We’re #hiring a Program Manager to lead our #SovereignTechResilience Program! In this role, you’ll take hands-on ownership of one of our key programs dedicated to protecting critical #opensource infrastructure: security audits, memory safety, and post-quantum encryption readiness. (1/3)

Wir suchen eine*n Kaufmännische*n Mitarbeiter*in, der*die mit Struktur und Sorgfalt dazu beiträgt, dass die Sovereign Tech Agency weiter wirksam arbeiten und wachsen kann. (1/3)

Adriana Groh wrote “The Invisible Foundation of Digital Sovereignty” for the latest special issue of Behörden Spiegel dedicated to digital sovereignty. (1/4)

Meet the first cohort of the #SovereignTechStandards network! Antoine d’Aligny, @dansup.bsky.social, Heiko Schäfer, Job Snijders, Kacper Dalach, @lolaodelola.bsky.social, Marten Seemann, Martine Lenders, Mike Pennisi, and @swc.bsky.social. (1/4)

📣  The new Internet Governance Forum Policy Network on Open Digital Infrastructure is kicking off on Monday, July 27! Critical open source infrastructure crosses national borders, and the policies and resources that support it need international coordination. (1/4)

This week at #IETF126 in Vienna, the Sovereign Tech Standards network is on the ground, working on standards that keep internet traffic from being misdirected, make encrypted email trustworthy and usable, bring secure connections to small devices, and improve how data travels across the modern web.

Adriana Groh hat für die aktuelle Sonderausgabe des Behörden Spiegels zum Thema digitale Souveränität den Gastbeitrag „Das unsichtbare Fundament digitaler Souveränität“ verfasst.

Wir suchen eine*n Programm-Manager*in, der*die das #SovereignTechFellowship und das #SovereignTechStandards Netzwerk leitet, zwei kohortenbasierte Programme, zur strukturellen Unterstützung von Open-Source-Maintainer*innen und Mitwirkenden.

For the fourth year in a row, we took part in UN Open Source Week in New York City. In addition to hosting this year’s maintain-a-thon as well as a breakfast reception in the German House, we contributed across multiple sessions, including panels at OSPOs for Good and community-led side events.

In early June, we announced that we had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. (the German Institute for Standardization) to strengthen open source participation in international standards development. Photo: Peter-Paul Weiler

Final stretch at UN Open Source Week! 🏁 Today, we're joining the Community-Led Side Events organized by RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), @openforumeurope.org, @curiossorg.bsky.social, and Red Hat, hosted by IBM.

what the #opensource community has known for years, that these are the roads and bridges of the digital world. “We don't treat investing in open source as charity. It really is something that governments should be involved in in the 21st century.” He spoke to what the Sovereign Tech Agency has 3/

public investment. Critical open source is a classic market failure. The software provides enormous economic and social value, but private actors have little incentive to invest in maintaining it: everyone depends on it, few pay to sustain it. Governments are increasingly recognizing 2/

At #OSPOsforGood Day at #UNOpenSourceWeek, Policy and Research Lead Paul Sharratt spoke to a standing-room-only audience on the panel “Financing Open Source and Digital Public Goods: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach.” Paul made the case for why open source infrastructure requires dedicated 1/

She argued that preserving those choices requires recognizing a cooperative layer beneath the competitive software market: the shared open source infrastructure where governments, companies, and communities all have a role to play. 7/end

self-sufficiency or isolation. She described sovereignty as the ability to participate in and shape tech ecosystems through openness, contribution, and meaningful choice. “Sovereignty in the end means having choices and you can only have choices if we maintain a common foundation to start with.” 6/

and public-interest investment in shared infrastructure. While OSPOs help institutions manage their own relationship with open source software, public investment needs to look beyond individual organizations to the common foundation that everyone relies on. 4/

"Volunteer open source community members shouldn't become involuntary suppliers to services that are extremely critical, not just for businesses, but also for governments, for everyone.” She also drew a distinction between the role of Open Source Program Offices 3/

At #OSPOsforGood Adriana Groh spoke on the opening panel "Open Source and Digital Sovereignty in a Connected World" during #UNOpenSourceWeek 2026. On the role of governments in sustaining #opensource, Adriana argued critical digital infrastructure cannot rely indefinitely on a few maintainers 1/

Program Manager: Fellowship and Standards We are looking for a Program Manager to lead the #SovereignTechFellowship and #SovereignTechStandards network, two cohort-based programs that engage directly with FOSS maintainers and contributors. Apply by 17 July 2026: www.sovereign.tech/jobs/program...

Communications Lead We are looking for an experienced, strategic thinker to lead and develop our communications work. Apply by 15 July 2026: www.sovereign.tech/jobs/communi...

How can we finance, sustain, and scale open source and digital public goods? Our Policy & Research Lead, Paul Sharratt will discuss at #OSPOsforGood Day on Thursday with Armando Manzueta, CV Madhukar, Jon Lloyd, Julia Vieira de Andrade Dias Emendabili, and Pamod Amarkoon about what sustainable

Join us at #OSPOsforGood Day during #UNOpenSourceWeek, where Adriana Groh will speak on the opening panel "Open Source & Digital Sovereignty in a Connected World." Adriana will speak about our unique approach: investing in the open source components, the digital infrastructure of the 21st century.

The talks transitioned into a lively discussion over breakfast: a chance for maintainers, policymakers, and open source leaders to keep talking.

Tiffany Farriss, CEO of Palantir.net and longtime Drupal board member spoke to the structural gap between the economic value generated by open source infrastructure and the resources available to the people who maintain it. She argued that organizations need to move beyond treating open source

Reflecting on his organization’s ten year history, Bastien Guerry, Head of Partnerships at Software Heritage noted that sustaining open source is not only about preserving code, but also about strengthening the infrastructure and services that make collaboration, maintenance, and reuse possible.

but about the shared values that underpin international digital cooperation. Three short talks followed: In his remarks, Wolfgang Gehring, OSPO Lead at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, pointed out how deeply open source has become embedded in modern industry. Mercedes-Benz's latest E-Class, he noted

Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Jarzombek from the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation spoke about Germany's commitment to strengthening open digital infrastructure through international cooperation and multistakeholder governance.

Sovereign Tech Agency Managing Director Adriana Groh welcomed guests from across the open source ecosystem, bringing together representatives from communities, foundations, industry, government, and int'l organizations for a discussion on the long-term stewardship of critical digital infrastructure.

This morning, the Sovereign Tech Agency hosted a breakfast reception at the German House in New York on the theme of “Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: Sustaining Open Source for the Public Good,” at #UNOpenSourceWeek 2026.