Open source skills could help drive UK economic growth

Open Source contributed 27 percent of the UK tech sector's Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2022, according to a new report from OpenUK, the non-profit organization representing the UK’s open technology sector. The report finds that there are 3.2 million GitHub accounts in the UK and 8,200 UK contributors to open source projects in the past year. There have also been1,700 new contributors to open source projects in the last 12 months, representing 20.7 percent growth. It describes open source software as the 'submarine under the digital economy' in that it underlies all technology ecosystems whether the internet, cloud, AI… [Continue Reading]