How Open Source can benefit the Sustainable Development Goals
summary
Work done inside the UN builds reusable products: a go portfolio with modules like go travel (passenger data), got intel (financial intelligence), a blockchain land‑registry prototype and a national learning platform targeting 1,000,000 primary students (already about half). Claim is that opening code and adopting digital public goods avoids reinvention, drives economies of scale, and lets governments escape vendor lock‑in while funding sustainability via open business models (freemium / SaaS / data services).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:30Open source culture and SDGs
- 3:35UN ICT office and technology solutions
- 7:24Lessons learned from technology adoption
- 11:43SDGs and digital public goods
- 15:37Combining open culture with SDGs
- 18:08Flipping the interoperability paradigm
- 20:38Open source in public sector
- 21:45Accelerating developing countries
- 22:49Open business models and sustainability
- 24:11Conclusion and Q&A
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