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Reminder: Submit your abstract for the OFA Symposium 2024 - the call for proposals ends on August 7! The second in-person edition of the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium, themed "Open Source in the Global Digital Economy," will be held at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard on November 13-14. This is a unique opportunity, especially for young researchers. The Basil Cousins Award, honoring the late OFE co-founder, will be presented to a promising academic studying the societal effects of open innovation and open technologies. The winner will receive a €5000 prize. Submit your abstract (max. 400 words) before this Wednesday. Submission details here ↘ https://lnkd.in/deBVWipF

We’re excited to introduce Maygane Janin as our new Policy Advisor. May has extensive experience advising tech companies and policymakers globally on counterterrorism, violent extremism policies, emerging technologies, and human rights. She holds MAs from King’s College London and the University of Geneva, strengthening the OFE team with her expertise at the intersection of digital policy, international security, and transparency.

The second in-person edition of the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium -- themed "Open Source in the Global Digital Economy" -- will take place at Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard on November 13-14. It's a particularly unique opportunity for young, up-and-coming researchers! In memory of late OFE co-founder Basil Cousins, we have instituted the Basil Cousins Award, which will go to a young, promising academic researching the societal effects of open innovation and open technologies. Jérémie Haese won the 2023 Basil Cousins Award with his paper “Open at the Core: Moving from Proprietary Technology to Building a Product on Open Source Software”. The winner will be selected among the participants of the Symposium and will receive a prize of €5000. We hope you will join us in celebrating the legacy of Basil Cousins and the future of open innovation and open technologies! To be considered, please make sure to submit your abstract (max. 400 words) on a topic of your choice by 7 August and join us at D^3 Institute at Harvard! 🔗 See the Call for Proposals and submission details here: https://lnkd.in/deBVWipF 💡 You can also learn more about the late Basil Cousins and his legacy here: https://lnkd.in/eYUYPtPD

Two weeks ago, OpenForum Europe took part in New York's first Open Source Week from July 8-11! Taking place around the OSPOs for Good 2024 Symposim on July 9 & 10 -- for which OFE served on the Programme Committee -- this exciting week of activity also featured a government-focused side event, an entire day of workshops after the main event, a social event, and many other things. Check out our recap of the week over on the OFE website: https://lnkd.in/gSMdPgbk We're so grateful to everyone from the global open soure community who made that week so special. In particular, thanks to the many partners who helped us to make these events possible, not least: Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology, OSPO++, Digital Public Goods Alliance , Digital Impact Alliance, Eclipse Foundation, The Linux Foundation, Sovereign Tech Fund, Mozilla, Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS), and many others! Safe to say, this is not the last you will be hearing from OSPOs for Good, conference or otherwise... Stay tuned for what comes next! #OpenSource #UnitedNations #OSPOsforGood #DigitalCommons #UN

In just four months, the second in-person edition of the OFA Symposium will take place at Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. The two-day conference will allow researchers and academics to take on the theme "Open Source in the Global Digital Economy" in a series of presentations, panels and interactions. Do you want to be part of the conversation and present at the OFA Symposium? Submit your abstract (max. 400 words) on a topic of your choice by 7 August and join us at D^3 Institute at Harvard! 🔗 See the Call for Proposals and submission details here: https://lnkd.in/deBVWipF

OFE Chairman Sachiko Muto is going live now with her panel on “Engaging the Open Source Community” at the OSPOs for Good 2024 conference! During this panel, Sachiko and the panelists will discuss how we can realise the potential of a resilient and open internet through intentional and collaborative community engagement, in the spirit of both open source and global digital cooperation. If you’re not in the room, head on over to UN Web TV to check out the discussion with Omkhar Arasaratnam, Hilary Carter, Arun Gupta and Tajh Taylor. http://webtv.un.org/en #OpenSource #SDGs #GlobalDigitalCooperation

In his opening statement at the OSPOs For Good 2024 event, OFE Executive Director Astor Nummelin Carlberg called for ambitious open-source innovation policies to tackle major global challenges. The event is now streaming live from the UN headquarters in New York 📺 https://webtv.un.org/en

We are proudly participating in the #OSPOSforGood side event “Government Spotlight: Policymaking and Strategy for Building #OpenSource Ecosystems,” together with Digital Public Goods Alliance and OpenForum Europe. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02FtFK10

📢 Calling on all researchers, academics, students and practitioners dealing with questions of open source and open technologies in the global digital economy... Submit an abstract (max. 400 words) before August 7 on a topic of your choice to get a chance to present your paper at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard this November. The conference has an interdisciplinary character, and we encourage submissions from a wide array of disciplines. 🔗 For more details regarding the submission and evaluation process, check out the conference website: https://lnkd.in/eBQd7TwX

OpenForum Europe will be all over the OSPOs for Good 2024 conference next week on July 9 & 10 in New York City, and we will be busy the entire week around the conference too! Join us on Monday 8 July for a government-focused workshop on building open source ecosystems, which we will be co-hosting with Digital Public Goods Alliance and Eclipse Foundation, featuring speakers like Armando J. Manzueta Peña from the Dominican Republic and Leonhard Kugler from Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS), alongside Lea Gimpel, Lucy Harris and Enzo Ribagnac. On Tuesday 9 July, OFE Executive Director Astor Nummelin Carlberg will be opening up the main conference, and Policy Advisor Nicholas Gates will be MCing throughout both days. OFE Chair Sachiko Muto will also be moderating a panel on Wednesday 10 July on the topic of "Engaging the Open Source Community" with Arun Gupta, Hilary Carter, Omkhar Arasaratnam and Tajh Taylor. Finally, OFE has organised an Open Tech Afterwork for the conference on Tuesday, with generous support from Mozilla, Eclipse Foundation, OSB Alliance (Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V.), The Linux Foundation, and Sovereign Tech Fund. On Thursday, Nick will co-host a session on "Open Source Infrastructure for Social Good" at the What's Next for Open Source? Workshops with Jake Watson from Digital Impact Alliance, Jon Lloyd from the Digital Public Goods Alliance and Jacob G. of OSPO++. That workshop will feature the generous contributions of Ibrahim Bayoh, Anir Chowdhury, Adriana Groh, Ruth Ikegah, Brian Behlendorf, Robert MacTavish, Nico Lück, Fui Meng Liew, and Julia Vieira de Andrade Dias. Thanks once again to all our partners on the Executive Committee who helped make this week possible, including Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology, German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Government of Kenya and OSPO++! #opensource #OSPO #OSPOsforGood2024