Duration:

15 minutes (this can be adjusted and shortened if necessary)

Format:

Speedstorming

Context:

OSS has become a cornerstone of innovation, collaboration, and digital sovereignty in Europe. However, its widespread adoption and integration into both public and private sectors face numerous challenges. Despite its benefits-including enhanced transparency, reduced costs, and technological independence-various actors, from corporations to grassroots to public entities, remain hesitant to adopt OSS solutions.

Objectives:

This session will engage the participants in speedstorming exercise to take up one challenge, proposing one policy action to reduce the OSS adoption barriers.

Expected results:

Through insights gathered from this co-creation session, the workshop aims to contribute to exchanges with the European Commission’s Units dealing with the European digital ecosystem, providing grassroots perspectives that reflect the real needs of OSS users and contributors. The outputs will feed into the work carried out by Martel Innovate and Digital for Planet on EU-funded cooperation projects in shaping policy roadmaps. They will directly inform projects like NGI Commons, NGI4ALL.E and NexusForum.EU, which aim to bridge the European digital ecosystem and communities with European Commission priorities.

Structure:

The session will be composed of a short introduction (5 minutes) and an interactive exercise (10 minutes).

> Speakers

Robbert Van Kranenburg and Francesco Panella (Martel Innovate)