United Nations Open Source Week 2026

I was among the delegation of “open source experts” invited to the UN Open Source Week 2026 in New York City by the Sovereign Tech Agency. Thank you to the Sovereign Tech Agency for inviting and supporting my stay and travel for the event. Thanks to Alpha-Omega for sponsoring my position at the Python Software Foundation. UN Open Source Week is a week-long event with a different focus for each day. In order, the focuses were: Maintain-a-thon (UN Tech Over), Open Source × AI, Digital Public Infrastructure Day, OSPOs for Good, and Community Day. The event is structured into a series of presentations, panels, parallel sessions, interactive break-outs that start in the morning and carry on through into the evening at local partnered events. Themes After speaking with many folks and attending a week of sessions, there were themes that carried through the entirety of the event: Power, resources, and talent around LLM technologies are currently concentrated into the control and geographical…