FOSS Backstage 2025

Omar Mohsine

Omar Mohsine is a member of the United Nations Office of Digital and Emerging Technologies . He additionally leads the open source team within the UN Office of Information and Communication Technologies and serves as the co-chair of the UN Open Source Community of Practice.
With over 15 years of experience working in various capacities across different continents, Omar has spearheaded numerous projects for the UN, focusing on public-private partnerships and innovation management. He has also designed UN open source competitions aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Omar is deeply committed to building new partnerships with technology stakeholders to support the United Nations’ mandate.


Session

03-10
12:10
40min
OSPOs for Good! Achieving the UN SDGs with Open Source
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring, Nicholas Gates, Jutta Horstmann ‏‏‎ ‎, Omar Mohsine, Sachiko Muto

Through the establishment of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) and other collaboration mechanisms around the world, new opportunities abound for the UN to support the open source community in supercharging innovations and enabling governments to achieve the 2030 agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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