Paula Grzegorzewska
Paula Grzegorzewska is Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager at the Linux Foundation Europe. Her expertise revolves around digital policy and open source software, as well as digital transformation of European public services. Previously, she was a Strategic Partnerships Director at OpenForum Europe, a leading Brussels-based think tank focused on open technologies and policy, where she lead OFE’s engagement with European and global partners stemming from government, academia, not-for-profits and international institutions. She is a co-author of the 2021 European Commission’s study on the economic impact of open source software and hardware and other policy research reports. She also worked on closing the gender gap in ICT with an NGO in Luxembourg, and has a Master’s degree in New Media and Communications from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She speaks Polish, English and French.
Beiträge
In 2021, the value of open source for the European and national economies has been analysed and recognised by the European Commission through a dedicated study that provided evidence for the immense impact it has on GDP, innovation and technological progress. The push for digital sovereignty in the recent years has sped up the uptake and emergence of new policy instruments that would leverage open technologies for the benefit of European and global citizens, companies and public services.
Different talks have during the day touched or had as a main topic digital sovereignty. It has always been an important issue for a country like Switzerland, but becomes more and more important and urgent. Even if the basic tenet is accepted, the path forward, especially in the very complex situation with supply chains, international collaboration, the general complexity of todays societies is very much open to discussion. With the panelists that span very different view points and have different backgrounds we hope to explore some aspects of balancing how to proceed.