Open Source Hardware and the Circular Economy | OSL2020

With John Laban, European Director @ Open Compute Project Foundation

- The new EU Green Deal is built on the 21st century embedded economy model which has at its core sits the 'open source technology collaborative commons' plus the Circular Economy and decarbonisation.

The EU Commission is driving extensive research as evidence for new EU policies in: Data Centre Circular Economy; Open Source Hardware and Open Source Software for publicly funded ICT; Decarbonisation addressing embodied CO2 through its EU border CO2 taxes; Circular Economy.

I shall weave together the above disruptions to show how open source technologies and collaboration is key to addressing issues of rapid climate action and how this results in 80% decarbonisation and 90% dematerialistion of Data Centres and the digital infrastructure.

The story will inform, educate and entertain and hopefully make you smile at least once.

There are no prerequisites other than an open mind and basic English.