Mithusa Kajendran
Mithusa Kajendran is an Open Source Adoption Consultant at the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology, where she works on advancing open source collaboration, digital innovation, and global community engagement across the UN system. She leads Reboot the Earth, a global initiative that brings youth together to use open source technologies to address global challenges and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also one of the organizers behind UN Open Source Week, a global gathering focused on advancing collaboration and dialogue around open source within the United Nations and beyond.
Session
With humanitarian and international actors in the conference community, this session co-creates a vision and wish-list for a Humanitarian Cyber Commons — shared, open and trustworthy data, tools and AI capabilities that help protect vulnerable populations and the organisations serving them — and turns it into a high-level, preliminary and non-committing roadmap of deliverables. Together, participants collect needs against guiding principles (strategic autonomy, neutrality, data protection, digital dignity), and identify candidate use cases and potential partners to join.
The roadmap is structured around two inputs: (a) the requirements and requests received from stakeholders, and (b) the deliverables already foreseen within our established Luxembourg Cybersecurity Factory Cyber Commons work programme.
The session then invites the audience to say what is missing from the roadmap and, realistically, in what timeline each item is genuinely needed — "yesterday" not being an accepted answer.
Output: white paper (Chatam house rules), to be distributed to the participants only, including a draft vision statement, a prioritised wish-list, and candidate use cases and partnerships.