OFA Symposium 2025: Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times

Marco Berlinguer

Senior researcher at CISL and principal investigator. Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Expert in FOSS and Digital commons.
CSIL's other participants in the research team are: Prof. Massimo Florio, D.sa Silvia Vignetti and D.sa. Martina Gazzo


Sessions

11-18
10:30
20min
The Next Tripartite Governance Systems: Governments, Markets, and Commons
Marco Berlinguer

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.

Open Technologies and Geopolitics
Main Room
11-18
12:30
30min
Q&A Panel: Open Technologies and Geopolitics
Nicholas Gates, Jan Krewer, Jennifer Tridgell, Marco Berlinguer, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Cassie Jiun Seo, Raphael Pouyé

This Q&A panel will allow attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the paper presenters and to dive into some of the key questions behind the research they have presented as part of the Open Source and Geopolitics track.

Open Technologies and Geopolitics
Main Room