Transforming the Future: Open Source Innovations for Digital Public Goods & Infra...
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A 3.5-year EU-funded ITU–UNDP program builds a competency framework, training materials and an institutional playbook to deploy two staffed open source program offices as two-year pilots supporting national digital public goods; selection draws 23 applications from 20 countries, a 200+ expert roster with ~30 shortlisted, and aims to publish courses on ITU Academy. Side projects include an LLM + RAG public-service chatbot from a hackathon (180 participants, 19 submissions) and a working group with 40+ contributors.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source digital public goods
- 1:46Open source in UN SDGs
- 3:56Open Source Ecosystem Enabler
- 8:14Open source program offices
- 12:51Country selection process
- 20:47Global network of OSPOs
- 23:56Open source community impact
- 28:12Next steps and timeline
- 30:22ITU open source hackathon
- 34:40UN open source harmonization
- 36:03Q&A
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