Okay, welcome to our next keynote talk. We have Amreen and Omar and four of their colleagues.
Going to give us an insight into our open source is helping to achieve the global sustainable development goals.
And Amreen, you're starting.
Thank you very much.
So hi, everyone. My name is Amreen Taneda and the standards lead additional public goods alliance.
And I'd like to warmly welcome you all to the session on scaling open source solutions to achieve the sustainable development goals, a global call to action.
I'm also very excited to be here today with my brilliant colleague Omar Mosin, who is the open source coordinator from the UN Office of Digital and Emerging Technologies.
And we're also joined here by some incredible members of the DPG community, who I'll be introducing very soon, just want to keep some suspense.
So all right, so let's get started.
So everyone here is passionate about open source technologies and you know they're impacting the world.
But today we'd like to talk about this impact from the lens of the UN Sustainable Development goals and digital public goods, right.
So picture this, a room full of world leaders from 193 countries, usually debating, but this time agreeing on something very big, right.
They came together to address some of humanity's biggest challenges, like ending poverty, protecting the planet, ensuring everyone has access to good education, good health care services.
And on these lines, you know, these, they came up with 17 key priorities, which is what we call as the Sustainable Development goals today.
So these goals are almost like an ambitious to-do list that address challenges, like climate change, inequality, access to health care, and yes, even digital transformation, right.
All right, so SDGs, you know, you can think of SDGs, something like there are almost like the world's open source roadmap for progress, right.
Because no single entity really owns them, and everyone can contribute, and that is why we're here with you today.
So essentially they're not just policies or nice to have, but they're almost like, they're almost like a global bug fix to systematic challenges that we have in the world, right.
And just like an open source project, the success of this, it really depends on collaboration, on transparency, and interoperability, right.
So as the digital public goods alliance, we are aligned with our members who are 45 in number, and, you know, they include national governments, open source organizations, as well as UN entities.
And we share this common belief that attainment of these SDGs cannot and will not be possible without open technologies that truly drive digital cooperation.
So that is the reason why we essentially focus on supporting the discovery, the development, as well as the investment in these open source technologies, that we call digital public goods.
So to give everyone a glimpse of, you know, what DPGs really are, let me begin with a story.
So we all remember COVID-19, right. It was something that very much affected our lives till a few years back.
And in Sri Lanka, the first suspected case of COVID-19, it came up on 27 January 2020.
And, you know, immediately local developers there, they got together to build a COVID-19 tracker on top of DHIS2.
And DHIS2 is a health information management system and additional public goods being used by Sri Lanka.
So they're tracker, you know, it focused on essentially registration and tracking of travelers who were, you know, coming from a lot of these regions with a high susceptibility of COVID-19 infection cases.
And this particular solution, it was created just within two days of the first suspected COVID-19 case that was registered.
And it was deployed in the airports of Sri Lanka just days later, right. But the speed and the efficiency with which Sri Lanka really responded to this crisis, that is not the most impressive part of this story.
The most impressive part of this story is how quickly this invention was picked up and adapted by other countries across the world.
So DHIS2, this is already being used by over 100 countries around the world. And that essentially meant, you know, that when Sri Lanka shared their user guides with the COVID-19 response team at DHIS2,
they were almost in real time able to implement this in over 35 countries for surveillance purposes as well as for vaccination purposes.
So these are, you know, the kind of opportunities that digital public goods unlock.
Now I'd really like to share with you a little bit of, you know, where the concept and definition essentially comes from.
So the DPG definition was laid down by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who delineates open source technologies as into five categories.
So firstly, open source software, open data, open AI systems, open standards, and open content.
So DPGs are, of course, open source, right. But they are so much more than that.
We personally like to think of them as open source plus plus, right, because when we talk about a solution, that is additional public good.
We, you know, envisage that solution to be advancing sustainable development goals.
It should have an open source license, but it should be genuinely developed in a manner that allows for adaptation and reuse, right.
And thirdly, it should be a solution that has taken steps in its design and its development to avoid and mitigate any kind of harm.
Now something that really sets the term digital public goods apart is the definition that is brought to life through these nine indicators that you see on the screen here.
And this essentially elaborates on, you know, what do know harm by design means for privacy, for security, for adherence to laws and best practices as well.
And these nine indicators, they create a baseline of requirements for a solution that should be categorized as a digital public good, right.
And one of the core functions of the alliances well is just to word and maintain the DPG definition, as well is its application and fact.
Now because I'm the DPG standards lead, I can stand here and talk for hours about the importance of every indicator.
But I won't want to bore you. And so in the interest of time, we have a QR code here, just please feel free to scan that and you'll find the entire standard there.
But I'd like to talk to you today about a few key indicators as a part of this DPG standard.
All right.
So the first one that I'd like to cover is SDG relevance, right.
Now this, of course, like I mentioned, is a very broad topic, right, because a solution that that does any type of good for the society will probably fall under the category of one SDG or another, right.
So what we look for here is essentially whether a solution has a clear contribution to one or more sustainable development goals.
You know, example universal access to healthcare services or perhaps, you know, it could be support research and vaccinations or medications.
And as a part of your application, you know, you have to provide to us how you think that this, you know, your solution can actually contribute towards advancing a particular SDG.
So that is what indicator one is all about.
Now I'd like to talk with you about indicator four.
This is platform independence.
This one's a bit tricky, right, because what this means is that essentially we prefer for everything to be open source.
But if for example, let's say your solution has a proprietary component, right.
Example Google Maps Engine.
And if you provide us an open source alternative to go along with that alongside your solution, then it's all right.
But the only caveat here is that it should be easy for implementers to switch different providers or vendors, right.
And the whole idea behind this is that vendor lock in should be avoided, right.
So that is the main consideration that we have behind this particular indicator.
Now moving on to indicator number seven, which is privacy and applicable laws.
So we've recently updated this indicator.
And you know, applicants are now required to sort of share whether they comply to some of the best privacy practices that we have considered.
Now is baseline requirements for qualification as a digital public good.
So what do these requirements look like?
So do you have data minimization practices as a part of your solution?
You know, what are the user consent mechanisms that you have in terms of handling PI data?
Whether there is any, whether there's any sort of adherence to privacy by design principles as a part of your solution.
So these are some of the considerations that we want you to think about.
And you can, you know, prove this by essentially providing us a terms of use or a particular privacy policy that specifically addresses these components as well, right.
And in addition to this, we will also be soon coming up with an extra of best privacy practices.
You know, that DPGs will be highly encouraged to follow.
That will be almost like a notch above what we have is the baseline requirements.
So to speak, right.
Now, lastly, what I would like to talk about is indicator number eight.
So this is standards and best practices, right.
Very simply put, essentially any standards or best practices that apply to the solution in which, you know, that essentially apply to the industry in which your solution belongs.
You should be adhering to that.
So this can be, you know, any of the best practices in standards that you see here on screen.
It can be any sort of web standards by W3C.
It can be the GTSS for public transport.
It can be, you know, even open contracting standard for fiscal transparency.
So the list goes on essentially.
And a fun fact.
The DPG standard is an open standard in and of itself.
So we always looking for community input to make this standard better.
And we are in fact soon going to be working on fine-tuning this particular indicator of the standard.
So if you are interested in, you know, the standard development process or this side of, you know, the open source ecosystem.
Please feel free to reach out to me after this talk.
And we can discuss on how we can incorporate your inputs into this.
All right.
So on this note, I will hand it over to my colleague Omar from, you know, the UN office of emerging additional technologies.
To share more about what is really happening in the United Nations to accelerate the DPG adoption.
And as well as scaling open source solutions in general.
So over to you, Omar.
Thank you.
Good morning, everyone.
My name is Omar.
I work for the UN office for digital emerging technologies.
And I'm the UN open source coordinator.
It's so cool to see you all.
And here's just to give you a bit of a story of what we, how we got to this as DG.
So it goes back to 1999.
So I'm going to start back back.
At the time, the Secretary General of the UN, coffee and I'm sure you heard of him.
While we're entering a new millennium, they said, okay, we have to do things differently.
This is the 2000s.
We cannot do the same business as before.
He created these things here.
The eight.
I don't know if you've ever seen those.
Raise your hand if you've ever seen the millennium development goals.
Ah, not bad.
So why they were cool for many reasons.
Before every country has their own priorities.
Some would have different project program.
And then some would give a different name.
It was the first time that we as world came up together and said,
There's eight goals we need to care about about reducing child mortality,
about improving maternal health.
And it was a clear framework.
And the coolest thing about that is that they said two, two, three things.
They said, they are clear metrics.
We're going to see if we're reaching this goal.
So it's not just a main, main, big open things.
It's like we're going to measure and every country will tell us where they're doing.
And the second thing is that it was only 15 years.
And he said, in 2015, we're going to stop that.
And I'm happy.
At the end of the 15 years, 2015, three out of the eight goals were achieved,
which is pretty huge.
And then 2015, member state, your government, my government,
everybody's government said, we like it.
This is really cool.
Let's do more.
Let's see.
And this is what they come up with the sustainable development goals
that I'm reading was talking about earlier.
That was approved in 2015.
How many SDGs are there?
I'm reading at it in the slide.
And she destroyed my quiz.
Yes, the 17 goals that came up.
So the same logic here.
So we have only 15 years.
Now we're starting the third term.
Five years left.
They're finishing in 2030.
So this is really is the time where we have to double down on that.
But the coolest thing about that is that member state, when they said,
we said, this thing, they said, to achieve them,
technology is the main mean we will get there.
We will not get there, otherwise.
But then there are policy, there's investment, there's government support.
There's many things, but the front and center is technology.
And as now we're saying even more, is not only technology,
is open source.
Open source for us is the only way we can get everybody to work together.
We will not achieve that alone.
No one government, no one entity, no one company,
nobody will achieve this sustainable development goals on their own.
And how to work together is open source.
Like you guys, open source, folks, you've been showing us the way.
Like nobody at the UN, like when they talk about collaborating among countries and
stuff, they are just not even close to what you guys achieve every day,
where you have all of you working together.
Thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of strangers who never met
each other, probably would never meet each other, working together.
That is what we're trying to leverage.
That is the digital champion that the Secretary General was talking about,
that we would love to raise.
Again, why open source for us?
Transparency, it's a bit the heart of what we do us at the UN.
We love transparency.
And you guys, I think, more transparent than open source, you can find.
Community that again, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people
collaborating together towards one goal that is 100% aligned with what we want.
Innovation, it always coming from open sources, never coming from the big tech,
whatever how much money they have, you will always be more innovative than them.
Sustainability, cost efficiency, yeah.
To achieve the SDG, we're talking to communities, to countries, to groups of people
who can not afford to pay big licenses.
Again, open source for us is really all these six goals.
This six ideals is really what we're striving for.
But how do you go about changing an organization of 60,000 people?
By the way, this is probably the first or second time my life.
I stand in front of a crowd where everybody believes in open source.
Raise your hand if you don't believe in open source?
Yeah, good you didn't answer because you'll be escorted out of the room by security.
That was a trap.
So every time I stand from any crowd at the UN and I talk about open source,
people look at me like I'm an alien.
And this is why we started with this strategy.
So our strategy was based on this three pillar.
First is policy, this is boring, but it's important.
That's the lawyers that's making sure that you won't get in trouble if you open source.
Because you want to do it the right way.
So we did a lot of work on policy.
And then the second thing is I'm here to talk to you about some of the stuff.
It is culture change.
We want to change the culture of a big massive organization where at the heart of it is not open is closed.
It's not in our DNA.
In our DNA, as any public administration is closed,
every time I talk to somebody they say, but we can open is confidential.
No, it's not.
So how to go about changing the culture.
And then the third one is technology.
So here again, the culture and we did a couple of cool stuff.
One of the things we did is called mind the open source gap.
So we just call UN stuff and say everybody who wants to list,
we do lectures on open source.
Well, it's three hours.
Do you want to come?
And we thought there will have 10, 20 people now.
We're reaching around 600 people who come.
And then we got all these names, all these big organization come.
Tell us what works, what doesn't work.
We had Boris was one of those, right?
Yes.
Boris from Eclipse Foundation who give an amazing talk by the way.
Another thing that we did that was really cool is we created this community of practice.
We just say, hey, again, if I stop randomly-handred people at the door of the UN,
I say, do you like open source?
I will have 99 who would not, I don't know about it or like,
but I will have that 1% who would like it.
So we created a community of those 1% and then we start talking with each other.
And we start identifying each other.
And this has been a really big success.
And then every two weeks we do a little newsletter, call it unlocked.
And then once a month, we do a call of all the open source heroes that we had identified.
Now we are at almost 500 people in our community.
So slowly it is starting.
We do hackatons, that's pretty cool.
This is open source software for SDG,
where we do hackathon with other UN entities.
This has been a big success.
We open, please check it out.
All of you, this is virtual.
You don't have not in the room where we pick an SDG,
like SDG 5, gender equality or SDG 4 education.
And we put problems, real life problems,
and say, hey world, help us solve them.
And we get some incredible, incredible solution.
I just want to, now that we're talking about,
even example, I wasn't supposed to talk about,
this came to mind now.
We did, the first one was SDG 4 about education.
And we say, hey world, help us fix model.
There's two problems we are facing with model in,
called during COVID time, is the mobile app.
And then low latency in area where there's not a great connectivity.
We did that with model.
And we got some incredible solutions.
And then we had a jury to, to, to, to, to, to great them.
The winner was an inspector in the Ministry of Education of,
of, of code devour, who built this incredible module
that model founder CEO was there.
He was so impressed with that.
Just to tell you like the open source,
there's like, there was, for us, this big moment where like,
wow, open source is in places you would not exist.
And he built the module that helped the whole,
the Ministry is in code devour to use model during the,
the COVID pandemic.
This is another thing great that we did, that's my t-shirt.
So that's reboot the earth.
So we do together with digital public good alliance and Salesforce,
where we here focus on, we do hackatons for climate change.
Please also look it up.
Next year we're going to do a lot more locations.
So probably, we won't be in Brussels, sorry.
We'll be in Rome, but one leg of it is also virtual,
where people can be anywhere in the world.
So here, another thing quickly to talk about,
we brought together the agencies.
So we said, again, pure open source philosophy is that,
nobody will get there alone.
So we created a group with all the UN agencies and we said,
let's put our hands together and let's do stuff collaboratively.
And then we said, a group, please take care of building a software catalog for us.
Please a group take care of building the policy,
a group for the license, a group for the platform,
and one for the capacity building.
So now, thanks to this work, we have a UN open source catalog,
UN open source repository.
We have GitLab here with us to help us through that process.
We have license and so on.
Let me move fast.
So this is something that we are working on.
Please, please, check it out.
It's going out next month.
It's called the UN open source portal.
Here, this is really cool because in everywhere we go people like you,
always say, I want to help the UN.
I want to work on some of this SDG.
Where shall I start? Where should I go?
So we're launching this.
We're going to be open source that you end.org.
Once again, open source that you end.org,
that's going to be the link where you can come.
Find all the project that the UN is working on that are open source.
And we're going to tell you which project we need your help,
which of these software of these solutions we want people to help us.
So this is coming your way soon.
And another one about this big conference that we're going to see.
Raise your hand if you've been to Ospo for good last year.
Oh, you were there? Yeah, you were there.
So this is happening at the UN Headquarter.
Also this year we're going to make it bigger.
We love for all of you to attend.
And here really is a global gathering.
We try to bring in government from north south from all countries.
Try to bring in players from all countries.
So Ospo for good is our Ruth is here.
She also was one of the speakers of last year.
Please come.
Keep.
Check it.
It's going to be in June and we'd love for all of you.
But and then we do a lot of we go to conferences and so on.
I stop here.
I'll be around happy to answer all your questions after that.
So this is some of the work we do at the UN and trying to get you all to please.
Please.
The SDG is not a one person or one organization to fix it is all of us.
When they created the SDG the first time was like this is a problem for everybody to solve.
And we believe that open source is the main way we can get there.
Thank you.
Wow.
Thank you so much Omar for that incredible and inspiring journey throughout.
In terms of like the amazing work that's happening for scaling open source solutions
and also digital public goods are the United Nations.
And now I would like to actually bring this conversation to life
by sharing some of the real world examples of you know the important work
that digital public goods are doing.
And so for that I would like to begin with some announcements.
Okay.
So I'm very excited to share with you today that two very well open source
projects that are almost like a household name that you might not just be aware of
but would be using in your daily lives as well.
Have recently become digital public goods.
And with that I would like to invite on stage Fred Rikke from Wikimedia
to please share her thoughts in this.
Hi.
Thank you so much.
So I'm happy to present Wikipedia having passed the task of being a digital public
good.
That's so cool.
And I present you with our closely or this is our model in a way.
Our global community and I bet a lot of you together with us have achieved a lot
during the last 20 years.
Wikipedia stands is the world's largest open knowledge platform.
We have providing free accessible and very viable information to people worldwide.
Both it's collaborative model of course it has.
It is bridging knowledge gaps fostering inclusivity and ensuring that high quality
educational resources are available to all.
So Wikipedia helps to achieve a lot of goals.
I think we applied for a specifically goal for five and 16 and 17 and then
to 10 we are contributing as well.
We are living deeper Wikipedia is specifically a global educational tool.
It is promoting lifelong learning for everyone regardless of financial or geographical
barriers.
It is used in schools and universities and in continuous learning projects worldwide.
We have initiatives such as wiki project for climate change and wiki project
environment which is contributing to learning about climate change and environmental issues
that's also contributing to SIG's 13 and 15.
We work on gender equality.
Humanities strive to ensure educational equity between gender.
We are not perfect of course but a lot of activities
strive for mitigating gender bias on our platforms.
We want to encourage women to contribute and we want to diversify the perspectives
that are represented in the global knowledge.
We do have a reduced Wikipedia is accessible in cities and in remote areas.
That's reducing inequalities to SIG's 10.
We have wiki kibics for schools for example providing offline content for regions with limited connectivity.
We are also contributing to SIG's 16 because volunteers have set up a well-knit system
to ensure quality of information and increasingly AI-driven information landscape
that's enhancing transparency and we hope to find this information.
This is also dear to my heart.
We are supporting collaborations with institutions and governments.
I can't get further into this.
This is a talk for itself to bridge digital divides and enhance accessibility.
We provide content in over 320 languages including minority languages and indigenous languages.
We have the Wagyu language on board so very rare languages are not only digitally documented and preserved,
but also brought further because you can speak them again.
They play with so Wikipedia plays a key role in preserving linguistic and cultural diversity.
So my call to action is Wikipedia is a force for positive change in education and transparency and sustainability.
You can contribute of course everyone can contribute because it's open source, edit Wikipedia.
Support wiki media projects advocate for open knowledge because knowledge is a key driver for sustainable development.
This is also key for democratic systems.
You can save the planet and strengthen democracy a little more with every single edit.
So that's easy.
See you all there.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, Rodrigo.
For that inspiring talk, we're very excited to have you as a digital public good.
And now for the second announcement.
All right, so we're very excited to welcome to the DPG community, the tour browser, which is now a digital public good.
So I'd like to welcome Alex.
Thank you very much.
It's great to be back here in Brussels.
My name is Alex.
I'm heading up towards network team where the team responsible for developing sort of the low level components of the stack.
And the tour is much more than that.
We are an American based nonprofit.
The big end user product we have is Tor browser.
Does anybody in here use Tor browser?
Okay, we have quite a few people there.
Tor browser has been recognized as a digital public good.
That's something we are incredibly proud of.
But Tor browser is just one thing.
We also have a number of different communities.
We are part of the free software community that we gather here and celebrate in these rooms.
But we also have a huge amount of people going out and doing training and doing translations.
We have massive amount of relay operators who run the tour network.
Do we have any relay operators in here?
We have a couple.
Otherwise if you have server capacity, you should totally contribute to the tour network.
In addition to the anti censorship and the community part.
Sorry, the anonymity and the community part.
We also do a significant amount of anti censorship work.
We do see all around the world.
There's very censorship events where people are prohibited access to online goods.
That is something that we have dedicated team working around the clock to figure out different ways to
Prope the networks, different ways to circumvent these censorship situations.
We are with all of this in mind.
We believe this is supporting like Tor's vision of having digital browser as a digital public good.
One of these things that we have recently started working on a lot is we followed the meme of trying to rewrite things
and rust.
So a big thing that we are trying to do now is to take the tour code base and turn it into an embeddable library
where you guys who are working on different projects.
If you have a need for an anti censorship or anonymity technology, you will be able to embed these things
into your application and gain different kinds of protection mechanisms for your users.
We see as an important component because one of these things is that we lower the access barrier for the system.
There exist alternatives and proprietary systems that are similar to Tor.
Many of them, many of you will probably also be out and have access to VPN subscriptions and so on.
But one of the big things there is that it requires a certain amount of privilege to be able to pay a few bucks each month
to be able to access these services.
Tor is freely available for everyone.
It will continue to be that for as long as we are doing it.
And one of these things that we do a lot of is to try to make sure that it is sort of safe to use and available.
When we look at the SDGs that we have talked about today, one of these things that I thought was really good previously in the presentation
was this concept of having it as a judulist that you could sort of look at.
One of these things that we of course look at is 9C which is access to information and communication technology.
A lot of people around you will have access to internet but doesn't have the same kind of privilege that we have that when we go online.
We generally have access to read news that are both good and bad about the governments that we are living in.
The people who don't have access to that and is of utmost importance that we continue to have access to these tools so that people can recommend these things.
In addition to that, we also have 1610 which is a public access to information and protection of fundamental freedoms.
We believe the towards contributing there.
But we also have to look a little bit outside of the box.
We have a lot of things going on in the world right now where there's people who have who is losing access to basic health care.
Like a reproductive health is under attack, we see trans health is under attack.
All of these things are something where we believe the towards contributing to that people have access to these information.
But also that they have access to tools such as onion services where they can publish information as well in a safe manner.
If I am to follow the previous speaker and give sort of a call to action, one of the extremely critical things that you guys in here can help with your many of you will be very technical.
You can help us find bucks, you can help us debug things, you can help operate relays and so on.
But if we need to look at a bit of a bigger picture with 70 people in the organization right now working for tour.
And very, very critical thing for us is that we have access to steady and stable funding sources.
And that goes both from the private sector but also from governments, right.
It is critical that we are able to hire skilled people and have them work on these things for longer times.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Alex.
Very excited to have the tour browser as a digital public good.
And now I would like to introduce Pierre Slamic from Open Food Facts, which is also now a digital public good.
To share more about how you are actually working on transforming and achieving SDGs.
So go for it.
Thank you so much.
It's good to be back in Brussels by show of hands who has already used Nutri score to buy a product to assess which products to buy.
Okay, quite a few people by show of hands.
Do any people know already about open food facts?
Okay, a few hands as well.
So open food facts and we are very honored to be named the digital public good alongside Wikipedia.
We've been nicknamed by the media, the Wikipedia of food.
And it's all about collecting information to a low consumers to transform the food system.
Or mission is all about reducing the impacts of the food system on health and the planet everywhere in the world.
So collecting information as consumers and turning it into actionable insights that allow you to reduce your consumption.
But also a low producers to improve their products and governments to take action.
We are helping tackle UN SDG goal free and 13 so good health and well-being.
And how do we do that? We do that through promoting responsible consumption and production.
And the impact on food on health is absolutely massive.
We have a global epidemic of obesity in Europe.
The OECD estimates that 3% of the GDP is wiped by overweight and obesity consequences.
Globally, food accounts for one third of carbon emission and 70% of the drinking water consumption.
So the obvious is that it's urgent to act.
And we do that by empowering citizens to have an impact.
It's overwhelming to transform the food system.
But we say if we get together, we should not panic and we should organize to have an impact on our health and the food system.
So basically, open food fact is a database and it's also a mobile app.
You can scan any food to see its impact on the planet and yourself and your health.
And you have a power if a product in your country is not there to take a few photos and unlock the scores like Nutri score and Ecos score.
And we need Nutri score. We showed that we can take a score from research paper.
We like collaborating with scientists and turn it into something that everyone can benefit from.
So we go from digital to policy by creating API ecosystems around the Nutri score promoting it.
And eventually it got signed into French loads, no in seven countries and the nice thing is that we have a systemic impact.
No producers are starting to reformulate and improve their products for everyone, even people who don't use open food facts.
And we are starting to do the same with the environment with Ecos score.
So why open? Obviously it's in the name.
But also in the specific topic of food just like for Wikipedia, it allows to build trust.
You wouldn't trust a food product without an ingredient list.
It also allows as was said before to go faster in development to partner more easily with producers, with government and overorganization,
we're supported for instance by the French government on Nutri score.
And it also allows over to build on top of it to go on top of it, but we don't materially have time to go on.
And we are, we think that it's important to be recognized as a D.P.G because we are happy to be recognized for what we are, a digital public good.
And it will also help us increase our impact to start growing assertion with more government to transform the food system.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for that beer.
Now last but not the least, I would like to invite on stage Janik Werner from Chameleau, which is also a digital public good to share more about the important work they're doing in the field of education.
Thank you.
So Chameleau is an e-learning platform or LMS for learning management system.
And obviously we tackle SDG for quality education.
I'm a proud founder of the Chameleau project and I'm the current leader of the project.
Our mission is to improve the availability of quality education around the world.
We've been doing that since 2010.
And our process is relatively simple and relatively similar to other open source systems.
We focus on providing a platform that is easy to use.
We provided for download on our website.
We allow people to test it on a bunch of test platforms.
We receive feedback from anyone anywhere.
And we improve and optimize on that feedback.
This has allowed us in a recent French study of our 30 different LMSs to be ranked third in against 24 proprietary LMSs and six other open source.
For us, the open source process is a huge pusher of feedback.
So we receive a lot of feedback.
We love it.
And we adapt on the basis of the feedback.
But it's really important for us because that brings a lot of innovation in our solution.
For us, our impact on quality education is done through three different vectors.
One of them is reliability.
The other is rich and the final one is portability.
So in terms of reliability, we exist now since 2010.
So it's been just 15 years.
It's actually not counting the fork we did in 2010.
So if we go back there, we are there from since more than 24 years.
And it's really important because the average lifetime of an LMS in the US Academy is 11 years.
So being there for more than 11 years is really important to show reliability.
In terms of rich, we are almost at 40 million users.
We're missing like 100,000 users.
We now have a rhythm of about 4 million new users every year.
That use our software through about 80,000 different installations in more than 180 countries.
Although ease of use is like our main focus because we think that the only way we can get better education to people that are not really knowledgeable in the digital environment.
We also focus on efficiency.
And that allows us, for example, to have a small school server run on a Raspberry P B Plus, which is a device from 2014.
The impact of open source on our project is there are a lot of different impacts.
But one of the bad impacts is the high maintenance cost.
Because we're doing everything publicly, really adds to the cost of maintenance of the project.
So infrastructure that has to be public, time that has to be spent on put requests, time on security issues, time on developing documentation.
Everything takes time anyway in software, but it takes more time to do it publicly.
However, we believe that open source is the most efficient way to spread the software and make it available to a lot of people.
It's also a big pusher for transparency and security because we cannot really hide anything.
And we really love the fact that we have access to a worldwide community of people that are really motivated to do good everyday.
The benefits of being included in the DPGs is still too early to talk about that.
But last year we saw a conference from Amrin talking about the DPGs.
So we decided to subscribe to register to be approved as a DPG.
It's a bit like a small ISO process.
We have a series of documents and show that we comply with all the requirements.
But it's actually great to do with thought that it was really a place to be for us because of our vision and our mission.
But otherwise we just hope that this will give us increased visibility because the project itself already works.
There's a lot of people using it.
So just more visibility means more impact on quality education.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Janik for all your incredible work.
And thank you all for being here today and for your incredible contributions.
And you heard from some of the amazing DPGs here today.
And we have many more participating in the dev rooms.
So example the energy dev room, the government collaboration dev room as well.
And of course we have our very own DPGs stand as well.
So please visit them while you're here at first time.
And lastly I would just like to say that with only five years left to achieve the UN SDGs,
the time to act is now, right?
So let's scale digital public goods harness open source innovation and drive some real world impact.
Thank you everyone.
Thank you.