In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look three governments turning to open source, open sourcing driverless car safety practices, a school district developing an open source curriculum, and more.

Three governments turn to open source

It's no secret that governments around the globe are moving to open source, both to cut costs and to better protect their data. Recently, three national governments have made significant strides into the open world.

First up, the German government announced it's shifting 300,000 employees to Nextcloud[1], the popular open source file storage and collaboration platform. The government chose Nextcloud because it was the best option to build a private cloud it can control, one that "would not allow access to data by any third party" and would comply with the GDPR[2].

Next, Israel is starting down the path to making the code crafted by government departments[3] open source. The code for the government's web portal gov.il will be the first to be released to the public, with other services being encouraged to follow suit. The Israeli government states, "the code was developed at public expense and should therefore be accessible to members of the public."

Finally, the UK's Ministry of Justice has just released an open source data analysis platform[4]. The platform, built on Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes, supports "secure environments running analytical software such as R Studio and Jupyter Lab." The tools built on the platform include a machine learning suite to analyze text and a statistical package.

Open sourcing safety practices for driverless cars

There's a lot of skepticism about their safety of driverless cars, especially in light of several highly publicized accidents. A startup called

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