From Policy to Practice: Establishing Effective Government OSPOs

Michael Downey (UNDP) and David Manset (ITU) described how Kenya and Trinidad and Tobago are establishing governmental OSPOs as coordination bodies to reduce duplication and align open source with national strategies, stressing mandate, authority, and cross-government engagement over technical tooling.

Speakers

• Michael Downey

  Open Source Specialist

• David Manset

  Senior Project Coordinator

Organizations

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET)

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