institutes are far quicker to embrace this type of software.
According to a news report on the web site of the German daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Marcus Alig, a student at the Ballenstedter Gymnasiums in the German city of Ballenstedt has estimated his and neighbouring school can save thousands of euro if they would only switch from proprietary software to using open source applications. Source: Open Source Observatory "Europe's schools remain shy about open source" November 23, 2008 |