Το αντίκτυπο και η σημασία των αναδυόμενων τεχνολογιών στις κοινότητες ανοιχτού λογισμικού στην Ελλάδα

The open source movement has brought unprecedented disruption to the world in terms of sharing information for the greater good of the community and not just the individual. As technology is evolving, the applications and their impact that are emanating from the open source movement core values, are disrupting our world (society, business, government). Open source code and open data have been until today the forunners of openness. Nowadays, a new form of technology is emerging, that one of the distributed ledgers (commonly known as blockchain) which changes the way information is transmitted over a network and thus, this new shift enables the principles of open source movement to flourish into our society. This dissertation explores how Greece is performing in this respect, by collecting the views of experts of the Greek “open” ecosystem - key players, best practices, bottlenecks, legislation and previsions for the future - and by discussing the most prominent Greek applications of the open movement, the decentralized government of Heraklion and the transparency portal “diavgeia” of the Greek government