Open Source, Privacy, Data, Ethics, AI, etc

European Open Source Academy hosted a new webinar, tackling the role of open source and standards in creating a competitive cloud market! The webinar focused on how open source software and open standards can help address cloud vendor lock-in a...

Europe’s automotive sector is restructuring around software-defined mobility, with manufacturers, suppliers, open source organisations, and technology providers adopting shared development models to manage complexity and maintain strategic control...

Procurement shapes markets. Yet discussions on digital sovereignty often focus narrowly on public sector procurement, overlooking the shared dependencies and opportunities across Europe’s industrial and critical sectors. This session will examine ...

Europe’s ability to ensure digital sovereignty depends on viable, competitive alternatives to dominant global platforms. This session will examine how open source can underpin new ecosystems across cloud and AI — from infrastructure layers such as...

The session will present the UN Open Source Week Conference Report, offering a concise synthesis of the discussions held throughout the week. The report captures key insights, lessons learned, and best practices shared by policymakers, practition...

Delivering digital sovereignty requires more than regulation and investment — it depends on institutional capability. This session will focus on how large organisations, both public and private, are building the structures needed to adopt and sust...

The EU’s economic security agenda emphasises reducing structural dependencies in critical and emerging technologies. In the public sector, this is closely linked to interoperability, control over digital infrastructure and the ability to sustain e...

Open technologies underpin, shape and drive our digital world and frontier innovation, yet their social, economic, and strategic impacts remain weakly evidenced in public policy discussions. This lack of coordinated, empirical research limits the ...

Can Europe position itself as the global home of open source excellence — and what would it take to make that ambition real? This session will examine how Europe’s regulatory frameworks, investment instruments, and research policies interact with ...

Industrial policy is once again at the centre of Europe’s strategic agenda — in Brussels and across Member States. Yet while hardware, physical infrastructure, and data centre strategies are comparatively established, software requires a distinct ...

Rob and I do a detailed review of the - ‘two bottle of wine problem’ - NHSbuntu project which we built together back in 2017, relating how we used the great work already existing in the Linux and Open Source community to quickly put together a ful...