The Political Potential of OSPOs
summary
Open source code already underpins whole economies and the study quantifies it: 0.5–0.7 of the EU's GDP, a 10% increase in globally available open code yields ~0.4–0.6% GDP lift, and private investments show a 1:10 cost–benefit ratio. Recommendation is to fund a pilot fleet of 10 government OSPOs (plus the Commission OSPO) and a well-funded network to institutionalize skills, map gaps, accelerate reuse, and lower transaction costs so public services scale and retain trust.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:14The Open Source Study
- 9:04Economic Growth
- 13:50Institutional Infrastructure
- 18:50Learning from Private Sector
- 20:05Strengthening links between diverse organizations
- 23:37Semantic interoperability
- 25:25Citizen value
- 27:27Community building
- 28:12Corporate goals
- 29:31Questions
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