Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V.
Acronym: OSBA
General Information
Identification Code: 198062214849-28
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Entity Form: Eingetragener Verein
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 11/3/2014
Last Update: 2/1/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The Open Source Business Alliance – Federal Association for Digital Sovereignty (OSB Alliance) represents more than 200 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.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Communication
- Digital economy and society
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- european
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Pariser Platz 6a
Post Code: 10117
City: Berlin
Country: GERMANY
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EU Office
Address: Pariser Platz 6a
Post Code: 10117
City: Berlin
Country: GERMANY
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Complementary 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.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 1
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.10000000149011612
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: 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
Organisation Members: Association Professionelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre (APELL): www.apell.info
German User Unix Group e.V. (GUUG): www.guug.de
Eclipse Foundation Inc.: www.eclipse.org
European Society for Digital Sovereignty e.V. (ESfDS): www.esfds.eu
The Linux Foundation (LF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org
OpenInfra Foundation (OIF): www.openinfra.dev
Open Source Security Foundation (OSSF): https://openssf.org/