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Zin Lwin
18th July 2023

OpenUK supports Open Innovation – not Open Source release of Llama 2 by Meta – July 2023

OpenUK supports Meta in Community Licensing of Llama 2 AI Large Language Model   New open innovation licence shares Llama 2 Large Language Model (LLM)...

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Zin Lwin
18th July 2023

OpenUK – Press Release – State of Open UK Phase 2 AI research – July 2023

OpenUK launches “AI Openness” report, finds potential for UK leadership New report claims transparency and trust will be at the future of AI development through...

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Zin Lwin
17th July 2023

OpenUK – Press release – State of Open UK Phase 2 Economy Research – July 2023

Open Source contributes £13.59 billion GVA to UK economy, finds OpenUK   Open Source makes up 27 percent of UK tech sector economy in 2022...

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Michelle Angert
6th December 2022

OpenUK and IEEE launch State of Open Con 2023

OpenUK and IEEE launch State of Open Con 2023   Conference to bring together experts in open source around platform engineering, data, security, entrepreneurship, hardware,...

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Michelle Angert
6th October 2022

OpenUK and OpenSSF announce open source security and community curation event schedule

Day conference to cover the challenges and opportunities of building future digital infrastructure using open source   London, UK – 5th October 2022 – OpenUK,...

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May Cheung
8th March 2022

More than three quarters of women think tech sector needs to provide more support, according to OpenUK

Attendees at first OpenUK / OVHcloud International Women’s Day Lunch heard from Afghanistan Judges on oppression, and importance of law, policy and technology to equality...

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Open UK
11th November 2021

OpenUK donates data centre energy efficiency blueprint Patchwork Kilt to Eclipse Foundation

New blueprint supports carbon neutral and carbon negative projects that aim to make implementations more efficient, contributing to circular economy and net zero goals. Glasgow,...

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Open UK
28th October 2021

OpenUK announces initial speakers for Open Technology for Sustainability Day at COP26

Keynote session by Lord Maude of Horsham will take place alongside panel sessions on the Energy Sector and Open Data, Collaboration, and Supply Chain Transparency...

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Open UK
13th October 2021

Open Source Software contributed an estimated £46.5bn to UK business in 2020, according to OpenUK

Ahead of Open Technology for Sustainability Day at COP26, research report aims to overcome lack of consensus on what is measured and how the value...

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OpenUK
15th September 2021

5000 UK Kids to receive free Digital Glove from OpenUK enabling access to OpenUK free Digital Skills Camp

1200 Digitally excluded young people will receive Gloves complete with micro:bit 2’s 100 Schools and Community groups will each receive 30 Gloves 800 children will...

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