Keynote: Open Source as a Key Driver for Delivering on the UN Sustainable Dev Goals
summary
UN presents a concrete program tying open source to the 17 SDGs with an explicit claim that open source is the main means of implementation, a three‑pillar UN open source strategy (policy, culture, tooling), internal adoption metrics from a survey, community growth from 20–30 to 600 attendees for mind the open source gap, a shared five‑track plan including an open source software catalog, a One‑Stop Shop portal (launching November), and hackathons that produced deployable prototypes in 48 hours.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source and SDGs
- 2:06Why open source critical
- 3:54UN’s open source strategy
- 4:37Open Source Gap initiative
- 5:40Building open source communities
- 6:01Open source hackathons
- 7:05UN agencies collaborating
- 8:29Assessing open source adoption
- 8:52Launching UN open source portal
- 9:33OPEN for Good conference
- 10:38Cloud Native Hack scaling
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