The OSI submitted its feedback to the Open Digital Ecosystems strategy, which comes at a time when both Open Source communities and the European Union face unprecedented challenges.
The Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy is the follow up to the European Commission’s Open Source Strategy which expired in 2023, and comes at a time when the European Union (EU) and its member states are seeking greater digital sovereignty, and competitiveness.
Europe is uniquely positioned to benefit from Open Source: figures from GitHub show EU developers being the largest group of contributors to Open Source projects globally. In short, Europe has a hidden silicon valley in addition to its already flourishing Commercial Open Source sector. There is lots the EU can do to fully leverage the benefits of Open Source.