Johan Linåker
Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University
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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.
The UN Open Source Enablement Compass
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Today, we’re announcing the launch of the Open Source Enablement Compass (OSEC) project, a collaboration between the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, along with our first and founding partners, GitHub and the Ethereum Foundation.
Conversation piece on Europe’s Tech Sovereignty package
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Wrote a piece on the EU Sovereign Tech package for The Conversation UK, looking at its opportunities and challenges ahead.
