WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:29.980 Okay, welcome to our next keynote talk. We have Amreen and Omar and four of their colleagues. 00:29.980 --> 00:36.980 Going to give us an insight into our open source is helping to achieve the global sustainable development goals. 00:36.980 --> 00:38.980 And Amreen, you're starting. 00:38.980 --> 00:40.980 Thank you very much. 00:40.980 --> 00:46.980 So hi, everyone. My name is Amreen Taneda and the standards lead additional public goods alliance. 00:46.980 --> 00:56.980 And I'd like to warmly welcome you all to the session on scaling open source solutions to achieve the sustainable development goals, a global call to action. 00:56.980 --> 01:06.980 I'm also very excited to be here today with my brilliant colleague Omar Mosin, who is the open source coordinator from the UN Office of Digital and Emerging Technologies. 01:06.980 --> 01:15.980 And we're also joined here by some incredible members of the DPG community, who I'll be introducing very soon, just want to keep some suspense. 01:15.980 --> 01:20.980 So all right, so let's get started. 01:20.980 --> 01:27.980 So everyone here is passionate about open source technologies and you know they're impacting the world. 01:27.980 --> 01:36.980 But today we'd like to talk about this impact from the lens of the UN Sustainable Development goals and digital public goods, right. 01:36.980 --> 01:49.980 So picture this, a room full of world leaders from 193 countries, usually debating, but this time agreeing on something very big, right. 01:49.980 --> 02:04.980 They came together to address some of humanity's biggest challenges, like ending poverty, protecting the planet, ensuring everyone has access to good education, good health care services. 02:04.980 --> 02:15.980 And on these lines, you know, these, they came up with 17 key priorities, which is what we call as the Sustainable Development goals today. 02:15.980 --> 02:31.980 So these goals are almost like an ambitious to-do list that address challenges, like climate change, inequality, access to health care, and yes, even digital transformation, right. 02:31.980 --> 02:43.980 All right, so SDGs, you know, you can think of SDGs, something like there are almost like the world's open source roadmap for progress, right. 02:43.980 --> 02:51.980 Because no single entity really owns them, and everyone can contribute, and that is why we're here with you today. 02:51.980 --> 03:04.980 So essentially they're not just policies or nice to have, but they're almost like, they're almost like a global bug fix to systematic challenges that we have in the world, right. 03:04.980 --> 03:18.980 And just like an open source project, the success of this, it really depends on collaboration, on transparency, and interoperability, right. 03:18.980 --> 03:34.980 So as the digital public goods alliance, we are aligned with our members who are 45 in number, and, you know, they include national governments, open source organizations, as well as UN entities. 03:34.980 --> 03:47.980 And we share this common belief that attainment of these SDGs cannot and will not be possible without open technologies that truly drive digital cooperation. 03:47.980 --> 04:00.980 So that is the reason why we essentially focus on supporting the discovery, the development, as well as the investment in these open source technologies, that we call digital public goods. 04:00.980 --> 04:08.980 So to give everyone a glimpse of, you know, what DPGs really are, let me begin with a story. 04:08.980 --> 04:15.980 So we all remember COVID-19, right. It was something that very much affected our lives till a few years back. 04:15.980 --> 04:24.980 And in Sri Lanka, the first suspected case of COVID-19, it came up on 27 January 2020. 04:24.980 --> 04:33.980 And, you know, immediately local developers there, they got together to build a COVID-19 tracker on top of DHIS2. 04:33.980 --> 04:42.980 And DHIS2 is a health information management system and additional public goods being used by Sri Lanka. 04:43.980 --> 04:57.980 So they're tracker, you know, it focused on essentially registration and tracking of travelers who were, you know, coming from a lot of these regions with a high susceptibility of COVID-19 infection cases. 04:57.980 --> 05:06.980 And this particular solution, it was created just within two days of the first suspected COVID-19 case that was registered. 05:06.980 --> 05:23.980 And it was deployed in the airports of Sri Lanka just days later, right. But the speed and the efficiency with which Sri Lanka really responded to this crisis, that is not the most impressive part of this story. 05:23.980 --> 05:32.980 The most impressive part of this story is how quickly this invention was picked up and adapted by other countries across the world. 05:32.980 --> 05:47.980 So DHIS2, this is already being used by over 100 countries around the world. And that essentially meant, you know, that when Sri Lanka shared their user guides with the COVID-19 response team at DHIS2, 05:47.980 --> 05:57.980 they were almost in real time able to implement this in over 35 countries for surveillance purposes as well as for vaccination purposes. 05:57.980 --> 06:04.980 So these are, you know, the kind of opportunities that digital public goods unlock. 06:04.980 --> 06:13.980 Now I'd really like to share with you a little bit of, you know, where the concept and definition essentially comes from. 06:13.980 --> 06:23.980 So the DPG definition was laid down by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who delineates open source technologies as into five categories. 06:23.980 --> 06:32.980 So firstly, open source software, open data, open AI systems, open standards, and open content. 06:32.980 --> 06:40.980 So DPGs are, of course, open source, right. But they are so much more than that. 06:40.980 --> 06:49.980 We personally like to think of them as open source plus plus, right, because when we talk about a solution, that is additional public good. 06:50.980 --> 06:57.980 We, you know, envisage that solution to be advancing sustainable development goals. 06:57.980 --> 07:07.980 It should have an open source license, but it should be genuinely developed in a manner that allows for adaptation and reuse, right. 07:07.980 --> 07:18.980 And thirdly, it should be a solution that has taken steps in its design and its development to avoid and mitigate any kind of harm. 07:18.980 --> 07:32.980 Now something that really sets the term digital public goods apart is the definition that is brought to life through these nine indicators that you see on the screen here. 07:32.980 --> 07:43.980 And this essentially elaborates on, you know, what do know harm by design means for privacy, for security, for adherence to laws and best practices as well. 07:43.980 --> 07:52.980 And these nine indicators, they create a baseline of requirements for a solution that should be categorized as a digital public good, right. 07:52.980 --> 08:02.980 And one of the core functions of the alliances well is just to word and maintain the DPG definition, as well is its application and fact. 08:02.980 --> 08:10.980 Now because I'm the DPG standards lead, I can stand here and talk for hours about the importance of every indicator. 08:10.980 --> 08:19.980 But I won't want to bore you. And so in the interest of time, we have a QR code here, just please feel free to scan that and you'll find the entire standard there. 08:19.980 --> 08:26.980 But I'd like to talk to you today about a few key indicators as a part of this DPG standard. 08:26.980 --> 08:27.980 All right. 08:27.980 --> 08:33.980 So the first one that I'd like to cover is SDG relevance, right. 08:33.980 --> 08:46.980 Now this, of course, like I mentioned, is a very broad topic, right, because a solution that that does any type of good for the society will probably fall under the category of one SDG or another, right. 08:46.980 --> 08:56.980 So what we look for here is essentially whether a solution has a clear contribution to one or more sustainable development goals. 08:56.980 --> 09:05.980 You know, example universal access to healthcare services or perhaps, you know, it could be support research and vaccinations or medications. 09:05.980 --> 09:18.980 And as a part of your application, you know, you have to provide to us how you think that this, you know, your solution can actually contribute towards advancing a particular SDG. 09:18.980 --> 09:21.980 So that is what indicator one is all about. 09:21.980 --> 09:25.980 Now I'd like to talk with you about indicator four. 09:25.980 --> 09:28.980 This is platform independence. 09:28.980 --> 09:36.980 This one's a bit tricky, right, because what this means is that essentially we prefer for everything to be open source. 09:36.980 --> 09:41.980 But if for example, let's say your solution has a proprietary component, right. 09:41.980 --> 09:43.980 Example Google Maps Engine. 09:43.980 --> 09:50.980 And if you provide us an open source alternative to go along with that alongside your solution, then it's all right. 09:50.980 --> 10:00.980 But the only caveat here is that it should be easy for implementers to switch different providers or vendors, right. 10:00.980 --> 10:04.980 And the whole idea behind this is that vendor lock in should be avoided, right. 10:04.980 --> 10:11.980 So that is the main consideration that we have behind this particular indicator. 10:11.980 --> 10:17.980 Now moving on to indicator number seven, which is privacy and applicable laws. 10:17.980 --> 10:20.980 So we've recently updated this indicator. 10:20.980 --> 10:29.980 And you know, applicants are now required to sort of share whether they comply to some of the best privacy practices that we have considered. 10:29.980 --> 10:33.980 Now is baseline requirements for qualification as a digital public good. 10:33.980 --> 10:36.980 So what do these requirements look like? 10:36.980 --> 10:40.980 So do you have data minimization practices as a part of your solution? 10:40.980 --> 10:46.980 You know, what are the user consent mechanisms that you have in terms of handling PI data? 10:46.980 --> 10:53.980 Whether there is any, whether there's any sort of adherence to privacy by design principles as a part of your solution. 10:53.980 --> 10:58.980 So these are some of the considerations that we want you to think about. 10:58.980 --> 11:09.980 And you can, you know, prove this by essentially providing us a terms of use or a particular privacy policy that specifically addresses these components as well, right. 11:09.980 --> 11:16.980 And in addition to this, we will also be soon coming up with an extra of best privacy practices. 11:16.980 --> 11:20.980 You know, that DPGs will be highly encouraged to follow. 11:20.980 --> 11:25.980 That will be almost like a notch above what we have is the baseline requirements. 11:25.980 --> 11:27.980 So to speak, right. 11:27.980 --> 11:33.980 Now, lastly, what I would like to talk about is indicator number eight. 11:33.980 --> 11:37.980 So this is standards and best practices, right. 11:37.980 --> 11:48.980 Very simply put, essentially any standards or best practices that apply to the solution in which, you know, that essentially apply to the industry in which your solution belongs. 11:48.980 --> 11:50.980 You should be adhering to that. 11:50.980 --> 11:55.980 So this can be, you know, any of the best practices in standards that you see here on screen. 11:55.980 --> 11:59.980 It can be any sort of web standards by W3C. 11:59.980 --> 12:03.980 It can be the GTSS for public transport. 12:03.980 --> 12:08.980 It can be, you know, even open contracting standard for fiscal transparency. 12:08.980 --> 12:10.980 So the list goes on essentially. 12:10.980 --> 12:11.980 And a fun fact. 12:11.980 --> 12:15.980 The DPG standard is an open standard in and of itself. 12:15.980 --> 12:19.980 So we always looking for community input to make this standard better. 12:19.980 --> 12:25.980 And we are in fact soon going to be working on fine-tuning this particular indicator of the standard. 12:25.980 --> 12:33.980 So if you are interested in, you know, the standard development process or this side of, you know, the open source ecosystem. 12:33.980 --> 12:37.980 Please feel free to reach out to me after this talk. 12:37.980 --> 12:41.980 And we can discuss on how we can incorporate your inputs into this. 12:41.980 --> 12:42.980 All right. 12:42.980 --> 12:51.980 So on this note, I will hand it over to my colleague Omar from, you know, the UN office of emerging additional technologies. 12:51.980 --> 12:57.980 To share more about what is really happening in the United Nations to accelerate the DPG adoption. 12:57.980 --> 13:00.980 And as well as scaling open source solutions in general. 13:00.980 --> 13:02.980 So over to you, Omar. 13:02.980 --> 13:04.980 Thank you. 13:09.980 --> 13:11.980 Good morning, everyone. 13:11.980 --> 13:13.980 My name is Omar. 13:13.980 --> 13:16.980 I work for the UN office for digital emerging technologies. 13:16.980 --> 13:19.980 And I'm the UN open source coordinator. 13:19.980 --> 13:21.980 It's so cool to see you all. 13:21.980 --> 13:27.980 And here's just to give you a bit of a story of what we, how we got to this as DG. 13:27.980 --> 13:31.980 So it goes back to 1999. 13:31.980 --> 13:34.980 So I'm going to start back back. 13:34.980 --> 13:40.980 At the time, the Secretary General of the UN, coffee and I'm sure you heard of him. 13:40.980 --> 13:46.980 While we're entering a new millennium, they said, okay, we have to do things differently. 13:46.980 --> 13:48.980 This is the 2000s. 13:48.980 --> 13:51.980 We cannot do the same business as before. 13:51.980 --> 13:53.980 He created these things here. 13:53.980 --> 13:54.980 The eight. 13:54.980 --> 13:56.980 I don't know if you've ever seen those. 13:56.980 --> 13:59.980 Raise your hand if you've ever seen the millennium development goals. 13:59.980 --> 14:01.980 Ah, not bad. 14:01.980 --> 14:05.980 So why they were cool for many reasons. 14:05.980 --> 14:12.980 Before every country has their own priorities. 14:12.980 --> 14:15.980 Some would have different project program. 14:15.980 --> 14:18.980 And then some would give a different name. 14:18.980 --> 14:21.980 It was the first time that we as world came up together and said, 14:21.980 --> 14:28.980 There's eight goals we need to care about about reducing child mortality, 14:28.980 --> 14:30.980 about improving maternal health. 14:30.980 --> 14:33.980 And it was a clear framework. 14:33.980 --> 14:36.980 And the coolest thing about that is that they said two, two, three things. 14:36.980 --> 14:39.980 They said, they are clear metrics. 14:39.980 --> 14:41.980 We're going to see if we're reaching this goal. 14:41.980 --> 14:44.980 So it's not just a main, main, big open things. 14:44.980 --> 14:48.980 It's like we're going to measure and every country will tell us where they're doing. 14:48.980 --> 14:51.980 And the second thing is that it was only 15 years. 14:51.980 --> 14:54.980 And he said, in 2015, we're going to stop that. 14:54.980 --> 14:55.980 And I'm happy. 14:55.980 --> 15:00.980 At the end of the 15 years, 2015, three out of the eight goals were achieved, 15:00.980 --> 15:02.980 which is pretty huge. 15:02.980 --> 15:06.980 And then 2015, member state, your government, my government, 15:06.980 --> 15:09.980 everybody's government said, we like it. 15:09.980 --> 15:10.980 This is really cool. 15:10.980 --> 15:11.980 Let's do more. 15:11.980 --> 15:12.980 Let's see. 15:12.980 --> 15:15.980 And this is what they come up with the sustainable development goals 15:15.980 --> 15:17.980 that I'm reading was talking about earlier. 15:17.980 --> 15:19.980 That was approved in 2015. 15:19.980 --> 15:24.980 How many SDGs are there? 15:24.980 --> 15:26.980 I'm reading at it in the slide. 15:26.980 --> 15:28.980 And she destroyed my quiz. 15:28.980 --> 15:30.980 Yes, the 17 goals that came up. 15:30.980 --> 15:32.980 So the same logic here. 15:32.980 --> 15:35.980 So we have only 15 years. 15:35.980 --> 15:38.980 Now we're starting the third term. 15:38.980 --> 15:39.980 Five years left. 15:39.980 --> 15:41.980 They're finishing in 2030. 15:41.980 --> 15:45.980 So this is really is the time where we have to double down on that. 15:45.980 --> 15:48.980 But the coolest thing about that is that member state, when they said, 15:48.980 --> 15:52.980 we said, this thing, they said, to achieve them, 15:52.980 --> 15:56.980 technology is the main mean we will get there. 15:56.980 --> 15:58.980 We will not get there, otherwise. 15:58.980 --> 16:02.980 But then there are policy, there's investment, there's government support. 16:02.980 --> 16:06.980 There's many things, but the front and center is technology. 16:06.980 --> 16:10.980 And as now we're saying even more, is not only technology, 16:10.980 --> 16:12.980 is open source. 16:12.980 --> 16:18.980 Open source for us is the only way we can get everybody to work together. 16:18.980 --> 16:20.980 We will not achieve that alone. 16:20.980 --> 16:24.980 No one government, no one entity, no one company, 16:24.980 --> 16:28.980 nobody will achieve this sustainable development goals on their own. 16:28.980 --> 16:31.980 And how to work together is open source. 16:31.980 --> 16:35.980 Like you guys, open source, folks, you've been showing us the way. 16:35.980 --> 16:43.980 Like nobody at the UN, like when they talk about collaborating among countries and 16:43.980 --> 16:47.980 stuff, they are just not even close to what you guys achieve every day, 16:47.980 --> 16:50.980 where you have all of you working together. 16:50.980 --> 16:54.980 Thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of strangers who never met 16:54.980 --> 16:58.980 each other, probably would never meet each other, working together. 16:58.980 --> 17:01.980 That is what we're trying to leverage. 17:01.980 --> 17:06.980 That is the digital champion that the Secretary General was talking about, 17:06.980 --> 17:08.980 that we would love to raise. 17:08.980 --> 17:12.980 Again, why open source for us? 17:12.980 --> 17:17.980 Transparency, it's a bit the heart of what we do us at the UN. 17:17.980 --> 17:19.980 We love transparency. 17:19.980 --> 17:24.980 And you guys, I think, more transparent than open source, you can find. 17:24.980 --> 17:29.980 Community that again, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people 17:29.980 --> 17:34.980 collaborating together towards one goal that is 100% aligned with what we want. 17:34.980 --> 17:38.980 Innovation, it always coming from open sources, never coming from the big tech, 17:38.980 --> 17:44.980 whatever how much money they have, you will always be more innovative than them. 17:44.980 --> 17:47.980 Sustainability, cost efficiency, yeah. 17:47.980 --> 17:52.980 To achieve the SDG, we're talking to communities, to countries, to groups of people 17:52.980 --> 17:55.980 who can not afford to pay big licenses. 17:55.980 --> 18:00.980 Again, open source for us is really all these six goals. 18:00.980 --> 18:04.980 This six ideals is really what we're striving for. 18:04.980 --> 18:09.980 But how do you go about changing an organization of 60,000 people? 18:09.980 --> 18:12.980 By the way, this is probably the first or second time my life. 18:12.980 --> 18:16.980 I stand in front of a crowd where everybody believes in open source. 18:16.980 --> 18:21.980 Raise your hand if you don't believe in open source? 18:21.980 --> 18:26.980 Yeah, good you didn't answer because you'll be escorted out of the room by security. 18:26.980 --> 18:28.980 That was a trap. 18:28.980 --> 18:33.980 So every time I stand from any crowd at the UN and I talk about open source, 18:33.980 --> 18:35.980 people look at me like I'm an alien. 18:35.980 --> 18:39.980 And this is why we started with this strategy. 18:39.980 --> 18:42.980 So our strategy was based on this three pillar. 18:42.980 --> 18:46.980 First is policy, this is boring, but it's important. 18:46.980 --> 18:50.980 That's the lawyers that's making sure that you won't get in trouble if you open source. 18:50.980 --> 18:52.980 Because you want to do it the right way. 18:52.980 --> 18:54.980 So we did a lot of work on policy. 18:54.980 --> 18:58.980 And then the second thing is I'm here to talk to you about some of the stuff. 18:58.980 --> 18:59.980 It is culture change. 18:59.980 --> 19:08.980 We want to change the culture of a big massive organization where at the heart of it is not open is closed. 19:08.980 --> 19:10.980 It's not in our DNA. 19:10.980 --> 19:13.980 In our DNA, as any public administration is closed, 19:13.980 --> 19:18.980 every time I talk to somebody they say, but we can open is confidential. 19:18.980 --> 19:19.980 No, it's not. 19:19.980 --> 19:22.980 So how to go about changing the culture. 19:22.980 --> 19:24.980 And then the third one is technology. 19:24.980 --> 19:29.980 So here again, the culture and we did a couple of cool stuff. 19:29.980 --> 19:33.980 One of the things we did is called mind the open source gap. 19:33.980 --> 19:38.980 So we just call UN stuff and say everybody who wants to list, 19:38.980 --> 19:41.980 we do lectures on open source. 19:42.980 --> 19:44.980 Well, it's three hours. 19:44.980 --> 19:45.980 Do you want to come? 19:45.980 --> 19:48.980 And we thought there will have 10, 20 people now. 19:48.980 --> 19:50.980 We're reaching around 600 people who come. 19:50.980 --> 19:54.980 And then we got all these names, all these big organization come. 19:54.980 --> 19:56.980 Tell us what works, what doesn't work. 19:56.980 --> 20:01.980 We had Boris was one of those, right? 20:01.980 --> 20:02.980 Yes. 20:02.980 --> 20:07.980 Boris from Eclipse Foundation who give an amazing talk by the way. 20:08.980 --> 20:17.980 Another thing that we did that was really cool is we created this community of practice. 20:17.980 --> 20:24.980 We just say, hey, again, if I stop randomly-handred people at the door of the UN, 20:24.980 --> 20:26.980 I say, do you like open source? 20:26.980 --> 20:29.980 I will have 99 who would not, I don't know about it or like, 20:29.980 --> 20:31.980 but I will have that 1% who would like it. 20:31.980 --> 20:36.980 So we created a community of those 1% and then we start talking with each other. 20:36.980 --> 20:38.980 And we start identifying each other. 20:38.980 --> 20:40.980 And this has been a really big success. 20:40.980 --> 20:44.980 And then every two weeks we do a little newsletter, call it unlocked. 20:44.980 --> 20:52.980 And then once a month, we do a call of all the open source heroes that we had identified. 20:52.980 --> 20:56.980 Now we are at almost 500 people in our community. 20:56.980 --> 20:58.980 So slowly it is starting. 20:58.980 --> 21:02.980 We do hackatons, that's pretty cool. 21:02.980 --> 21:04.980 This is open source software for SDG, 21:04.980 --> 21:07.980 where we do hackathon with other UN entities. 21:07.980 --> 21:10.980 This has been a big success. 21:10.980 --> 21:12.980 We open, please check it out. 21:12.980 --> 21:15.980 All of you, this is virtual. 21:15.980 --> 21:18.980 You don't have not in the room where we pick an SDG, 21:18.980 --> 21:22.980 like SDG 5, gender equality or SDG 4 education. 21:22.980 --> 21:24.980 And we put problems, real life problems, 21:24.980 --> 21:27.980 and say, hey world, help us solve them. 21:27.980 --> 21:30.980 And we get some incredible, incredible solution. 21:30.980 --> 21:32.980 I just want to, now that we're talking about, 21:32.980 --> 21:34.980 even example, I wasn't supposed to talk about, 21:34.980 --> 21:36.980 this came to mind now. 21:36.980 --> 21:39.980 We did, the first one was SDG 4 about education. 21:39.980 --> 21:42.980 And we say, hey world, help us fix model. 21:42.980 --> 21:45.980 There's two problems we are facing with model in, 21:45.980 --> 21:48.980 called during COVID time, is the mobile app. 21:48.980 --> 21:54.980 And then low latency in area where there's not a great connectivity. 21:54.980 --> 21:56.980 We did that with model. 21:56.980 --> 21:58.980 And we got some incredible solutions. 21:58.980 --> 22:02.980 And then we had a jury to, to, to, to, to, to great them. 22:02.980 --> 22:08.980 The winner was an inspector in the Ministry of Education of, 22:08.980 --> 22:12.980 of, of code devour, who built this incredible module 22:12.980 --> 22:16.980 that model founder CEO was there. 22:16.980 --> 22:18.980 He was so impressed with that. 22:18.980 --> 22:21.980 Just to tell you like the open source, 22:21.980 --> 22:24.980 there's like, there was, for us, this big moment where like, 22:24.980 --> 22:27.980 wow, open source is in places you would not exist. 22:27.980 --> 22:30.980 And he built the module that helped the whole, 22:30.980 --> 22:34.980 the Ministry is in code devour to use model during the, 22:34.980 --> 22:36.980 the COVID pandemic. 22:36.980 --> 22:39.980 This is another thing great that we did, that's my t-shirt. 22:39.980 --> 22:41.980 So that's reboot the earth. 22:41.980 --> 22:44.980 So we do together with digital public good alliance and Salesforce, 22:44.980 --> 22:48.980 where we here focus on, we do hackatons for climate change. 22:48.980 --> 22:49.980 Please also look it up. 22:49.980 --> 22:52.980 Next year we're going to do a lot more locations. 22:52.980 --> 22:54.980 So probably, we won't be in Brussels, sorry. 22:54.980 --> 22:58.980 We'll be in Rome, but one leg of it is also virtual, 22:58.980 --> 23:00.980 where people can be anywhere in the world. 23:00.980 --> 23:04.980 So here, another thing quickly to talk about, 23:04.980 --> 23:06.980 we brought together the agencies. 23:06.980 --> 23:11.980 So we said, again, pure open source philosophy is that, 23:11.980 --> 23:13.980 nobody will get there alone. 23:13.980 --> 23:16.980 So we created a group with all the UN agencies and we said, 23:16.980 --> 23:21.980 let's put our hands together and let's do stuff collaboratively. 23:21.980 --> 23:26.980 And then we said, a group, please take care of building a software catalog for us. 23:26.980 --> 23:29.980 Please a group take care of building the policy, 23:29.980 --> 23:32.980 a group for the license, a group for the platform, 23:32.980 --> 23:34.980 and one for the capacity building. 23:34.980 --> 23:38.980 So now, thanks to this work, we have a UN open source catalog, 23:38.980 --> 23:40.980 UN open source repository. 23:40.980 --> 23:44.980 We have GitLab here with us to help us through that process. 23:44.980 --> 23:48.980 We have license and so on. 23:48.980 --> 23:52.980 Let me move fast. 23:52.980 --> 23:55.980 So this is something that we are working on. 23:55.980 --> 23:57.980 Please, please, check it out. 23:57.980 --> 23:59.980 It's going out next month. 23:59.980 --> 24:01.980 It's called the UN open source portal. 24:01.980 --> 24:05.980 Here, this is really cool because in everywhere we go people like you, 24:05.980 --> 24:07.980 always say, I want to help the UN. 24:07.980 --> 24:10.980 I want to work on some of this SDG. 24:10.980 --> 24:13.980 Where shall I start? Where should I go? 24:13.980 --> 24:15.980 So we're launching this. 24:15.980 --> 24:19.980 We're going to be open source that you end.org. 24:19.980 --> 24:21.980 Once again, open source that you end.org, 24:21.980 --> 24:24.980 that's going to be the link where you can come. 24:24.980 --> 24:28.980 Find all the project that the UN is working on that are open source. 24:28.980 --> 24:31.980 And we're going to tell you which project we need your help, 24:31.980 --> 24:35.980 which of these software of these solutions we want people to help us. 24:35.980 --> 24:37.980 So this is coming your way soon. 24:37.980 --> 24:41.980 And another one about this big conference that we're going to see. 24:41.980 --> 24:44.980 Raise your hand if you've been to Ospo for good last year. 24:44.980 --> 24:49.980 Oh, you were there? Yeah, you were there. 24:49.980 --> 24:53.980 So this is happening at the UN Headquarter. 24:53.980 --> 24:55.980 Also this year we're going to make it bigger. 24:55.980 --> 24:58.980 We love for all of you to attend. 24:58.980 --> 25:00.980 And here really is a global gathering. 25:00.980 --> 25:04.980 We try to bring in government from north south from all countries. 25:04.980 --> 25:07.980 Try to bring in players from all countries. 25:07.980 --> 25:11.980 So Ospo for good is our Ruth is here. 25:11.980 --> 25:13.980 She also was one of the speakers of last year. 25:13.980 --> 25:16.980 Please come. 25:16.980 --> 25:18.980 Keep. 25:18.980 --> 25:19.980 Check it. 25:19.980 --> 25:21.980 It's going to be in June and we'd love for all of you. 25:21.980 --> 25:24.980 But and then we do a lot of we go to conferences and so on. 25:24.980 --> 25:26.980 I stop here. 25:26.980 --> 25:29.980 I'll be around happy to answer all your questions after that. 25:29.980 --> 25:34.980 So this is some of the work we do at the UN and trying to get you all to please. 25:34.980 --> 25:35.980 Please. 25:35.980 --> 25:41.980 The SDG is not a one person or one organization to fix it is all of us. 25:42.980 --> 25:47.980 When they created the SDG the first time was like this is a problem for everybody to solve. 25:47.980 --> 25:51.980 And we believe that open source is the main way we can get there. 25:51.980 --> 25:52.980 Thank you. 25:58.980 --> 25:59.980 Wow. 25:59.980 --> 26:05.980 Thank you so much Omar for that incredible and inspiring journey throughout. 26:05.980 --> 26:09.980 In terms of like the amazing work that's happening for scaling open source solutions 26:09.980 --> 26:12.980 and also digital public goods are the United Nations. 26:12.980 --> 26:16.980 And now I would like to actually bring this conversation to life 26:16.980 --> 26:20.980 by sharing some of the real world examples of you know the important work 26:20.980 --> 26:22.980 that digital public goods are doing. 26:22.980 --> 26:27.980 And so for that I would like to begin with some announcements. 26:27.980 --> 26:29.980 Okay. 26:29.980 --> 26:35.980 So I'm very excited to share with you today that two very well open source 26:36.980 --> 26:42.980 projects that are almost like a household name that you might not just be aware of 26:42.980 --> 26:46.980 but would be using in your daily lives as well. 26:46.980 --> 26:49.980 Have recently become digital public goods. 26:49.980 --> 26:54.980 And with that I would like to invite on stage Fred Rikke from Wikimedia 26:54.980 --> 26:58.980 to please share her thoughts in this. 26:59.980 --> 27:02.980 Hi. 27:02.980 --> 27:04.980 Thank you so much. 27:04.980 --> 27:11.980 So I'm happy to present Wikipedia having passed the task of being a digital public 27:11.980 --> 27:12.980 good. 27:12.980 --> 27:13.980 That's so cool. 27:13.980 --> 27:21.980 And I present you with our closely or this is our model in a way. 27:21.980 --> 27:27.980 Our global community and I bet a lot of you together with us have achieved a lot 27:27.980 --> 27:30.980 during the last 20 years. 27:30.980 --> 27:35.980 Wikipedia stands is the world's largest open knowledge platform. 27:35.980 --> 27:42.980 We have providing free accessible and very viable information to people worldwide. 27:42.980 --> 27:46.980 Both it's collaborative model of course it has. 27:46.980 --> 27:52.980 It is bridging knowledge gaps fostering inclusivity and ensuring that high quality 27:53.980 --> 27:58.980 educational resources are available to all. 27:58.980 --> 28:02.980 So Wikipedia helps to achieve a lot of goals. 28:02.980 --> 28:10.980 I think we applied for a specifically goal for five and 16 and 17 and then 28:10.980 --> 28:15.980 to 10 we are contributing as well. 28:15.980 --> 28:22.980 We are living deeper Wikipedia is specifically a global educational tool. 28:22.980 --> 28:30.980 It is promoting lifelong learning for everyone regardless of financial or geographical 28:30.980 --> 28:31.980 barriers. 28:31.980 --> 28:38.980 It is used in schools and universities and in continuous learning projects worldwide. 28:39.980 --> 28:46.980 We have initiatives such as wiki project for climate change and wiki project 28:46.980 --> 28:54.980 environment which is contributing to learning about climate change and environmental issues 28:54.980 --> 29:00.980 that's also contributing to SIG's 13 and 15. 29:00.980 --> 29:03.980 We work on gender equality. 29:03.980 --> 29:09.980 Humanities strive to ensure educational equity between gender. 29:09.980 --> 29:13.980 We are not perfect of course but a lot of activities 29:13.980 --> 29:18.980 strive for mitigating gender bias on our platforms. 29:18.980 --> 29:26.980 We want to encourage women to contribute and we want to diversify the perspectives 29:26.980 --> 29:32.980 that are represented in the global knowledge. 29:33.980 --> 29:41.980 We do have a reduced Wikipedia is accessible in cities and in remote areas. 29:41.980 --> 29:46.980 That's reducing inequalities to SIG's 10. 29:46.980 --> 29:55.980 We have wiki kibics for schools for example providing offline content for regions with limited connectivity. 29:56.980 --> 30:05.980 We are also contributing to SIG's 16 because volunteers have set up a well-knit system 30:05.980 --> 30:12.980 to ensure quality of information and increasingly AI-driven information landscape 30:12.980 --> 30:21.980 that's enhancing transparency and we hope to find this information. 30:21.980 --> 30:24.980 This is also dear to my heart. 30:24.980 --> 30:30.980 We are supporting collaborations with institutions and governments. 30:30.980 --> 30:33.980 I can't get further into this. 30:33.980 --> 30:40.980 This is a talk for itself to bridge digital divides and enhance accessibility. 30:40.980 --> 30:49.980 We provide content in over 320 languages including minority languages and indigenous languages. 30:49.980 --> 30:57.980 We have the Wagyu language on board so very rare languages are not only digitally documented and preserved, 30:57.980 --> 31:03.980 but also brought further because you can speak them again. 31:03.980 --> 31:13.980 They play with so Wikipedia plays a key role in preserving linguistic and cultural diversity. 31:13.980 --> 31:23.980 So my call to action is Wikipedia is a force for positive change in education and transparency and sustainability. 31:23.980 --> 31:29.980 You can contribute of course everyone can contribute because it's open source, edit Wikipedia. 31:29.980 --> 31:40.980 Support wiki media projects advocate for open knowledge because knowledge is a key driver for sustainable development. 31:40.980 --> 31:43.980 This is also key for democratic systems. 31:43.980 --> 31:49.980 You can save the planet and strengthen democracy a little more with every single edit. 31:49.980 --> 31:51.980 So that's easy. 31:51.980 --> 31:52.980 See you all there. 31:52.980 --> 31:54.980 Thank you very much. 31:58.980 --> 32:00.980 Thank you very much, Rodrigo. 32:00.980 --> 32:04.980 For that inspiring talk, we're very excited to have you as a digital public good. 32:04.980 --> 32:08.980 And now for the second announcement. 32:08.980 --> 32:16.980 All right, so we're very excited to welcome to the DPG community, the tour browser, which is now a digital public good. 32:16.980 --> 32:18.980 So I'd like to welcome Alex. 32:24.980 --> 32:25.980 Thank you very much. 32:25.980 --> 32:26.980 It's great to be back here in Brussels. 32:26.980 --> 32:27.980 My name is Alex. 32:27.980 --> 32:33.980 I'm heading up towards network team where the team responsible for developing sort of the low level components of the stack. 32:33.980 --> 32:35.980 And the tour is much more than that. 32:35.980 --> 32:38.980 We are an American based nonprofit. 32:38.980 --> 32:41.980 The big end user product we have is Tor browser. 32:41.980 --> 32:43.980 Does anybody in here use Tor browser? 32:43.980 --> 32:45.980 Okay, we have quite a few people there. 32:45.980 --> 32:47.980 Tor browser has been recognized as a digital public good. 32:47.980 --> 32:49.980 That's something we are incredibly proud of. 32:49.980 --> 32:52.980 But Tor browser is just one thing. 32:52.980 --> 32:54.980 We also have a number of different communities. 32:54.980 --> 33:00.980 We are part of the free software community that we gather here and celebrate in these rooms. 33:00.980 --> 33:05.980 But we also have a huge amount of people going out and doing training and doing translations. 33:05.980 --> 33:09.980 We have massive amount of relay operators who run the tour network. 33:09.980 --> 33:12.980 Do we have any relay operators in here? 33:12.980 --> 33:13.980 We have a couple. 33:13.980 --> 33:17.980 Otherwise if you have server capacity, you should totally contribute to the tour network. 33:17.980 --> 33:20.980 In addition to the anti censorship and the community part. 33:20.980 --> 33:22.980 Sorry, the anonymity and the community part. 33:22.980 --> 33:25.980 We also do a significant amount of anti censorship work. 33:25.980 --> 33:27.980 We do see all around the world. 33:27.980 --> 33:32.980 There's very censorship events where people are prohibited access to online goods. 33:32.980 --> 33:37.980 That is something that we have dedicated team working around the clock to figure out different ways to 33:37.980 --> 33:41.980 Prope the networks, different ways to circumvent these censorship situations. 33:41.980 --> 33:44.980 We are with all of this in mind. 33:44.980 --> 33:49.980 We believe this is supporting like Tor's vision of having digital browser as a digital public good. 33:49.980 --> 33:55.980 One of these things that we have recently started working on a lot is we followed the meme of trying to rewrite things 33:55.980 --> 33:56.980 and rust. 33:56.980 --> 34:02.980 So a big thing that we are trying to do now is to take the tour code base and turn it into an embeddable library 34:02.980 --> 34:05.980 where you guys who are working on different projects. 34:05.980 --> 34:10.980 If you have a need for an anti censorship or anonymity technology, you will be able to embed these things 34:10.980 --> 34:15.980 into your application and gain different kinds of protection mechanisms for your users. 34:15.980 --> 34:23.980 We see as an important component because one of these things is that we lower the access barrier for the system. 34:23.980 --> 34:28.980 There exist alternatives and proprietary systems that are similar to Tor. 34:28.980 --> 34:33.980 Many of them, many of you will probably also be out and have access to VPN subscriptions and so on. 34:33.980 --> 34:38.980 But one of the big things there is that it requires a certain amount of privilege to be able to pay a few bucks each month 34:38.980 --> 34:40.980 to be able to access these services. 34:40.980 --> 34:42.980 Tor is freely available for everyone. 34:42.980 --> 34:45.980 It will continue to be that for as long as we are doing it. 34:45.980 --> 34:51.980 And one of these things that we do a lot of is to try to make sure that it is sort of safe to use and available. 34:51.980 --> 34:58.980 When we look at the SDGs that we have talked about today, one of these things that I thought was really good previously in the presentation 34:58.980 --> 35:01.980 was this concept of having it as a judulist that you could sort of look at. 35:01.980 --> 35:07.980 One of these things that we of course look at is 9C which is access to information and communication technology. 35:07.980 --> 35:13.980 A lot of people around you will have access to internet but doesn't have the same kind of privilege that we have that when we go online. 35:13.980 --> 35:18.980 We generally have access to read news that are both good and bad about the governments that we are living in. 35:18.980 --> 35:26.980 The people who don't have access to that and is of utmost importance that we continue to have access to these tools so that people can recommend these things. 35:26.980 --> 35:33.980 In addition to that, we also have 1610 which is a public access to information and protection of fundamental freedoms. 35:33.980 --> 35:35.980 We believe the towards contributing there. 35:35.980 --> 35:38.980 But we also have to look a little bit outside of the box. 35:38.980 --> 35:44.980 We have a lot of things going on in the world right now where there's people who have who is losing access to basic health care. 35:44.980 --> 35:49.980 Like a reproductive health is under attack, we see trans health is under attack. 35:49.980 --> 35:54.980 All of these things are something where we believe the towards contributing to that people have access to these information. 35:54.980 --> 36:00.980 But also that they have access to tools such as onion services where they can publish information as well in a safe manner. 36:00.980 --> 36:10.980 If I am to follow the previous speaker and give sort of a call to action, one of the extremely critical things that you guys in here can help with your many of you will be very technical. 36:10.980 --> 36:15.980 You can help us find bucks, you can help us debug things, you can help operate relays and so on. 36:15.980 --> 36:21.980 But if we need to look at a bit of a bigger picture with 70 people in the organization right now working for tour. 36:21.980 --> 36:27.980 And very, very critical thing for us is that we have access to steady and stable funding sources. 36:27.980 --> 36:31.980 And that goes both from the private sector but also from governments, right. 36:31.980 --> 36:36.980 It is critical that we are able to hire skilled people and have them work on these things for longer times. 36:36.980 --> 36:37.980 Thank you. 36:37.980 --> 36:42.980 Thank you very much, Alex. 36:42.980 --> 36:46.980 Very excited to have the tour browser as a digital public good. 36:46.980 --> 36:54.980 And now I would like to introduce Pierre Slamic from Open Food Facts, which is also now a digital public good. 36:54.980 --> 36:58.980 To share more about how you are actually working on transforming and achieving SDGs. 36:58.980 --> 36:59.980 So go for it. 36:59.980 --> 37:00.980 Thank you so much. 37:01.980 --> 37:16.980 It's good to be back in Brussels by show of hands who has already used Nutri score to buy a product to assess which products to buy. 37:16.980 --> 37:20.980 Okay, quite a few people by show of hands. 37:20.980 --> 37:23.980 Do any people know already about open food facts? 37:23.980 --> 37:26.980 Okay, a few hands as well. 37:26.980 --> 37:33.980 So open food facts and we are very honored to be named the digital public good alongside Wikipedia. 37:33.980 --> 37:38.980 We've been nicknamed by the media, the Wikipedia of food. 37:38.980 --> 37:48.980 And it's all about collecting information to a low consumers to transform the food system. 37:48.980 --> 37:57.980 Or mission is all about reducing the impacts of the food system on health and the planet everywhere in the world. 37:57.980 --> 38:07.980 So collecting information as consumers and turning it into actionable insights that allow you to reduce your consumption. 38:07.980 --> 38:17.980 But also a low producers to improve their products and governments to take action. 38:18.980 --> 38:25.980 We are helping tackle UN SDG goal free and 13 so good health and well-being. 38:25.980 --> 38:33.980 And how do we do that? We do that through promoting responsible consumption and production. 38:33.980 --> 38:38.980 And the impact on food on health is absolutely massive. 38:38.980 --> 38:42.980 We have a global epidemic of obesity in Europe. 38:42.980 --> 38:51.980 The OECD estimates that 3% of the GDP is wiped by overweight and obesity consequences. 38:51.980 --> 39:00.980 Globally, food accounts for one third of carbon emission and 70% of the drinking water consumption. 39:01.980 --> 39:05.980 So the obvious is that it's urgent to act. 39:05.980 --> 39:10.980 And we do that by empowering citizens to have an impact. 39:10.980 --> 39:13.980 It's overwhelming to transform the food system. 39:13.980 --> 39:21.980 But we say if we get together, we should not panic and we should organize to have an impact on our health and the food system. 39:21.980 --> 39:26.980 So basically, open food fact is a database and it's also a mobile app. 39:26.980 --> 39:32.980 You can scan any food to see its impact on the planet and yourself and your health. 39:32.980 --> 39:43.980 And you have a power if a product in your country is not there to take a few photos and unlock the scores like Nutri score and Ecos score. 39:43.980 --> 39:51.980 And we need Nutri score. We showed that we can take a score from research paper. 39:51.980 --> 39:58.980 We like collaborating with scientists and turn it into something that everyone can benefit from. 39:58.980 --> 40:06.980 So we go from digital to policy by creating API ecosystems around the Nutri score promoting it. 40:06.980 --> 40:15.980 And eventually it got signed into French loads, no in seven countries and the nice thing is that we have a systemic impact. 40:15.980 --> 40:23.980 No producers are starting to reformulate and improve their products for everyone, even people who don't use open food facts. 40:23.980 --> 40:28.980 And we are starting to do the same with the environment with Ecos score. 40:28.980 --> 40:31.980 So why open? Obviously it's in the name. 40:31.980 --> 40:38.980 But also in the specific topic of food just like for Wikipedia, it allows to build trust. 40:38.980 --> 40:43.980 You wouldn't trust a food product without an ingredient list. 40:43.980 --> 40:53.980 It also allows as was said before to go faster in development to partner more easily with producers, with government and overorganization, 40:53.980 --> 40:57.980 we're supported for instance by the French government on Nutri score. 40:57.980 --> 41:05.980 And it also allows over to build on top of it to go on top of it, but we don't materially have time to go on. 41:05.980 --> 41:17.980 And we are, we think that it's important to be recognized as a D.P.G because we are happy to be recognized for what we are, a digital public good. 41:17.980 --> 41:25.980 And it will also help us increase our impact to start growing assertion with more government to transform the food system. 41:25.980 --> 41:29.980 Thank you. 41:33.980 --> 41:35.980 Thank you very much for that beer. 41:35.980 --> 41:46.980 Now last but not the least, I would like to invite on stage Janik Werner from Chameleau, which is also a digital public good to share more about the important work they're doing in the field of education. 41:46.980 --> 41:48.980 Thank you. 41:48.980 --> 41:50.980 Thank you. 41:54.980 --> 41:59.980 So Chameleau is an e-learning platform or LMS for learning management system. 41:59.980 --> 42:03.980 And obviously we tackle SDG for quality education. 42:03.980 --> 42:09.980 I'm a proud founder of the Chameleau project and I'm the current leader of the project. 42:09.980 --> 42:16.980 Our mission is to improve the availability of quality education around the world. 42:16.980 --> 42:20.980 We've been doing that since 2010. 42:20.980 --> 42:26.980 And our process is relatively simple and relatively similar to other open source systems. 42:26.980 --> 42:32.980 We focus on providing a platform that is easy to use. 42:32.980 --> 42:36.980 We provided for download on our website. 42:36.980 --> 42:40.980 We allow people to test it on a bunch of test platforms. 42:40.980 --> 42:43.980 We receive feedback from anyone anywhere. 42:43.980 --> 42:46.980 And we improve and optimize on that feedback. 42:46.980 --> 43:01.980 This has allowed us in a recent French study of our 30 different LMSs to be ranked third in against 24 proprietary LMSs and six other open source. 43:02.980 --> 43:08.980 For us, the open source process is a huge pusher of feedback. 43:08.980 --> 43:10.980 So we receive a lot of feedback. 43:10.980 --> 43:11.980 We love it. 43:11.980 --> 43:14.980 And we adapt on the basis of the feedback. 43:14.980 --> 43:22.980 But it's really important for us because that brings a lot of innovation in our solution. 43:22.980 --> 43:28.980 For us, our impact on quality education is done through three different vectors. 43:28.980 --> 43:31.980 One of them is reliability. 43:31.980 --> 43:34.980 The other is rich and the final one is portability. 43:34.980 --> 43:38.980 So in terms of reliability, we exist now since 2010. 43:38.980 --> 43:41.980 So it's been just 15 years. 43:41.980 --> 43:46.980 It's actually not counting the fork we did in 2010. 43:46.980 --> 43:53.980 So if we go back there, we are there from since more than 24 years. 43:54.980 --> 44:02.980 And it's really important because the average lifetime of an LMS in the US Academy is 11 years. 44:02.980 --> 44:08.980 So being there for more than 11 years is really important to show reliability. 44:08.980 --> 44:13.980 In terms of rich, we are almost at 40 million users. 44:13.980 --> 44:15.980 We're missing like 100,000 users. 44:15.980 --> 44:20.980 We now have a rhythm of about 4 million new users every year. 44:20.980 --> 44:29.980 That use our software through about 80,000 different installations in more than 180 countries. 44:29.980 --> 44:43.980 Although ease of use is like our main focus because we think that the only way we can get better education to people that are not really knowledgeable in the digital environment. 44:43.980 --> 44:45.980 We also focus on efficiency. 44:45.980 --> 44:58.980 And that allows us, for example, to have a small school server run on a Raspberry P B Plus, which is a device from 2014. 44:58.980 --> 45:06.980 The impact of open source on our project is there are a lot of different impacts. 45:06.980 --> 45:09.980 But one of the bad impacts is the high maintenance cost. 45:09.980 --> 45:16.980 Because we're doing everything publicly, really adds to the cost of maintenance of the project. 45:16.980 --> 45:25.980 So infrastructure that has to be public, time that has to be spent on put requests, time on security issues, time on developing documentation. 45:25.980 --> 45:31.980 Everything takes time anyway in software, but it takes more time to do it publicly. 45:32.980 --> 45:39.980 However, we believe that open source is the most efficient way to spread the software and make it available to a lot of people. 45:39.980 --> 45:46.980 It's also a big pusher for transparency and security because we cannot really hide anything. 45:46.980 --> 45:55.980 And we really love the fact that we have access to a worldwide community of people that are really motivated to do good everyday. 45:56.980 --> 46:02.980 The benefits of being included in the DPGs is still too early to talk about that. 46:02.980 --> 46:09.980 But last year we saw a conference from Amrin talking about the DPGs. 46:09.980 --> 46:14.980 So we decided to subscribe to register to be approved as a DPG. 46:14.980 --> 46:17.980 It's a bit like a small ISO process. 46:17.980 --> 46:24.980 We have a series of documents and show that we comply with all the requirements. 46:24.980 --> 46:34.980 But it's actually great to do with thought that it was really a place to be for us because of our vision and our mission. 46:34.980 --> 46:41.980 But otherwise we just hope that this will give us increased visibility because the project itself already works. 46:41.980 --> 46:43.980 There's a lot of people using it. 46:43.980 --> 46:48.980 So just more visibility means more impact on quality education. 46:48.980 --> 46:50.980 Thank you. 46:50.980 --> 46:59.980 Thank you very much, Janik for all your incredible work. 46:59.980 --> 47:03.980 And thank you all for being here today and for your incredible contributions. 47:03.980 --> 47:07.980 And you heard from some of the amazing DPGs here today. 47:07.980 --> 47:10.980 And we have many more participating in the dev rooms. 47:10.980 --> 47:15.980 So example the energy dev room, the government collaboration dev room as well. 47:15.980 --> 47:18.980 And of course we have our very own DPGs stand as well. 47:18.980 --> 47:21.980 So please visit them while you're here at first time. 47:21.980 --> 47:28.980 And lastly I would just like to say that with only five years left to achieve the UN SDGs, 47:28.980 --> 47:32.980 the time to act is now, right? 47:32.980 --> 47:39.980 So let's scale digital public goods harness open source innovation and drive some real world impact. 47:39.980 --> 47:41.980 Thank you everyone. 47:48.980 --> 47:50.980 Thank you.