Positioning software source code as digital heritage for sustainable development | UNESCO

"The second annual symposium on the theme “Software Source Code as documentary heritage and an enabler for sustainable development” organized by UNESCO and the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) on 7 February 2023, took stock of the initiative’s achievements over the previous few years. Throughout the conference, five major dimensions of software source code were explored: as documentary heritage and as an enabler for digital skills education. as a first-class research object in the open science ecosystem. as an enabler for innovation and sharing in industry and administration. its perspectives on long term preservation. technological advances allowing massive analysis of software source code...."