Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V.
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Open Source Business Alliance – Federal Association for Digital Sovereignty (OSB Alliance) represents more than 260 companies from the open source industry that together employ around 95,000 employees and generate more than 126.8 billion euros in annual revenues in Germany. Scientific institutions and software users are also part of our association. Together we are committed to further open source software and open standards for a digitally sovereign society. The digital transformation should benefit companies, governments, public administrations and citizens alike. We advocate that open source should be established as the standard in public procurement and in research and business development. To work towards these goals we offer our expertise and knowledge to companies, private individuals, the media and politicians.
EU Legislative Interests
European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy Public Procurement Directive European Commission Omnibus Digital Markets Act Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on liability for defective products Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts New European Interoperability Framework
Communication Activities
For our communication efforts we mainly publish statements on our website and/or send out press releases with regard to the issues we are interested in. See for example our statements regarding the Cyber Resilience Act on our website in german: 1) https://osb-alliance.de/pressemitteilungen/stellungnahme-zum-cyber-resilience-act In English: https://osb-alliance.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OSB-Alliance-Statement-on-the-CRA.pdf 2) https://osb-alliance.de/featured/cyber-resilience-act-beruecksichtigt-besonderheiten-des-open-source-oekosystems We also sometimes publish commentaries in national news outlets about these regulations and issues, see for example: https://background.tagesspiegel.de/it-und-cybersicherheit/briefing/der-cyber-resilience-act-hat-open-source-software-nicht-verstanden We also sometimes participate in the Calls for Evidence with regard to upcoming legislation like the Public Procurement Directive.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Association Professionelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre (APELL): www.apell.info Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN): https://www.din.de/de Eclipse Foundation Inc.: www.eclipse.org Ecma International: https://ecma-international.org/ German User Unix Group e.V. (GUUG): www.guug.de The Linux Foundation (LF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org OpenInfra Foundation (OIF): www.openinfra.dev Open Source Security Foundation (OSSF): https://openssf.org/
Organisation Members
Our members: https://osb-alliance.de/mitglieder Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS): https://scs.community/de/ Enabling green COmputing and DIGItal Transformation (ECO-DIGIT): https://gi.de/aktuelles/projekte/eco-digit
Additional Information
We do not maintain an office in Brussels and the members of our association as well as the members of the board work are volunteering their time when working for the association.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.