Trust, Control, and Digital Sovereignty with Open Source

Governments, foundations, and researchers increasingly treat open source not as a licensing preference but as strategic infrastructure. Most technology choices force a trade-off between being able to verify a system (trust) and being able to control it (independence from the party that built it). Open source is repeatedly framed as one of the few models capable of offering both at once, because the same open codebase that lets outsiders audit it is also the one an owner can modify, self-host, or fork without permission. This talk will discuss how to look at open source and how trust and control around open source work and tensions.