<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">Dear all,</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">I'm taking the liberty to share this here.</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Best,</div><div style="text-align:left">Astor<br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-36f20f69-7fff-e988-cd3f-6315f1a15185" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;width:451.276pt"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden"><a href="https://summit.openforumeurope.org/"><img src="cid:ii_kw25aheq0" alt="Twitter Summit save the date.png" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="597" height="336"></a><br></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join us on 4 February 2022 at the annual</span><a href="https://summit.openforumeurope.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EU Open Source Policy Summit</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This conference will happen both in person in Brussels and online. At the EU Open Source Policy Summit, global technology and policy leaders come together to discuss how collaboration and competition are being rethought as we are innovating to solve the complex global challenges we are facing collectively.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://summit.openforumeurope.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">REGISTER TODAY!</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Source & the Grand Challenges</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The grand challenges cannot be tackled by any company or country alone. Climate change, current and future pandemics, digital autonomy, market concentration, and reaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are all pressing issues that underscore the need for new institutional set-ups. But the world’s stakeholders have not been idle: modes of collaboration at a completely new scale are needed to find solutions to complex problems. This takes place in a day-to-day reality that is increasingly digital, where software is ubiquitous, and while we see increased concerns over autonomy in a multi-polar world.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Technologies and Open Source are at the heart of this new reality and are a source for optimism. ‘Open’ lowers the barriers to competition, delivers collaborative innovation, increases welfare, while letting end-users maintain control and autonomy. Open and collaborative digital innovation is no longer a theoretical concept. It is the modus operandi of companies and countries that engage at the cutting edge of the technological and societal innovation needed to tackle the grand challenges.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:medium none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:587px;height:685px"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/2PCOpvMPPhV4RHIkLuvD5xIhFTwRyhDfKarWtMbp2WRFr-RaoujaamfBXr3ohL9UXeShdqNZzwIB6Hqkii1fDB-lE0OQViG8EiVHNYIWluKfLKM_iKmAzoyu3nxeySyK_-Y-EzYO" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="587" height="685"></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Astor Nummelin Carlberg</b><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Policy Director<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OpenForum Europe<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">tel +32 (0)2 486 41 52</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">mob +32 (0)497 69 08 53</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">web <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.openforumeurope.org</a><br>Follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenForumEurope" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@OpenForumEurope</a><br><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">--<br></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="1">OFE
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