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Chief Open Source Officer - You asked, I'm delivering!

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 12, 2025

I am really pleased to announce that the 1st run of the executive level program called “Chief Open Source Officer” will be held in April 2025.

We all know that open source software, hardware, data and methods is the baseline of how the world today benefits in all industries, governments, academia, NGOs, global NGOs, and the civil society.

We also recognize that not all of those in positions of decision making have a background in technology, let alone open source technologies and the norms and values that made open source so successful.

With that preamble, I am collaborating with the forward thinking Singapore Institute of Technology‘s SITLearn to offer a 4-week, executive level program called “Chief Open Source Officer“.

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