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Favorite Summer is normally quiet in Brussels, but this year might just be the exception: over the last month, the EU has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience (CRA) and AI acts. The OSI has been engaged with European policymakers over the past two years to ensure those
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Shared by voicesofopensource August 13, 2026
Favorite The preliminary agenda for the first Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium is now available. Taking place on 26 and 27 October 2026 at the University of Barcelona as part of Barcelona Open Tech Week, the Symposium is convened by Open Technology Research’s founding members: OpenForum Europe, the Open Source
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Favorite This week’s reporting out of Washington (See: “Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models”, The Wall Street Journal, July 20) describes an administration weighing whether to restrict American access to open weight AI models, particularly the ones released by labs in China. The measures reportedly under discussion
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Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Source AI Fellowship at UN Open Source Week. The fellowship will support OSI’s work to advance understanding, measure trends, engage in policy, and build consensus around what it means for an AI system to be
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Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently submitted comments to Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) regarding its draft guidance on technology providers under the ECA Digital framework, a law to protect children and teenagers in digital environments. Our contribution focused on ensuring that implementation of the law recognizes the
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Favorite This week, the European Union (EU) published its “Tech Sovereignty” package, with a vision that puts Open Source at the heart of the EU’s digital sovereignty ambitions, while addressing many concerns and requests of Open Source communities. In February of this year, the OSI submitted feedback for the EU’s Open Digital Ecosystems
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Favorite On May 29, 2026 in Paris, G7 Digital and Technology ministers approved a “Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language”. The vision, which sets out terminology around AI openness, is the result of a three-month partnership between the OSI and the G7. OSI Executive Director, Duane O’Brien (pictured
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Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI), Apereo Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, and Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) issued the following statement on age attestation requirements for operating systems. Statement_Age_AttestationDownload Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)
Favorite Last week, the OSI submitted its feedback to the Open Digital Ecosystems strategy, which comes at a time when both Open Source communities and the European Union face unprecedented challenges. We highlighted the benefits of Open Source for Europe, and how to leverage them in a way that strengthens
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 10, 2026
Favorite Every year, FOSDEM – the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting – turns Brussels into a global meeting point for the Free and Open Source software community. In 2026, that energy extended well beyond the university halls, as policymakers, foundations, developers, and civil society gathered to confront a
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