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 :)
While the practice and process for Open Source Software (OSS) development is quite explored in industry and general community contexts, less is known about how development is done on OSS in the public sector context, specifically those developed and governed by Public Sector Organizations (PSOs). To shed light on this, we looked at six mature examples of public sector OSS projects, identified b...
Getting an overview of Open Source Software (OSS) intake (including upstream dependencies) is a challenge as consumption is ever-growing. Each OSS component comes with a risk in terms of its ability to stay maintained long-term, with high quality and without interruption. Analyzing and monitoring the health of OSS intake can enable proactive management of potential risks, but it is also a mount...
We (Me, Georg Link, and Kevin Lumbard) explore how the health and sustainability of Open Source Software projects depends on the human activity invested by project maintainers and contributors. The activity invested is labeled Maintenance Labor and can, accordingly, originate from either the maintainers (Maintainer Labor) or the contributors (Contributor Labor). The latter includes the full spe...
As part of WASP-funded research project, we are investigating how game companies experiment with and evaluate new ideas, features, and changes throughout the development process. The goal is to be able to reject or accept any assumption about an idea as early as possible based on the experiment, for example, based on the technical and commercial viability among (potential) users. Earlier feedba...
Summary and main take-aways from a report commissioned by the European Commision and DIGIT mapping, where we mapped out how Public Sector Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are structured and organized. An OSPO may be compared to a center of competency and excellence driving organizational readyness related to OSS within or across a set of organizations. In the study, we looked at 12 cases acr...
Summary and main take-aways from report commissioned by the Danish Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen), where we examined how software reuse through Open Source Software (OSS) can be supported and realized through public policy and related support actions. In the report, we surveyed policies and practices related to software reuse, focusing on OSS, in 16 digitally mature co...
Öppna data är ett centralt verktyg för att motverka korruption inom offentlig upphandling. Ett viktigt ämne som diskuterades under gårdagens rundabordssamtal på Finansdepartementet inför framtagandet av en ny handlingsplan mot korruption och otillåten påverkan. Deltog gjorde ca 20-talet organisationer var samlade från myndighet, region, kommun, forskarsamhälle (inkl. RISE), civilsamhälle och sy...
Open Source Software (OSS) is catching on across industry verticals, so also in Automotive. Me and Astor Nummelin Carlberg recently published a vision paper outlining the current state and future potential for OSS in Automotive through in-depth interviews with leaders from the industry, including both international manufacturers and suppliers. The study was commissioned by the Eclipse Software ...
Here’s a brain dump with thoughts and reflections from two intense days of EU Open Source and policy discussions together with my great collegue Sachiko Muto in Brussels organized by the European Commision and OpenForum Europe respectively.
