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Critical digital infrastructure spans the globe, and governing, funding and sustaining it requires international cooperation. That’s why the Sovereign Tech Agency proposed a new policy network to the Internet Governance Forum that's dedicated to this issue. It is now starting its work and you can join in. Open digital infrastructure is foundational to modern society and the global economy:…
Ten open source maintainers make up the first cohort of the Sovereign Tech Standards network. They are bringing hands-on expertise from critical open source infrastructure into standards development, helping shape better, more secure, and more interoperable technology. Too often, open source maintainers aren't part of standards development, even though these standards directly shape the critical…
Sovereign Tech Agency CEO Adriana Groh was invited to contribute a guest article to Behörden Spiegel, a leading German publication on public administration, for its special issue on digital sovereignty. Below is the article in English; the German version is available here: „Digitale Souveränität in Aktion“ The publication can be requested free of charge and will be sent by email after submitting…
Email newsletter on 9 July 2026: UN Open Source Week, Digital Commons EDIC Kick-off, hiring & more The Sovereign Tech Agency was in New York for UN Open Source Week in June, hosting the Maintain-a-thon and shaping the week's conversations on strengthening open digital infrastructure. The Internet Governance Forum approved the creation of a new policy network on open digital infrastructure, which…
For the fourth year in a row, we took part in UN Open Source Week in New York City. This year's participation made tangible progress toward better maintaining, protecting, and strengthening our digital common goods and global infrastructure through shared responsibility, collaboration, and international cooperation. As the first European organization to strategically invest in open digital…
For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency and the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies are convening open source maintainers in New York for a maintain-a-thon: bringing together the experts building and maintaining critical digital infrastructure. The first maintain-a-thon showed the value of bringing open source maintainers together across projects, communities, and…
Nine open source experts are joining the Sovereign Tech Agency at UN Open Source Week 2026 in New York. They maintain some of the world's most widely used open technologies, and they're bringing practitioner perspectives to an international forum on sustaining and securing open source infrastructure. For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency is bringing a delegation of open source maintainers…
Email newsletter on 8 June 2026: New partnership with DIN, insights from our survey, new fellows & hiring Last week, we announced a new partnership with DIN for the Sovereign Tech Standards network. Building on a newly signed memorandum of understanding, we will work together to strengthen open source participation in international standards development. Before launching the Sovereign Tech…
After a successful pilot program in 2025 , the Sovereign Tech Fellowship is expanding. The 2026 cohort brings together 14 maintainers, community managers, and technical writers working across Rust, Python, and a range of other critical open source ecosystems, with a shared focus on security, sustainability, and community The Sovereign Tech Fellowship provides flexible, targeted support to the…
We have signed a memorandum of understanding with DIN, the German Institute for Standardization, to strengthen open source participation in international standards development. Open source maintainers build digital infrastructure, but they’re rarely present where the technical rules governing these technologies are written. Participation in international standards bodies takes time, expertise, and…
