This page is for sharing presentations delivered during the EU OSPO Network meetings.
Presentations
National Government Codeplatform project
Presentation by Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) delivered on 28 November 2025.
The presentation outlines the Dutch national government’s plan to create a sovereign, open source code platform (based on Forgejo) as a shared service for all public bodies, reducing dependence on US-based providers like GitHub. It explains key features (publishing, collaboration, CI/CD and security), the upcoming pilot phase, and opportunities for EU-level collaboration and federation.
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Sovereign AI
Presentation by SURF delivered on 29 September 2025.
The presentation outlines SURF’s vision for sovereign, trustworthy AI in Europe, built on a layered architecture from infrastructure and GPU capacity up to a “Trusted AI Hub” that connects multiple commercial and open source LLMs (including GPT-NL). It shows how this stack enables safe, privacy-aware AI use in education via tools like EduGenAI, open source frontends, and integrations such as Nextcloud.
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European Open Source Academy
Presentation by OpenForum Europe delivered on 29 November 2024.
The presentation introduces OSAwards.eu, a new EU-funded initiative to create a European public recognition scheme for open source software and hardware, centred on the European Open Source Academy, European Open Source Awards, and EU Open Source Week. It outlines the project’s objectives—celebrating European open source excellence, boosting skills, and raising awareness—and the Year 1 plan, including the inaugural awards ceremony on 30 January 2025.
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United Nations (UN) Open Source Workstreams
Presentation by UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UNOICT) delivered on 29 November 2024.
The presentation highlights the UN’s open source agenda, built around five workstreams: a software catalogue, common policy framework, UN-wide open source licence, code-hosting platform, and cross-organisational capacity building. It also sets out eight UN Open Source Principles, including being open by default, contributing back, secure by design, reusability, documentation, incentives (RISE), and sustainable scaling.
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Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE)
Presentation by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) delivered on 29 November 2024.
The presentation describes the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) initiative by ITU and UNDP, which establishes and supports national OSPOs in Global South countries to build digital public services using open source and Digital Public Goods. It outlines the common policy framework, training and outreach activities, pilot-country selection, and the follow-on OSSET project to standardise and network OSPOs globally for sustainable digital transformation.
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Progress and trends in the national open source policies and legal frameworks
Presentation by the OSOR Team, European Commission, delivered on 10 October 2024.
The presentation reports on OSOR’s analysis of national open source policies and legal frameworks, highlighting key drivers such as transparency, digital sovereignty, and crisis response. It shows how countries increasingly use collaborative ecosystem approaches—through OSPOs, shared development, and international initiatives—to balance sovereignty, transparency and practical implementation.
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Interoperable Europe Act
Presentation by the European Commission delivered on 02 October 2024.
The presentation explains the Interoperable Europe Act and how the European Commission is implementing it through mandatory interoperability assessments, new governance structures, and an obligation to share interoperability assets. It also showcases supporting instruments such as the European Interoperability Framework, NIFO observatory, Digital Public Administration Factsheets, the EIF toolbox and the Interoperable Europe Portal to help administrations design digital-ready, cross-border public services.
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