OpenForum Academy Symposium 2024

Open Source in the Global Digital Economy

The OFA Symposium is the only academic conference covering questions relating to the social, political and economic impact of Open Source. The Symposium enables the linking of research agendas, growth of the research community, and the understanding of the societal value of Open Source.

The 2023 edition of the OFA Symposium at TU Berlin set the OFA’s agenda for Open Source research for the coming years. The 2024 edition is hosted by the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard to evolve the concept even further and raise the ambition level of the quality and impact of academic open source research.

The OFA Symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to Harvard Business School, Boston, in order to explore the transformative power of Open Source software and hardware.

Under the theme Open Source in the Global Digital Economy the OFA Symposium will focus on the social, political, and economic implications of open source. We will examine how open source is changing the way we work, communicate, and interact with each other, and how it is shaping the future of technology and society.