Johan Linåker
Senior Researcher
Malmö
Biography
Speaker session
Collaboration on Open Source for an Interoperable Europe
The concept of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) has been picked up and implemented at an unprecedented rate among EU public services, showcasing a new need for institutionalised and embedded involvement in open source within the governmental structures. The session will kick off with a presentation of a soon-to-be-published study “OSS capabilities in Public Sector Organisations in the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland”, diving into state-of-the-art analysis of archetypes, goals, and future of governmental OSPOs. This will be followed by a discussion among the panellists who lead or are in the process of setting up their organisation’s OSPOs about the significance of collaboration among these entities to achieve fully interoperable public services in the EU.
Nils Masuch
Policy Officer
Berlin
Biography
Nils Masuch is serving as a policy officer for the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Germany. Since 2021 he is working in units related to digital sovereignty. His main focus lies in the further development and utilisation of innovative Open Source solutions for the public administration. He is also involved in the founding and initialisation process of the German Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS). Nils Masuch holds a diploma degree in computer science from Technical University of Berlin and has worked as a scientific researcher in the area of distributed artificial intelligence for several years.
Speaker session
Collaboration on Open Source for an Interoperable Europe
The concept of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) has been picked up and implemented at an unprecedented rate among EU public services, showcasing a new need for institutionalised and embedded involvement in open source within the governmental structures. The session will kick off with a presentation of a soon-to-be-published study “OSS capabilities in Public Sector Organisations in the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland”, diving into state-of-the-art analysis of archetypes, goals, and future of governmental OSPOs. This will be followed by a discussion among the panellists who lead or are in the process of setting up their organisation’s OSPOs about the significance of collaboration among these entities to achieve fully interoperable public services in the EU.
Camille Monchicourt
Informations System Officer
Châteauvieux
Biography
Camille Monchicourt is information system officer in the Ecrins National Park in French South Alps, since 2008. In 2012, he started conceiving Geotrek with his team, an opensource database and software to manage and promote hiking and nature in the national park. In 2017, they created and developed GeoNature, another opensource software, to manage and distribute biodiversity data. He is now leading the communities of more than 200 public organizations sharing these softwares and pooling their resources to maintain and improve them. He studied geography and GIS at the University of Toulouse (France).
Speaker session
Collaboration on Open Source for an Interoperable Europe
The concept of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) has been picked up and implemented at an unprecedented rate among EU public services, showcasing a new need for institutionalised and embedded involvement in open source within the governmental structures. The session will kick off with a presentation of a soon-to-be-published study “OSS capabilities in Public Sector Organisations in the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland”, diving into state-of-the-art analysis of archetypes, goals, and future of governmental OSPOs. This will be followed by a discussion among the panellists who lead or are in the process of setting up their organisation’s OSPOs about the significance of collaboration among these entities to achieve fully interoperable public services in the EU.