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United Nations
Logo of the United Nations.svg
NIST Sector Wellbeing
GICS Industrial Commercial & Professional Services
Smart Tag(s)
Business type Nonprofit
Year Founded June 26, 1945
Founder(s) League of Nations
City, State New York NY
Country United States
Region Served Worldwide
Executives António Guterres
Revenue 3560000000$ 3.56 <br />€ 3.133 <br />£ 2.634 <br />CA$ 4.521 <br />CNY 22.535 <br />
Number of employees 37000
Sponsorship Level Of Interest
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To maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.


Details

The United Nations (UN) is the world's largest international organization. The UN is headquartered in New York City, in international territory with certain privileges extraterritorial to the United States, and the UN has other offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, where the International Court of Justice is headquartered at the Peace Palace.

Cities

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. UN-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system.

UN-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty.

in 2022 UN-Habitat published a cities report "Envisaging the Future of Cities"

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Open Source

In July 2024 the UN hosted the "OSPOs for Good 2024" conference. This event provided a rich global presence of diverse open source thinkers, with bigger ambitions and strides for championing OSPOs as a global network for good.

By building on the success of the first OSPOs for Good event in 2023 the 2024 event, the goal of the 2024 conference delivered high-level thematic tracks that addressed key areas of open source policy, as well as highlighting emerging examples of ‘open source for good’ from across the globe. It prominently highlighted the theme of ‘open source networks as enablers of global cooperation’.

This conference expanded the scope of last year's event to focus on how the conversation around OSPOs is enabling new forms of global cooperation around open source for good in countries. The two days were recorded and these recordings are here:

Day 1 Part 1
Day 1 Part 1
09:30 – 10:00 Opening Plenary: Embracing Open Source Technology to Achieve the SDGs
Amandeep Singh Gill, Astor Carlberg, Bernardo Mariano Junior, Hans Vestberg, Markus Richter, Philip Thigo
10:00 – 11:30 Open Source and AI
Keynote: Phlllip Thigo
Panel: Ashley Kramer, Craig Ramlal, Mehdi Snene, Sasha Luccioni, Sergio Gaggo Huerta, Stefano Maffulli
11:30 – 12:30 Open Source in the Global South
Panel: Armando J. Manzueta Peña, Ben Cerveny, Mitchell Baker, Rahul Kulkarni, Talla Kebe
Day 1 Part 2
Day 1 Part 2
13:30 – 15:00 Open Source at the UN
Keynote: Tawfik Jelassi
Panel: Lucy Harris, Omar Mohsine, Robert Opp, Sameer Chauhan, Sunita Grote, Vincent Martin
15:00 – 16:00 Reboot the Earth
16:00 – 17:30 Open Source and Governments
Keynote: Pearse O’Donohue
Panel: Aeva Black, Bastien Guerry, H.E. Bayissa Badada, Juliano Seabra, Markus Richter, Sarah Espaldon
Day 2 Part 1
Day 2 Part 1
09:30 – 11:00 Open Source at Work in the World
Keynote: Adriana Groh, Andreas Reckert-Lodde
Panel: Anir Chowdhury, David Nalley, Demetris Cheatham, Mike Milinkovich, Sophia Vargas
11:00 – 12:00 Devrooms: Open Source at Work in the World
  • Open Science and Research
  • Open Source Education and Skills
  • Open Source for Climate and Health
Day 2 Part 2
Day 2 Part 2
13:00 – 14:00 Spotlight Panel: Youth and Open Source
14:00 – 15:30 Open Source Networked Cities
Panel: Dirk Schrödter, Gesa Ziemer, Jacob Green, Lindsay J Thompson, Mark Anthony Thomas, Richard Gevers, Viraj Tiyagi
15:30 – 16:30 Engaging the Open Source Community
Panel: Arun Gupta, Hillary Carter, Omkhar Arasaratnam, Sachiko Muto, Tajh Taylor
16:30 – 17:00 Closing Plenary: The Next Decade: Envisioning the Future of Open Source