Open Digital Infrastructure

Open Digital Infrastructure represents the set of open-source code, standards and knowledge assets that digital building blocks like software libraries, compilers, communication or network protocols are composed of.

They are created by individuals, volunteer communities, in research institutions and SMEs or other corporate environments. Together, they form a foundation of free and public code that is designed to solve common challenges – firstly, in programming, but when applied, also to provide a multitude of core functions for society.

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Fostering Open Collaboration

Will cross-company visibility into shared free and open source dependencies lead to cross-company collaboration and efforts to sustain shared dependencies?

Research Question
Can shared insight into open source dependencies drive cross-company collaboration and support for long-term maintenance?
Why is this important to answer?

Organizations that contribute to their free and open source dependencies often do so in isolation, looking only at their own dependencies and how important they are to the organization. By executing a common dependency analysis framework, organizations can easily share dependency information with consistency, opening up conversations about the importance of shared dependencies across organizational boundaries and across the wider open source ecosystem. Will cross-organizational visibility into these shared dependencies lead to cross-organizational collaboration, contribution and investment in dependency maintenance?

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