Open Source Best Practice Award

The HIV/AIDS eToolkits of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been awarded the Open Source Best Practice Award. As service provider, Infonoia had adapted its software Infonoia Publications Management to WHO's specific needs (e.g. metadata, taxonomy).

With the award, the LINUX Association and the German Fraunhofer Institut distinguish open source software for their degree of

• innovation
• access to the source code
• global relevance
• cost efficiency

CTI Technology Transfer Support

Infonoia has been granted technology transfer support by CTI, the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology.

With the aim of strengthening market-oriented innovation processes and boosting the creation of new jobs, CTI financially supports the cooperation between academic and economic organisations.

Collaborating with the IDIAP Institute, Infonoia has been benefiting from research in the area of assisted learning algorithms for document retrieval.

IDIAP plays a leading role nation-, european- and world-wide in the areas of speech processing, computer vision, information retrieval, biometric authentication, multimodal interaction and machine learning.