Sachiko Muto
Sachiko Muto, Chair, OpenForum Europe; Senior Researcher, RISE
Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe, a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and a Board member of the Drupal Association. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then as CEO. Sachiko has degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics; she received her doctorate in standardisation policy from TU Delft.
Session
Interest in open source at the policy level has grown considerably in recent years. What's still missing is a shared understanding of what it takes to make that endorsement operational. This panel brings together three evidence bases for closing that gap: new research identifying 13 concrete capacity indicators that separate policy intent from practice; the UN's Open Source Enablement Compass, which is turning that kind of research into a yearly benchmarking tool for governments worldwide; and Software Heritage's State of Public Code, which tracks what governments actually contribute, not just what they claim. Together, they ask: what would it take to move open source in government from policy to evidence-based action?