Digital Commons, Ethical Standards and Free Software for Cities

This event wants to open the debate on the impact that new technologies have on cities and the need for them to use open standards and free software for citizens. It is a one-day even that includes conferences, demonstrations and debates open to digital communities, companies, universities and the general public.

Morning session: FlossBcn Conversations (ESP) Flossbcn is a non-profit and grassroots community whose mission is to become a platform and a summit for professionals, companies, researchers, and students inside the scope of FreeLibre and Open Source Software to discuss and share experiences also promoting events where everybody with an interest in FLOSS is welcome to exchange their knowledge. We want to grow the free software community in Barcelona and scale solutions to tackle companies and the city’s challenges.

9:00 Registration

9:30-10:00 Keynote: Javier Ruiz Head of Policy Open Rights Group

10:00-10:30 Open Source Community Management: How communities can save your project

10:30-11:00 Digital infrastructures as Digital commons

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:15 Building a free software ecosystem in Barcelona

12:15-12:45 Empowering Women in open source

12:45-13:30 Distributed technologies for data sovereignty: DECODE Barcelona Pilots

13:30-14:00 Blockchain for the social good

14:00-15:00 Lunch break

Afternoon session: Conferences & panels A set of conferences and panels gathering both international and national speakers targeting digital standards, digital commons and free software in cities.

15:00-15:10 Institutional Welcome Gala Pin, Councillor, Barcelona City Hall

15:10-15:30 Free and open source software to build global learning communities: The case of Moodle 15:30-16:45 Panel – Ethical digital standards and free software in cities

16:45-17:10 Keynote: Championing open source and the free and open web: what’s the future Agenda?

17:10-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-17:50 Open source and digital transformation to make Government better: The Italian Digital Team case

17:50-19:00 Panel – Citizen laboratories in the digital city Evening session: FlossBCN & Beers (ESP+ENG)

19:00-21:00 FlossBCN & Beers: The summit for practitioners, researchers and citizens in general within the Free Software world.

Organized by: Commissioner of Technology and Digital Innovation together with SokoTech, Decidim Barcelona and the FLOSSBCN community.