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
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.
Arnau Monterde
Director of Democratic Innovation
Barcelona
Biography
Arnau Monterde is an academic who holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Since 2018, he has served as the Director of Democratic Innovation at the Barcelona City Council, where he oversees projects such as the Decidim project, being one of the co-founders. Additionally, he is responsible for Canodrom, the Center of Digital and Democratic Innovation in Barcelona, which is a public laboratory for innovation and research that focuses on the intersection between technology, democracy, and society. Previously, he coordinated the tecnopolitica.net project at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC). He is actively involved in several programs and projects related to digital rights, technological sovereignty, open-source software, and the democratisation of network society.
Speaker session
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.
Sachiko Muto
OFE Chair
Biography
Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe and a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then CEO. Prior to OFE, Sachiko worked for several years in public affairs. With degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the LSE, she has been a guest researcher at UC Berkeley and is currently continuing her research at TU Delft on the social and political implications of technological change.
Organisation
OpenForum Europe
Speaker session
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.