Nil Homedes Busquets
President
Barcelona
Biography
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.
Fiona Krakenbuerger
Co-Founder
Berlin
Biography
Fiona is Co-Founder of the Sovereign Tech Fund, an initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, to support Open Source Infrastructure in the Public Interest. Fiona has a background in Open Source and Tech Funding and has helped bootstrap and implement Programs in Germany and the US, at the Open Technology Fund, the Prototype Fund and others. Besides her career in Open Source Funding, Fiona supported and founded various initiatives for more diversity in tech communities. She currently serves as a committee member of the RIPE Community Projects Fund, on the board of the OpenJS Foundation and on the Advisory Council of the Open Technology Fund.
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.
Georg Kunz
Open Source Program Manager
Herzogenrath
Biography
Georg is an open source advocate and a long-term contributor to a wide range of open source communities and projects. He currently serves on the steering committee of the TODO Group, and other committees and boards. He held the role of Open Source Coordinator in Ericsson’s Cloud R&D organization for several years before joining the Open Source Program Office at Ericsson where he is responsible for guiding Ericsson’s upstream engagement.
Organisation
Ericsson
Industry/business
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.