18/11/2025 –, Main Room
This is a research project curried out by CSIL under the RFP 2024 Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund. It explores the emerging approaches to the tripartite governance of open technology initiatives, which are the result of more structural and strategic forms of state involvement, driven by the growing infrastructural centrality of FOSS, the maturity and widespread adoption of this model of technological innovation, coupled with the broader crisis of neoliberalism and the resurgence of state activism in response to intensifying geopolitical and economic competition. This strategic involvement of governments signals a a new stage of development for open technology initiatives and a transition toward novel governance configurations.
This presentation will provide a significant sample of the ongoing projects and initiatives in which these forms of tripartite governance of ODI are taking their first steps and a structured, case-based taxonomy of the characteristics, tensions and innovations that are emerging in these hybrid governance arrangements.
This ongoing research explores the emerging approaches to the tripartite governance of open technology initiatives, which are the result of more structural and strategic forms of state involvement, driven by the growing infrastructural centrality of FOSS, the maturity and widespread adoption of this model of technological innovation, coupled with the broader crisis of neoliberalism and the resurgence of state activism in response to intensifying geopolitical and economic competition. This strategic involvement of governments signals a new stage of development for open technology initiatives and a transition toward novel governance configurations. The paper provides a significant sample of the ongoing projects and initiatives in which these forms of tripartite governance of ODI are taking their first steps and a structured, case-based taxonomy of the characteristics, tensions, and innovations that are emerging in these hybrid governance arrangements.
