Hi there! I'm a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University, based in Malmö, Sweden.
My research looks at how open source software, open source AI and data sharing can help governments and industry strengthen digital sovereignty, interoperability and open innovation. I work closely with public-sector organisations, companies and policymakers, from national networks in Sweden to EU and UN initiatives, to turn research into practical strategies, guidelines and communities.
Here you'll find my publications, talks and other activities, along with blog posts on current developments. For collaborations, talks or interviews, get in touch.
Notes, thoughts and summaries of talks, papers and reports. Some in English, some in Swedish, depending on the context :)
Europe is falling behind the U.S. and China in building and maintaining strategic digital infrastructure, largely due to underinvestment and fragmented support for open technologies. In a recent TechPolicy.press op‑ed, co-authored with Amandine Le Pape, Nicholas Gates Peter Neuhäusler, and Dr. Denilton Darold, we leverage fresh data from Fraunhofer ISI and the OSAwards.eu project, and highlight...
A main theme from this year FOSDEM was without a doubt the role of public procurement in enabling Europe’s digital sovereignty and improving sustainability and security of its digital infrastructure. Several panels and talks were more or less dedicated to the topic, stressing its importance for promoting demand and supply under sovereign conditions. Below are some key take aways and reflections.
Wrote a piece for the Conversation on why Europe needs to pivot away from its de facto strategy of placing almost all of its dependencies on far too few clouds, and more importantly, clouds that can become bricks in a geopolitical transatlantic game of chess. And yes, this issue is not limited to the cloud, but spans space and subsea infrastructure, semiconductor supply chains, and social media...
Att offentlig sektor lider av leverantörssinlåsningar är ingen löpsedelsnyhet. Dock börjar det bli dags att vi tar tag i detta grundläggande problem när vissa av våra beroenden helt plötsligt har börjat utvecklas till brickor i ett geopolitiskt spel.
Society’s institutions and our everyday lives have, for a long time (and increasingly) been transforming from physical to digital, where services, interactions, and communication now transcend the two worlds, which are becoming ever more integrated. Interestingly (and unfortunately), public policy and leadership have not kept pace, which, in the long term, poses a threat to security and, by ext...
Countries across Europe are ramping up their efforts to adapt to the changing geopolitical climate, preparing for uncertainties that the near future might bring. Dependencies on non-European cloud providers are substantial and require proactive action both top-down and bottom-up. Top-down includes policy and legislation setting the stage by, for example, enabling demand and guiding buyers in ma...
How is open collaboration in open large language model (LLM) projects actually organized—and why does it matter? These are questions me, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding and Ben Burthenshaw map and address in a new paper just released on Arxiv.
Sverige och Europa är utmanade i en värld som geopolitiskt har förändrats markant på senare tid. Detta är särskilt tydligt om vi ser till vår digitala infrastruktur. Igår hade jag möjlighet att få kommentera utvecklingen utifrån den uppmärksamhet ämnet har fått i Danmark med särskilt fokus på molnfrågan.
Europe is at a crossroads where it has to choose whether to default to the red path of convenience towards increased dependencies or take the optional route towards strategic autonomy. In reality, this is not a decision that can be avoided. Recently, I had the opportunity to present a keynote at the OSPOs for EUROPE event (hosted by Dirk Schröder, Minister und Chef der Staatskanzlei des Landes ...
The world is turning in a strange way these days. Tariffs and sanctions are increasingly used to pressure and push agendas onto others. Digital sovereignty has, accordingly, singled up to a more general discourse and top of people’s minds. Sense of urgency is now moving beyond data sovereignty (and whether the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework gives any comfort or not) to the broader questi...