The Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 specifically reflects its supports to the development of open source community for digital technology and encourages enterprises to open the source code, design of hardware and application services. Facilitated by the Outline, China has established more than 500 open-source communities as of 2022, covering sectors of database, Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud computing, etc. To help relevant stakeholders to have a clear picture of role of standardization in facilitating the open source development in China, on 5 July, Dr. Betty XU, SESEC’s Director, gave introduction on the overview situation, government policies, open-source standardization, issues and challenges, as well as possible trends and next steps. In the webinar, Dr. Betty Xu points out that:
- Insufficient standardization level in the open-source rules and governance bring quality and security issues;
- The open-source community has a poor understanding of the value of standardization;
- Standardization organizations need to improve their understanding on the value of open source;
- Intellectual property issues in standards are challenges in collaboration with open source;
In general, though challenges do exist, high priority is given in this field by China.
If you would like to know more, please forward us an email (assistant@sesec.eu) for webinar slides and recordings.
