With 68% of the world’s population estimated to be living in urban environments by 2050 - and a simultaneous projected rise in global population to nearly 10B people - the need to rethink our approach to civic infrastructure is ever more pressing.  How can we architect smart cities, with open source thinking, standards, data […]

Discussing the evolving role of Open Source in Standardisation

The establishment of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) to achieve open source goals is gaining momentum in the public sector, in academia and beyond. We see these developments on a city, regional, national and supranational level. This matters because the OSPO construct was a key enabler in unlocking vast amounts of value for the ICT […]