Alolita has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for almost 2 decades, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations. She has been CEO of Technetra and has over 15 years in the industry. She served on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and currently serves a board member at SFLC (sflc.in).