Global public infrastructures and digital sovereignty: a perspective from CERN’s OSPO
The Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) has become a key part of supporting an organisation’s open source strategy, going beyond licence compliance and risk management.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, approved the creation of its OSPO in 2023 to support the production and use of Open Source software and hardware within the organisation, to showcase its contributions to the software and hardware commons, and to serve as a focal point for Open Source in the high-energy physics community.
In this talk, we present the work carried out by CERN’s OSPO, with a focus on two areas: global public infrastructures, including how CERN engages with and supports free and Open Source software ecosystems; and digital sovereignty, in particular initiatives that help avoid vendor lock-in.
Giacomo Tenaglia is a computer scientist with 25 years of experience in designing, building and running services based on free and open-source software components. He works at CERN IT department on the team responsible for configuration management and scientific computing services. Over the past few years, Giacomo has led the creation of CERN's Open Source Program Office, where he currently serves as chair.