Welcome to this first edition of the Digital Resilience Forum. A central place for discussion on how to make our software-driven societies, public and private services, and digital infrastructure more sustainable over time.

Resiliency is a term that embraces different layers in our society, from politics and policymakers to industry and academics. And this resiliency relies nowadays mainly on software. However, software is not part of today’s society discussions. In this polarized world, where politics are noisy and barriers are growing across countries, software is still one of the few places where collaboration is reinforced and makes sense.

Today’s software building blocks are mainly open source related. Studies claim that any new modern application contains up to 90% of existing open source technology. This is indeed key for innovation, fast development, and any new company will choose open source by default.

This is positioning open source in a very interesting way, and this is politics. Open source is now a strategic asset, but given the nature of its development as geographically distributed, this is owned by everyone and by no one. And this opens great opportunities to make our societies and the services we rely on more independent from third parties, while at the same time, preserving the pace of technology innovation.

And yes, open source has its own gravity in this forum as this is literally everywhere, but open source does not have all the answers to our questions. However…