UN Open Source Week homepage

Citation

United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) and United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT). “UN Open Source Week 2026.” Web page, unopensource.org, date not stated. https://www.unopensource.org/. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

• UN Open Source Week 2026 was at UN Headquarters, New York, June 22 to 26, 2026: “1000+” attendees, 123 countries, “270+” speakers. ODET and OICT co-organize it.
• Its Tuesday is “Open Source for AI and Emerging Technologies (Open Source x AI)”. Thursday is “OSPOs for Good” (Open Source Program Offices).
• The homepage is mostly an agenda summary.

Background

See UN Open Source Office.

Key claims

• The event is “the premier global forum for advancing open source collaboration in direct support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Digital Compact.”
• Topics include “artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)”.
• Days:
  • June 22, UN Tech Over
  • June 23, Open Source x AI
  • June 24, DPI Day
  • June 25, OSPOs for Good
  • June 26, community-led side events
• Open Source x AI “assesses the potential of open source as a gateway to establishing a sustainable AI future” and aims to “bridge digital divides, promote responsible AI development, and build AI capacity.”
• OSPOs for Good shows “best practices to accelerate open source adoption across UN agencies, governments, and private sector institutions.”

Evidence and method

The organizers’ own event page. About 950 words, mostly agenda text.

Pages taken, and why:

• UN Open Source Week 2026 agenda: the sessions of the AI day and the university OSPO session with UC Santa Cruz.
• UN Open Source Week 2025: the scale of the 2025 event.
• UN Open Source Week 2025 Conference Report: the only document on the site with findings on OSPOs, open AI and governance.

Limits

• Event marketing. The figures are the organizers’ own. The site is built on a web template, and some menu links go to the template’s demo pages.
• The page does not name the “UN Open Source Office”. It names ODET and OICT.