Metamorphosis Foundation

On 8 October 2009 the European Commission (EC) repeated its call to all EU member states to increase their efforts in dealing with online privacy threats to the public, such as spam, spyware and malware, based on findings from a study required by the Commission.

The Western Balkan countries could be among the world's first where citizens can use mobile devices to access electronic government services, reports Cordis, the European Union's information service on science, research and development.

Already nine out of Icelands 35 upper-secondary schools have expressed interest to participate in Iceland's project on open source in education.

The Fifth International Conference “e-Society.Mk 2009” will take place in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, December 2-3, 2009 (Tuesday & Wednesday).

The first international Open Access Week for Open Access to research, will take place October 19 – 23, 2009. ...

mySociety has teamed up with the Open Society Institute (OSI) to help people in Central and Eastern Europe build transparency and democracy websites suited to the needs and realities of their countries.

The Fifth International Conference “e-Society.Mk 2009” will take place in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, December 2-3, 2009 (Tuesday & Wednesday).

Almost the entire public sector, 96 percent, is using open source, says a French market survey. The most used applications are database management systems and content management systems.

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as seven - and to sell that information.Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats...

The European Commission has adopted Guidelines on the application of EC Treaty state aid rules to the public funding of broadband networks.

In the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia, 190,500 students and teachers will start using open source laptops in January, Spanish newspapers reported earlier this month.

After five years and more than $700m of investment, Facebook is now 'cashflow positive' thanks to its 300m users worldwide.