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Dear Readers,
Today, we share our recommendations to UK Research and Innovation, in respect o making the UK the Home of Open Source, as we move towards the next phase and consulting industry experts on building a National Open Source “Foundation” for the UK. We’re happy to receive comments from interested parties.
A busy international focus in the last few weeks has seen us take on a key role at the AI Impact Summit in India and produce a report in real time to share the AI openness conversation with everyone. This saw a significant positive step in the open source conversation being central for the first time in a summit, but some disappointing outputs failing to understand the central tenants of open source.
We were delighted to see the UK AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan, MP announce that the “UK will be the home of open source AI” and to have worked with him and some of our community – David Soria Parras, Kunal Kushawa, Dr Laura Gilbert, CBE, Matt Barker, and Sal Kimmich to bring this video together for the Summit and to share this with an audience of 1200 attendees at the High Commission party hosted by UK High Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron, and to launch this with Kanishka and I speaking.
OpenUK Proposes a UK National Open Source Foundation
Having won a competitive tender to advise UK Research and Innovation on sustainable infrastructure, OpenUK has today publicly shared a short paper of its recommendations including the build of a National Open Source Foundation, with an incubator/ accelerator to support economic development. The proposed model would be replicable and of benefit to all nations.
We are now commencing our second phase of work on this project, building out the model and will be consulting colleagues in the UK and internationally, to learn from experience and hear their guidance.
You can read the high level proposals in this short public report, enabling the UK to become the Home of Open Source AI, an aspiration shared recently by our UK AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan MP.
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Recommendations for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure
MWC
Following a productive few days at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, OpenUK will be hosting a Leaders’ Lunch with the Smart Internet Labs’ Joiner Platform on 19th March in London, to focus on AI for networks. We’ll also be producing a short paper afterwards to share the discussion. If you are a leader in the telco sector and would like to join us please message, mailto:admin@openuk.uk
India AI Impact Summit Review
OpenUK and its sister OpenHQ, attended the India AI Impact Summit, participating with our colleagues in multiple events, hosting two of our own events – a Workshop on “MCP, Open Standards and Data” and a panel focused on resilience “Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI – how can open source support this?” moderated by Amanda Brock with Jimmy Wales, Laura Gilbert CBE, Anastasia Stasenko and Mishi Choudary.
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OpenUK in the Press
- CEO Amanda Brock is included in 15 women who inspire by The Beautiful Truth on International Women’s Day – 4 March
- Amanda Brock listed by Compute Forecast Impact Power List – 3 March
- CEO Amanda Brock writes On the ground at India’s AI Impact Summit in two parts article for Computing, Part 1, Part 2
- Good Returns reports GR Exclusive: Open-Source AI Is India’s Biggest Chance to Lead Global Tech Race, Says OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock – 25 Feb
- CIOL reports At India’s AI Impact Summit, OpenUK Makes the Case for Open Source Governance – 25 Feb
- Firstpost reports ‘Open-source AI offers universal access’: OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock on democratising AI – 24 Feb
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ITPro reports Is software optimization a lost art? – 4 Feb
- Business Standard reports From aspiration to action: The promise of the India AI Impact Summit – 3 Feb
OpenUK in the Podcast
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We will shortly be announcing our new suite of OpenUK and OpenHQ Ambassadors.
If you are interested in being more involved in our work, do let us know by dropping us a note mailto:admin@openuk.uk. Please follow us on LinkedIn to keep up with our news as it happens between newsletters.
We are currently renewing annual sponsorships and working with partners on various events, including small group dinners, SOOCon26 on the road and of course, our Awards sponsorship.
We are also recruiting new members of the team and looking for a community and events manager and a research and policy managers – you can find the job descriptions and application requirements at openuk.uk/recruitment.
Best wishes,
Amanda
Professor Amanda Brock, CEO
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