Johan Linåker
Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University
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New Paper - Making Impact Visible in Funding of Open Source Software
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New paper out at ESEM 2026 where Kevin Lumbard, Georg Link and I look at how funders of Open Source Software (OSS) conceptualise, measure and report the impact of their funding – and what this implies for sustaining both the funding and the OSS it supports.
Debattinlägg: Budskap till en ny regering: Inför regeln öppen programvara först
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Öppen programvara är ett centralt och högst strategiskt verktyg (av flera) för att stärka och bygga digital rådighet och handlingsfrihet, både på kort och lång sikt. Det är väldigt tydligt när man ser till EUs open source strategi tillika föreslagna Cloud and AI Development Act. Allt fler länder inom Europa går mot en open-by-default/unless policy i upphandling och anskaffning för att stärka tr...
New report - National Support Structures and Capabilities for growing Digital Sovereignty through Sharing and Reuse of Open Source Software in the Public Sector
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Denmark faces a growing need to strengthen digital sovereignty as dependencies on dominant technology vendors limit choice, transparency, and long‑term control over critical digital infrastructure. Open Source Software (OSS) emerges as a practical lever to address these challenges, enabling greater autonomy, interoperability, and shared innovation across the public sector. However, Danish publi...
New Paper - Advancing Digital Government through Open Source Indicators
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New paper out where Sachiko Muto and I argue that if we want to enable the many opportunities Open Source Software (OSS) offers for digital government, we need to start measuring how governments actually use and support OSS, and enable knowledge-sharing and benchmarking by baking those measures into global digital maturity indexes.
