Is Digital Sovereignty Another Word for Nationalism?

https://osenetwork.com/2026/06/26/is-digital-sovereignty-another-word-for-nationalism/

UN Open Source Week 2026: Emmanuel Lemor (Vice President of Joomla!) meets Adriana Groh, Managing Director of the Sovereign Tech Agency, the first government organization in the EU dedicated to strengthening critical digital infrastructure in the public interest.
https://www.unopensource.org

#Joomla #SovereignTechAgency #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource #DigitalCooperation

We are presenting at 11:10 in the UN SDG track at the IBM One building, 2nd floor. The #UNOpenSourceWeek website has not been updated, but rest assured that we will be there to share our insights about the joys and challenges of running open-source businesses.

The panel will feature Michael Moser from Adfinis, Marc Laporte from EvoluData, Daniel Izquierdo from Bitergia, and the two managing partners from Regento (including @nekohayo)

#OpenSourceUnited #UnitedNations #OpenSource #FLOSS

We are at the IBM One office for the United Nations Open Source Week's Community Day, where the first presentation by Kush Varshney started with a picture of one of IBM's 7 nanometer chips

#IBM #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSourceUnited #UnitedNations

UN Open Source Week, day 4: with Juan Álvarez Sánchez (Spain) and Marc Vergés (American), two of the founders of the open source project FireForm that helps firefighters.
https://www.unopensource.org

#Joomla #FireForm #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource #DigitalCooperation

Photo: Emmanuel Lemor

We have appreciated the #UNOpenSourceWeek 2026 content on our timeline, giving us a glimpse into some of the insights emerging from the panels, workshops, hackathons, and community-led events at the United Nations headquarters in New York City!

Shoutout to all the members of the Carpentries community and allied organisations who attended in person and those that made some presentations. 👏

We are keen on the future outcomes of these engagements and collaborations on the alignment of #OpenSource goals with those of the UN Charter, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Digital Compact. 🌟

I’ve been fortunate to be able to attend the UN Open Source Week event again this year at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City where they bring the open source community together with government and policy folks to facilitate collaboration and information sharing. Here are a few of my thoughts from the first 4 days. #UNOpenSourceWeek

https://fastwonderblog.com/2026/06/25/united-nations-open-source-week/

At #OSPOsforGood Day at #UNOpenSourceWeek, Policy and Research Lead Paul Sharratt spoke to a standing-room-only audience on the panel “Financing Open Source and Digital Public Goods: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach.”

Paul made the case for why open source infrastructure requires dedicated public investment. Critical open source is a classic market failure. The software provides enormous economic and social value, but private actors have little incentive to invest in maintaining it:

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My QOTD from #UNOpenSourceWeek from @sovtechfund 's Adriana Groh:

"Be proud of your work. Although open source isn't in the news and other names are, open source is running the world. There is power there. We are powerful."