OSPOs for Good! Achieving the UN SDGs with Open Source
summary
UN convenings produce concrete outputs: two OSPOs-for-Good editions (started 2013 with ~70 attendees) and a conference report plus UN Web TV videos; the UN publishes eight UN open source principles (open by default, contribute back, etc.) and is building an OSPO-in-a-box toolkit with partners like the Asian Development Bank to spawn dozens more OSPOs; Kenya already endorses the principles, organizers target 300–400 endorsements; workstreams address maintenance of neglected tools, SDG-focused projects (SDG Matrix/Kos) and running stacks on sovereign clouds rather than hyperscalers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to OSPOs for Good
- 1:03UN’s role in open source
- 8:26Industry perspective on open source
- 12:16German model for open source
- 17:59Global policy trends in open source
- 22:13Building human and technical capacity
- 30:59Q&A with the audience
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