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OFE’s Basil Cousins Award 2026 goes to Yigakpoa S. L. Ikpae for “Digital Commons as Civic Infrastructure: Governance Frameworks for Open Source AI and Public Accountability.”, presented by Laszlo Igneczi and Sachiko Muto Thanks to all speakers and to the University of Barcelona.

🔹Slovenia's secondary publication right 🔹Mapping the OSH Manufacturing Landscape 🔹Three talks on public procurement: verification tech, vendor cooperation, and supplier capacity for open source

🔹Pranesh Prakash: good data governance needs tools that increase openness and tools that limit it. 🔹Then a panel on Barcelona's open transition with Simona Levi, Albert Cañigueral Bagó, Pau Balcells Alegre and Ignasi Labastida i Juan. #OTRSymposium2026

Great talk by Stefano Zacchiroli (@softwareheritage.org) about insights from the Software Heritage archive! @opentechresearch.org Symposium

Stefano Zacchiroli from softwareheritage.org about what it is: „A non-profit, open, international archive with independent mirrors run by other organisations, in their own jurisdictions, on their own stacks“ At @opentechresearch.org Symposium in Barcelona.

Day 2 of #OTRSymposium2026 opens with Governance: When should public sector code be open, InnerSource or closed? (Clare Dillon) Lessons from Integrate Pasifika (Koto Qalo) Public-Commons Partnerships for open source AI (Yigakpoa L. Ikpae)

Day 1 of #OTRSymposium2026 closed on sustainability: funding disaster-response civic tech in Taiwan, evaluating OSS funding at the Sovereign Tech Agency, open tech in development contexts, and an index for 137 open infrastructures. Day 2 is starting off now!

Yesterday after lunch at #OTRSymposium2026: Behavioural Change/Adoption Clare Dillon - InnerSource Program Offices Julius Murke - Cameroon's One Health Information System Olivier Schulbaum - Political UX in participation platforms Then Stefano Zacchiroli belivered a keynote on Software Heritage.

There is AI beyond CUDA! Llama.cpp already supports RISC-V AI accelerators certified by #OpenHWFoundation 😉 Great talk by Johan at @opentechresearch.org #OTRSymposium

Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq) at @opentechresearch.org Symposium 2026 in Barcelona: “New tools without new political cultures risk either remaining unused, or being absorbed by the very systems they were meant to transform.”

Alberto Gago Fernández, Director of Spain's AI supervision agency AESIA, presented an open source AI strategy being developed in Spain with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. Then two talks on open source hardware. #OTRSymposium2026

Day 1 of #OTRSymposium2026 started at the University of Barcelona. Theme: Shaping the Open Transition. First up was a fireside chat with Sasha Costanza-Chock and Renata Ávila Pinto on who controls open technology, and who it should serve. symposium.opentechresearch.org

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is taking place next week! On 26 and 27 October, we will meet at the University of Barcelona. symposium.opentechresearch.org

The Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 is taking place next week and the University of Barcelona, 26–27 October. Registration closes at the end of today. We want to thank the sponsors who make the Symposium possible. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is taking place next week! On 26 and 27 October, we will meet at the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Registration is still open until 22 October. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

In one week, the first Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 takes place on 26-27 October in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Register now: symposium.opentechresearch.org#register Read our blog post: opentechresearch.org/blog/the-otr...

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is taking place in less than two weeks! On 26 and 27 October, we will meet at the University of Barcelona. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The OTR Symposium 2026 is taking place in just two weeks' time! On 26 and 27 October in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The third thematic block of Day Two, entitled ‘Public Procurement Ecosystem’, looks at procurement as a lever for open technology adoption. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The #BarcelonaOpenTechWeek, organised by Barcelona City Council, has just published its full programme for the week. The #OTRSymposium2026 is part of the week, taking place on 26–27 October, and OTR is an official partner of the Barcelona Open Tech Week. otw.decidim.barcelona

The latest edition of the Open Technology Research newsletter is out. It includes the final agenda for the OTR Symposium 2026, taking place on 26-27 October at the Universitat de Barcelona as part of Barcelona Open Tech Week. opentechresearch.org

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is taking place in just three weeks time! On 26 and 27 October, we will meet in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The second block of Day Two, Behavioural Change and Adoption, addresses a gap in the evidence. symposium.opentechresearch.org#regist

Join us for an Open Source AI Salon on day two of the OTR 2026. We'll discuss the current state and future of openness in AI. 📅 October 27, 2026 🕓 16:30–17:30 📍 University of Barcelona, Library 🎟️ Open to Barcelona Open Tech Week participants opensource.org/ai-salon#att...

We are happy to announce our final agenda for the OTR Sympoisum 2026, which will take place on 26-27 Ocotber in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. You can register to join via the link in the first comment. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register symposium.opentechresearch.org#programme

OTR will participate in the @mozilla.org Festival, aka MozFest, which is taking place in Barcelona from 28-30 of October. MozFest is part of the Barcelona Open Tech Week, a city-wide celebration of the people shaping a better digital world. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/festival/...

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is taking place in one month. On 26 and 27 October, speakers and attendees will meet at the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Register now: symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is approaching. On 26 and 27 October, speakers and attendees will meet at the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 is approaching. On 26 and 27 October we meet at the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Register now: symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

Open Technolgoy Research is excited to share that we will participate in the @mozilla.org Festival, aka MozFest, which is taking place in Barcelona's Recinte Fabra i Coats, from 28-30 of October. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/festival/...

End of July we announced the preliminary agenda for the first Open Technology Research Symposium at the University of Barcelona 26-27 Ocotber. Explore the agenda and register now: symposium.opentechresearch.org

We just sent out the latest edition of the OTR newsletter! Subscribe for the latest news, research, and opportunities across the open technology ecosystem: opentechresearch.org

This paper report on the Gegoria Tech Open Source Program Office (OSPO@GT) as an institutional mechanism for advancing RSE practices through coordinated education, student pipelines, and cross-unit collaboration. Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

"An Integrated Architecture for Digital Government Transformation" proposes a four-layer architecture combining open data, AI and cyber-physical infrastructures to address data silos and inconsistent standards in government. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1007/s131...

Two weeks ago, Open Technology Research launched the preliminary agenda for the #OpenTechnologyResearchSymposium2026! If you're a researcher, policymaker, practitioner, or civil society leader working on open tech, join us on 26-27 October in #Barcelona. symposium.opentechresearch.org#register

The study "Advancing Digital Government through Open Source Indicators" examines OSS policy goals, actors, and support mechanisms across 16 digitally mature countries, proposing indicators for inclusion in digital government maturity indexes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In the article “Innovation Accelerator or “Venus Flytrap” Strategy? The Antitrust Perspective on Open Source AI Regulation", Yiwei Zhou examines the market dynamics underpinning open source AI and why firms choose openness in their models. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1515/ijdl...

While our OTR programme committee is reviewing all submissions and deciding what best fits the conference, we want to share the recordings of the last edition of the OpenForum Academy Symposium event, the predecessor of the OTR Symposium. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...