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Hello everyone, so welcome to the second keynote of Berlin Buzzwords. It's my pleasure and honor to welcome Amanda Brock who among many other things is the CEO of OpenUK
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the European representative of OIN and also a member of the OASIS Open Projects Advisory Council So without further ado Amanda it's up to you and she will talk about how we can use open source for good
00:44
Thank you everybody for having me along this evening to keynote Berlin Buzzwords, it's a real pleasure to be here with you. I Think Nina asked me I can't remember it was December or January to come to Berlin and keynote and originally I was going to be keynoting on Monday morning and
01:03
I have to say I was pretty much looking forward to a weekend in Berlin coming to the conference hanging out with all of you guys and This was going to be the biggest week of my year This was also going to be OpenUK week And as Deb said my main role in open source these days is that I am the CEO of
01:21
OpenUK I'm going to talk to you about open for good But I'm going to start by giving you a bit of context about OpenUK I don't know if it's an organization many of you will have heard of and Open UK has existed for a while, but really only sort of started to shine its light in the last six months and
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We are an advocacy and industry organization across the UK for open source technology or open technology And our vision is to develop and sustain UK leadership in open technology Now for many of you you may not have heard those two words together Or if you have you may have only heard them recently or not very often
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and it's something that's definitely worth paying attention to because I think it's very much the future of open and For us at OpenUK we've defined open technology And we've defined it as open source software open hardware and open data And of course at this point in time of innovation and development bringing those three together is critical
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I think we're probably the first organization to formalize that in our vision But I also believe that you will see many more organizations doing something similar And we we create that vision as a reality using the three key areas three three
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Three pillars of open and those are community legal and policy and education I'm just going to talk a little bit about what each of those mean for us So in terms of community, we're trying to build a really visible and loud open community across the UK and What we found
03:01
Unsurprisingly and you probably see this in your own geographic areas is that we're not necessarily Terribly joined up by geography within the open communities Most of us if you're anything like me or the people I know Will have worked in projects where we really enjoy the international Collaborations that we do and we work with people all over the globe and that's important to us
03:24
And of course that should never change but what we've discovered is that often people work on projects and know their Colleagues on those projects that may not know their neighbors Lockdown has been a revelation for me in the UK and I've discovered that a lady at Microsoft who I have actually been working with
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an unopened data project Lives across the street from me literally a hundred yards from me and we've become firm friends through lockdown So what we want to do is build this community is a strong visible loud community across the UK by engaging people and engaging them in events in our digital interactions
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Through different projects and one way we were going to do that was hosting open UK week Which was to take place as I said this week I'll talk a little bit more about that later But it's now moved to October and like Berlin buzzwords is mostly going to be online If not entirely online
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The second area and we're actually very strong in this one in the UK is legal and policy And we want to make sure that the UK becomes a great place to do open We were really really pleased that we were able to speak with the UK trade international trade people back in February now those people were
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Negotiating and still are negotiating all the replacement treaties being put in place around the brexit exit from Europe So we were able to go and speak to them and advise them and guide them with respect to the use of
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Source code provisions in those treaties as they were to impact open source We also review and monitor new legislation currently still in Europe We're still there to the end of the year But also primarily in the UK and we're building engagements with UK government to try and work more and more on the policies and practices
05:23
And we've also established within that legal and policy group something called future leaders and that's something you might be interested in I think again, we're the first to have created that anywhere in the globe But what we've done is we've realized that we're all getting on a bit So frankly, we have a bunch of people in this legal and policy group who are really established in open
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But we're all in our 40s and 50s and we need to make sure the next generation is going to come through and carry on This work no point in building something if it's not sustainable, right? So what we've done is engage with legal and policy people business people
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we don't yet have developers, but we'd love to have some developers engage in it and We are mentoring them and leading them through our review of UK government terms when it comes to procurement that will impact open So CCS, GDS and the NHS terms across the UK
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We will produce a paper reviewing those which will be written by the leaders of that future leaders group And we will host a seminar probably with the open chain project in the autumn with UK Gulf That group needed some training and most of the people involved know a bit about open But they're learning and they want to learn more. So what we did was pull together a few training sessions that
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Started I think in April They're at noon every Friday noon UK every Friday You can get details of what's coming up on open UK UK slash events in our events calendar. You'll see them they are
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Presented by leaders not just in the UK and Europe but global leaders and the open movement We started with what you might expect compliance governance patents trademarks the really practical things that would impact anybody with a support background around open and we've just flipped as of this week into looking at some of the
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Community topics we start on Friday with Neil McGovern Who as you probably knows the executive director of the Gnome Foundation Neil's talking about opening the desktop We have Jonathan Riddle the next week from KDE talking about apps and open and the week after we have Matt Jarvis talking about contribution to community projects and that will go on picking up on hardware and data into the summer
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We have a break in August and then we come back in September and we pivot to the commercials. So we talk about Business models, we have people you will know like Frank Harley Shaq From next cloud and
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Rancher Shane Coughlin from open chain talking about the business side of open now I mentioned those a little bit more length and you maybe would expect me to and a talk about open for good But I would encourage you to take a look They're free to attend anyone can attend and they are available as recordings afterwards Every time I watch one of them I learn something new
08:23
So that's the second tranche the second tranche is legal and policy which sits with building our community And then of course as a third piece, which is education and learning and we focus that across primary secondary and tertiary education We have a universities group who shoot this week I've had a three-day posse professor's open source software education as a project run by Google and Red Hat in the US
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They were coming to the UK to do Training for our professors Unfortunately, I think that's probably a face-to-face event We've pushed it provisionally back to October could be next year. That group is also looking at across student collaboration
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Entering a competition and we then have a secondary school So ages 11 to 18 where we're focusing on building qualification and educational exam qualification Possibly something we call the GCSE here not definitely we want to launch that by the end of 2022
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It's all been stolen unfortunately with the pandemic but that's something that's very dear to my heart making sure that we're not just educating kids and how to Learn a language how to build in Python or for a little kid scratch, but actually teach them what open means And we're also aware that many of the best developers are not focused on the traditional educational roots
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You know, they don't find doing GCSEs or whatever the exams Conducive to their way of working. So we're working with a number of major companies and with the education authorities to try to build an Apprenticeship scheme where people will learn on the job hands-on how to be an open engineer
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and then I guess finally we were looking at little kids and with the little kids we're engaging with a number of Organizations who are currently providing code camps and the like to take them a step further and actually teach kids About what open means not just the technologies so
10:21
One of the the many many events that were impacted or victim to the pandemic was the open UK kids competition This is something I was very proud of and I feel like a sweat of blood The first part of this year to get it in place and then of course along came coronavirus and off went my my competition
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In short it was a competition designed for kids to Build this glove and then compete with each other creating something that was original creative using the glove Which is a software glove The glove was designed originally by the singer Imogen Heap double Grammy award-winning singer Imogen Heap about ten years ago
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I worked with Imogen on the prototype and there was always an intention that at least Aspects of it would be open and that's what I was involved in the glove was picked up by Ariana Grande who toured about five years ago with it and
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Last year this mini new glove this kit was released Now that the glove is built the kids glove is built on a micro bit BBC micro bit and that Little board is used to power the musical Capacity of the glove the glove could be used for other things, but primarily it's an instrument
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I'm really excited to say that the glove has been open sourced as part of our project and you If you were to buy a kit you would get all aspects But you can know if you happen to have a micro bit download the instructions to build the glove Download the template to cut around your hand and also you I think you still have to buy the little speaker
12:02
I don't think there's any way of creating that that little piece of hardware, but it's inexpensive Now the the idea was that we were having kids competing in teams of four each team sharing one glove kit that we would Thanks to Red Hat sponsorship for giving the kids and then we would bring Winners to London this Thursday to have a code camp in the Red Hat innovation lab and
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Then to compete with Imogen heat there to judge Obviously, I cannot ask for kids to share a glove anymore. I Don't think many of their parents would let me move them around the UK this year let alone this week So we had to let that go but what we've done instead not to be beaten by it is create
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Smaller course a smaller competition rather and an additional course. So we have a competition taking place in September The winners will be announced at the open UK Awards They're part of open UK week and they take place on the 20th of October
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If any of you are in the UK or no folk in the UK Nominations have just been extended from the from now to the 15th of June Right through to 30th June so you can nominate people to participate Or to be considered for an award in open-source software hardware data as an individual or a young person
13:23
And then of course, there'll be a kids winning and what we've done with the kids is not just have this smaller competition But also we are giving each child their own gloves So they won't share and we've sent those out to them over the last week or so and we've developed a 10 Session animated course on open. So the first session is animated by the singer Imogen Heap
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Really brilliant. It looks wonderful And Imogen, of course is fabulous a very experienced in doing that kind of thing but what I like best about it is that we're not just Teaching the kids how to make the glove Imogen explains in the first episode what open source is
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So we then have nine further episodes coming out weekly and each one Explains an aspect of open source to the kids and helps their learning and development as well as giving them a fun activity Now that's currently being run in a closed environment for only the kids in the competition
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But we plan over the summer vacation to bring that to a much broader group of kids It's being released creative commons CC by SA which will allow other Organizations to talk to us have the script Translate it and have the course run in other languages, too So I hope we'll get the chance to work with maybe Nina and people in Germany and other countries on doing some
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translations and sharing for our kids So the final thing I want to mention to you about open UK is the Ditto project and it's the first truly open for Good project that I've mentioned today Ditto stands for develop in the open and the project is funded by innovate UK now
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This project has six hundred thousand Pounds of funding a small part of that's going to open UK so that we can contribute around governance Legal and policy and we are working to to make the project open chain compliant The project is producing an e-op system any observation system for hospitals
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And once that's created it's something that will be able to scale at a low cost and be very Interoperable across different health authorities in the UK and internationally so well worth taking a look at So how did a nice girl like me end up in a space like this well
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Early in 2012. I had been a corporate commercial and tech lawyer working in a number of big Companies managing legal teams developing legal teams and I was asked if I would go to a company called canonical in this slightly odd open source field that I'd heard of but
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Didn't know much about For three months and if I would go and help them scope what they would do with their legal team And then I was going to move to Amazon to work on an electrical retail project that I assume would have been the Kindle I Something very unexpected happened to me at canonical which was that I went in there to
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Help them to build something to be a lawyer to create a legal environment I find very quickly that I find a real home Somewhere that I felt I belonged and I really probably you could say I went native and I discovered that I belonged in this open source community
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Now for anyone who doesn't know canonical it's one of if not the biggest open source company in Europe headquartered in London founded by Mark shuttleworth and it is the commercial sponsor of the open source operating system Ubuntu and When I started there Ubuntu was the desktop of choice And it was very much at the forefront of the open desktop for the development community in the time that I was there
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I was there five years What we found was that it spread much much broader and it became one of the underpinning technologies for climb platform I'm quoting Simon Ward Lee here, but who was the director of cloud at the time at canonical? And I think we were something like 78 or 76 percent. He says of the cloud marketplace
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Back in 2012 now that hasn't necessarily changed a lot and what we see is that open source software like Ubuntu sits under almost all platform technology and I'll come back to that later in the presentation As I said, I have a number of roles. So as well as being CEO open UK
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I'm a European representative of OIN the open invention network My involvement with OIN goes back to my days at canonical We made a conscious decision when I ran the legal team not to patent any of our technology or innovation And instead what we did was contribute financially to the infrastructure that builds OIN
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OIN is the world's biggest defensive intellectual property organization it's probably not strictly open for good, but it does a lot of good and It is a collaboration across Organizations where every company person organization who participates signs up to an agreement
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That agreement says that if they hold patents They will license those patents for free to everybody else in the group to the extent those patents read on a definition Definitions called the Linux system definition and it's a list of packages. You'll find it on open invention network.com website
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So everybody agrees the same contract. Nobody pays to join. It's free for everyone Nobody's restricted from joining anybody can join go to OIN's website and you can participate and Everybody signs the same deal offering their patents up and this license to everybody else and receiving the same back
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the the companies involved are wide ranging lots of automotive mobile companies tech companies, but much much broader these days fashion houses Recruitment consultants all sorts of companies who use or develop technology that's open and
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We at Canonical actually became one of the funders who pay for the infrastructure along with the initial founders Sony, NEC, Philips, IBM Red Hat and Novell, SUSE We have a couple of new Funders Google and Nissan and also as well as Canonical Tom Tom was an associate member
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So back in the day at Canonical I sat on the board But when I left I made a conscious decision that I wanted to keep that involvement That the work OIN does is really important to me and to our community anybody who either Creates, distributes or uses open source software ought to be a licensee of OIN
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the only reason not to be frankly is that you want to be a patent aggressor and if you've seen the recent Gnome litigation, which OIN supported the Gnome Foundation when they were attacked by the Rothschild patent non-practicing entity or troll You'll see what happens when the open source community is really taken on on the patent front
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And of course the the victory that Gnome Foundation had was amazing and they not only got a patent license for themselves But for the whole open source community covering all the patents held by the Rothschild non-practicing entity So one of the things that I work on is OIN. I also have a couple of other formal roles
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I sit on the Open Projects Advisory Council at the OASIS standards body and I guess possibly the meat the essence of this talk today. I'm the chair of the UN's innovation labs Open source and intellectual property advisory and I'll talk a little bit more in some detail about that
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Just a couple of final things about projects I'm the editor of a book second edition of a book and it's called free and open source software law policy and practice that book is
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pretty much Involving or involves almost everybody who works at a well-known level in governance legal compliance Policy communities or a lot of those folk in any event to create 23 chapters Guiding you through how to manage open projects and issues around open
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I'm really proud of the fact that the beach foundation have given us funding which means that the book will be open access Now originally it was going to be published this year and we've pushed it back because of the pandemic It will be published in January I hope I'll get to actually meet many of you face-to-face at FOSDEM next year And we'll be launching the book formally at FOSDEM fingers crossed
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It will take place in the lobby in Brussels. And then I guess finally my final sort of open role is things like this I spend a lot of my time talking to people in the open communities and writing about open source I have a piece coming out in BCS today Which talks about the track and trace apps and if you've seen anything I've done recently
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We'll know that I've been following the track and trace apps Pushing for them to be open source and making sure that those are a way for us to find out how they've been open-sourced Licensing etc across Europe and beyond So until the UN's technology and innovation labs
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Deb, Nina, can one of you hit the presentation, please the The fourth industrial revolution has changed virtually every industry in the last decade and
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Now it's time to try that change to deliver on UN mandate Moving humanity forward Faster by focusing on the use of innovative technology is critical to reach the UN goals
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the goal of UNTIL is to function as a startup environment and create a platform for collaborative problem-solving between UN resources Academia the private sector and civil society Each lab will link this platform with innovators from across the globe and
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facilitate the global exchanges of ideas and resources To solve some of the humanities most pressing needs the UNTIL labs will use cutting-edge technology such as blockchain artificial intelligence all kinds of things fintech and drones With locations in Europe Africa Asia and more planned in other parts of the world
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Each lab will focus on specific Thematic areas in Finland, for example, the first state-of-the-art UNTIL lab focuses on peace and security Education, health and circular economy
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It's situated at the center of a vibrant startup hub within the Alta University campus in Espa The global UNTIL network is planning multiple collaborative projects to help the member states in progressing the UN mandate in the areas of peace and security, international law, humanitarian affairs, human rights and sustainable development
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All labs will support one another sharing the information and experiments and Communicating successes and learnings. The labs will invent, they will incubate and they will accelerate technology based products and services that would address problems and find
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optimal solutions We are convinced that this new global initiative will help us lift multitudes of people out of poverty, achieve the sustainable development goals and enable developing countries to advance into a better future
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So, thank you. The way the labs work is through the sustainable development goals And those meet the needs of society without compromising the future. They meet today's needs without compromising our future
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To meet sustainable development, we need today not to compromise tomorrow. It's critical to allow sustainable development to come from organized practices And that these are based on a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people on the planet
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The 17 goals are a call for action from all countries They recognize ending poverty and deprivation That these must go hand in hand with improving health and education That we need to spur the economies and reduce climate change Probably never been more important than it is at this time as we come out of lockdown and deal with the outputs of the pandemic
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And the aim of these goals, the economic goals, is to meet the UN's 2030 agenda and to make it a reality And that agenda is pretty much a summary of the UN's goals for the people, for the planet and prosperity
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And they aim to do it through ownership from all stakeholders to make it a reality Now the sustainable development goals also work with nine digital principles If you look on my slide down to the right in the middle, you'll see that there's a definition there for, or a principle there, which is to use open standards, open data, open source and open innovation
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That open source can probably mean software or hardware And frankly, it's another definition of this open technology phrase that I started off with Showing me that it's been used other places Now these were developed, these nine principles, to address failures and development of technology in international organisations
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And to allow sharing best practices and the use of ICT tools in international development The unified principles were pulled together over time across a number of organisations And the unified work that was done by UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the World Bank
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and the Melinda Gates Foundation So absolutely critical to the work that UNTIL does And UNTIL's philosophy is that when technology succeeds in solving a problem in our lives it becomes invisible The ticking of a clock, so constant as to fade into the background
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But too often we begin to take this transformative force for granted The technology is not, by its nature, an inclusive phenomenon Its availability in every context cannot be assumed And as the clock ticks on unnoticed, lives are lost I don't think there's much that can sum up the importance of technology being open to us all more than that
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And you'll see there are already four labs across the globe and another half dozen are more planned in different countries So I was approached just over a year ago to create the OSNIP Advisory Group And to give you some context, we work on a wide array of projects from the four labs Those have included to date a blockchain land registry for Afghanistan
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A platform that measures charities' impacts, gamification of literacy in the 21st century And maternal health for parents Pretty wide ranging and there's a whole raft more projects that we've worked on So the group that we've pulled together are primarily in Europe
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Although we do have members in Asia and the US The group is mandated to maintain a framework that enables UNTIL to foster shareable or open technologies And catalyze the creation of digital solutions To build interoperable solutions that can scale across member states It's really important to me that as many of the projects as possible are open and by default they will be
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I would say this is a bit of a motley crew This is not my wording, this is, I should probably realise, the UN's wording And we are a group according to them of nine experts in the legal and technology innovation fields I'm not going to read it all out to you But this group of people, actually a few of them are based in Germany and definitely known to you
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So you probably all know Mirko You'll know Isabelle Drosfrom from Apache And Frank Kalishek, the founder of Nextclide So it's not just lawyers, it's not just policy people You know, we have community people We have people running open companies We have companies that use open, economists, policy people, all sorts involved in this group
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And the purpose is very much for us to get a broad community And a broad understanding from that grassroots base into the projects But it's not just this small group that can work on the UNTIL projects
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We have the ability to contribute as individual members of communities By contributing to the projects being run out of the labs And you can see more details of those individual projects on the website The UN is also in process of building a fellowship program That will allow internships for individuals with sponsorship from companies
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So that they can join our pro bono basis to work in the labs And something I would recommend strongly So why does this matter? I care about open source not just being good software I care about open projects not just being good projects but being used for good But why would anybody else care? Well he cares, I care But you could say of course those two would care
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They work in open, that's all they do Let's think about it practically So from a coding perspective it's really important That when projects are being built in these international organizations On the basis that they've got to be scalable across countries That they're going to allow access to the code
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And that we can see that that code is secure before it's rolled out and scaled It's critical both to keep the member states And the governmental and supranational organizations honest But also for us to be able to contribute, fix bugs It's easier to meet compliance requirements
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The code will be interoperable, it can be visible We can work with it across different projects It also allows as codes rolled out country by country Particularly in developing countries for them to engage And I'll talk more about that later because it is a very important thing But as it becomes scalable within country They're able to learn how to code, learn how to contribute
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And learn how to be part of a project themselves So that collaboration in country means that it's not just a fix for the problem Or a scratch for an itch as Linus would say That actually encourages ownership of a project at the local level You may be familiar with the phrase give a man a fish and you've given him a meal
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Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for life And that's pretty much what these projects allow us to do We should all use open technology wherever we can And that is something that even a company like Microsoft today would agree with
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So we've not just seen these international organizations Pay lip service and start to move towards it But we've seen at the essence of business, major companies Some of whom really did not like open source to start with Making that mind shift And I guess we have to wonder why and how that happened
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And if you've seen me speak before you'll know I use this slide a lot So this is a very squishy picture It's not very flattering for my poor friend Steve Wally But my friend Steve Wally was presenting at the open source summit At the Linux Foundation in Edinburgh in 2018 In fact he was keynoting it And he was keynoting it along with Keith Burgell of OIN, the CEO of OIN
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One after the other because Microsoft had just signed up to OIN You'll remember I mentioned OIN You get access to Microsoft's patents to the extent they read on open source If you become part of OIN And what Steve was explaining was the journey that Microsoft had been on
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And how a company that 20 years ago, 10 years ago, hated open very publicly The company with the CEO who described open source as a cancer Can move to the slide that you see now in this picture of Sasha Nadal Asking to be judged by Microsoft's actions of today Actions where at least according to GitHub
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Microsoft is now the biggest single contributor to open source in the world So where did that come from? Well Steve would tell you it's three things 10 years ago clients didn't ask Microsoft for open source Today they do Clearly money counts Obviously that makes perfect sense I mentioned already the change when I was at Canonical
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Where we saw open move from the desktop etc into the platform and cloud environment In fact I'm doing a talk in two weeks time, two weeks today About I think it's called I know what it's called It's my talk It's open under the cloud So that talk looks at the different technologies
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And how the platform economy would not exist without open And Microsoft have acknowledged that For them to be able to work in platform services They have to be able to understand and use open technology Therefore they have to be pro open And finally the third reason is the development community Particularly those born since 1989
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The year the Linux kernel was created Those people have grown up with open as a norm And those developers expect nothing but open They don't see anything strange, unusual or revolutionary about it They just know it's the best way to make code So they want to work in that open and collaborative way And if that's good enough for a big business like Microsoft
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It should be good enough for supranational organizations, charities Other ways that we do good using technology today I just wanted to change tack slightly And talk a little bit about another experience I had I worked for 18 months, 2 years based out of Amsterdam
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For a company called Vion, it used to be called Vimplecom If any of you are based in Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Algeria, Bangladesh Across CIS you will know Vimplecom Or across the stand you'll know Vimplecom
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It trades, Vion trades under various brands with this be like logos So you'll know beeline if you're in Russia And you'll know mobiling, the brand I've used here if you're in Pakistan And I was sent out to Pakistan for work a couple of times Which is absolutely fascinating And this picture was taken in a souk in a market In a modern building, I think it's in G4 in Islamabad
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And if you went into the souk you suddenly felt transformed back in time You know, it was fragrant with the smells of spices Vibrant with the colours of fabrics and ceramics in an array of colours Really felt like we were back several hundred years ago
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Until you came to a corner with this little shop And this little shop had stickers across it from all the major mobile networks in Pakistan And you'll see here, sitting on the counter, a biometrics machine Now these two gentlemen were excessively proud of that biometrics machine
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Pakistan has biometrics for all its nationals, a national database And this gentleman polished the machine for several minutes Before I was allowed to take this picture And in the store there were a queue of people Each of them holding a wad of cash, their ID, and a photocopy of their ID And as they came to the counter they'd hand over the cash They would use the biometrics to have their fingers printed and for them to be checked
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And the pre-prepared copy of their ID would go into a little book as a receipt They'd hand over the cash and within seconds, the joys of technology That cash would be transferred somewhere else across the world
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Sometimes to, in the particular case of the gentleman I was speaking to in the queue, in the line To his father who was a sheep farmer in the mountains of Pakistan And his father was going to be able to collect from the local trader There wasn't even a shop in his village The trader would likely be there once a week on a street corner Selling whatever vegetable was in season, possibly tomatoes that week
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Along with handing out cash or phone credits that had been received via these digital transactions So you were able to cash out Now that is probably a bit interesting But what's really interesting about it is that in Pakistan and in many of these other countries
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There was a huge population without access to financial services, without access to a bank account No bank cards, no ability to borrow money And these digital infrastructures being built through mobile phone networks Were allowing access to financial inclusion for many, many poor, rich people I think the stat in 2020, it may have changed because of the pandemic
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But I think at the start of the pandemic, the stat was 1.9 billion people across the globe Still living in poverty and a need for them to receive financial services However that was going to be
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But with the ability to skip ahead of those of us in the West with our bank structures And that was great And I was really proud of the work we were doing now Because I felt we were doing something useful But there was one problem with it It wasn't open source And what I discovered in the last five years is that banking has moved to open source
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Projects or organizations like the Linda Gates Foundation And the World Council of Credit Unions have led the way in that The Gates Foundation have recently spun off the Mojilik Foundation I'd recommend anybody interested in fintech take a look at this It's an open source payment platform Which has actually been rolled out already in Ivory Coast and Tanzania
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Doing exactly what the structures that we were talking about I was talking about before in Pakistan was doing You can see some more information about it there And I would recommend you take a look at that site But what's happened here is that to create this financial inclusion There have been five pillars of financial change
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Where open has been used for good And those are around the fact that it needs to be accessible by all which open is It needs to meet or exceed the convenience of cost and utility of cash Which of course digital financial services can do It needs to be open to drive competition And open innovation expands the services offered on a sustainable model
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And it's very very scalable across developing countries Now just before I wrap up I'm conscious that I've taken up a lot of your time today And you may have some questions I want to chat I want to talk about one last open for good initiative that I'm involved with
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And this is very recent I have a certain opinion of the open source community So it was no surprise to me when we went into lockdown That talking to others in our community I was constantly being told about great new projects that people were spinning up Projects that would create open ventilators, respirators
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Try to help people with financial problems, create educational platforms, etc But what I found very quickly That as we were talking about projects I was seeing duplication of these projects across different countries And I was on a call talking about OSPOs of all things With a chap called Jacob Green at MosLabs.io
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And we were talking about OSPOs But MosLabs had come out of the John Hopkins University Which of course many of you will know Is the home of the coronavirus dashboard The dashboard that's become the base point For all of our understanding of tracking the pandemic
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So obviously Jacob and I both had a strong interest In what was happening across the open communities And we realised that there was this duplication We were seeing it different places And we knew that there was a need to pull people together and create a space Where we could find out about each other's projects So what we did was Jacob initially created a Slack workspace
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Which then had a Riot layer built onto it So that we got an open source offering as well And that was just a place for people to come into different channels And talk about the work they were doing on specific areas or projects
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To make other projects aware of their projects To let people know if they needed help And I'll give you a couple of examples So we shared across a number of projects working on open ventilators This article that was published in the Journal of Open Law Technology and Society, JOLTS Called Breathe In Breathe Out
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And this article helps to explain how to use an open hardware licence On a ventilator, an open ventilator We shared a NASA project from the Jet Propulsion Lab there Which was for a 3D printed respirator And which was also available on an open licence
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And we're taking that now As of today, one step further So I'm sort of giving you a preview of a press release that will go out tomorrow By tomorrow morning, if you look up OpenTechResponse.com You will find that as well as our GitHub area We also have a website, a very small website, really a landing page
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That landing page will give you a few things You'll be able to pick up this lovely I support Open Tech Response as a widget with the website embedded in it You'll be able to volunteer either as a project Or as an individual looking for a project to work with
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In response to COVID-19 So it will be a matchmaking service That will allow us to put volunteers and projects together And that's been spun out by the Open Teens project I'm really grateful to them for picking it up When we start to work out the kind of tools that would help the communities work together To remove silos and improve collaboration globally
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Patrick McFadden of DataStax was one of the people Getting involved in building this out And he pointed out that we should think beyond COVID-19 I don't like being the voice of doom and gloom And didn't want to be the person saying And when we have our next disaster But when we have our next disaster We're ready for it We have these tools in place
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To help the Open Tech community spin out their solutions fast And to collaborate and be aware of what each other's doing And also to matchmake So if any of you are interested Whether it's as a developer, somebody does documentation, governance Whatever your bag is If you're interested in volunteering Go to OpenTechResponse.com tomorrow morning onwards
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And you will be able to follow the links through To register as a volunteer Or to register your project that needs volunteering If you need help With that, I sort of get to the end of my presentation Roughly on time I think I'm going to leave it now to Deb To bring me back to whether or not we have any questions from the audience
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Great, thank you Amanda for sharing some of the amazing work that you have been doing And the many interesting initiatives around open source So for everyone, please ask your questions in the Slack channel studio
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We still have like five minutes for a few questions There is, so to start there is a question from Isabel Who clearly we are impressed by what you're doing with Open UK So the question is like, are there any plans to extend the initiative to Other countries, to Germany, the EU for instance
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It's interesting It's very flattering And I would be very happy to work with anybody We've been approached by a couple of countries And we've been having a conversation with Jacob Green's OSPO project On the basis that it would make sense Because Open UK seems to have come together well
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To take some of the things that we've done and replicate them and share So we will look at building a country specific OSPO Making as a sort of open source program office for countries And offering that model to anybody who wants it I wouldn't presume that everybody should use what we've done It just seems to have worked quite well
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And we're happy to share Everything that we're doing is available on an open license And you know, take it, run with it if you want to do some of the stuff that's there It sort of makes me smile because The first time I was asked to be involved in Open UK I said no I wasn't interested in a country specific organization
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And I was persuaded otherwise largely because of Brexit So it's a little bit ironic that I wanted to make sure we didn't get cut adrift And to make sure that our community knew each other So we could keep engaging internationally That now we've got other countries talking to us about whether we can help them I'd be really keen if anybody in any country is interested in the kids competition
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I'd really be keen to talk to you Because we have the script All we need to do is create a translation and have a voiceover done And you have this brilliant 10 episode series It was developed by a guy called David Whale Who is an award-winning tech educationalist
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And we have a company called Dronalism who created our branding for Open UK They've done all the animation and it's really fun Great, thanks I hope that answers your question, Isabel Like I guess you anyway know Isabel She will reach out to you
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But thanks, I think it's quite interesting how we can extend it to other countries And so I don't see any other questions Maybe just a question from Okay, so we have another question from Gethin Who would like to know Do you know of initiatives in the UK public sector to promote open source?
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So this is UK specific Yeah, yeah So I know, it depends on what you want from me What my answer should be So I may be giving you the wrong answer here I mentioned the Ditto project developed in the open Which is an IUK funded project for the NHS And there is a report coming out probably next week from OSOR, the observatory in Europe
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It's currently with Open UK's legal and policy group And we're doing some updating for them and collaborating with them on that I think it has about 10 initiatives listed and we will add a couple more to that I don't know whether you're aware of the work NHSX is doing
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But NHSX, their policy is to release on an open basis I guess there's some restrictions around that And they released at least the front end of our tracking trace app on that basis But we do intend to be doing a lot more work with the public sector To try to see more engagement and to ensure that more projects are public
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You can contact us at hello at openuk.uk If you want to work with us on any of that We're really open to everybody I should have said that there is a way of paying to engage with Open UK But that's not our goal Our goal is for it to be open to everybody and anybody can participate
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There's no cost to that So if you would like to get involved please ping us Great, makes sense So unfortunately we are running a bit out of time So thanks Sorry Deb, I talked too much as you know No, no thanks It was as I told you before
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I think there are quite a few initiatives I'm personally interested in as well So we'll follow up And for everyone else Please if you want to continue the conversation with Amanda Please proceed to the breakout room, we buzz one And Deb just before we go I want to say congratulations to the team who put this conference together I think Berlin Buzzwords is the only event I know that's actually happening
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Roughly on the dates that it was meant to despite the pandemic So well done everybody Congrats Indeed Thanks Amanda, see you around Thank you
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