Existing policies that benefit free and open source software in European public services

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1. The information and views set out in this presentation are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of this presentation.

A list

1. Comprehensive, holistic policies
2. Listing open standards
3. Focus on procurement
4. Focus on development
5. Simply setting targets
6. A wider context
7. Measuring maturity
8. To be done (IMHO)

Holistic list

• France: Circulaire Ayrault
• United Kingdom: Technology Code of Practice

• Estonia: Information Society Strategy 2013
• Italy: Developers Italia (Fosdem, Saturday 10:50 K.4.601)
• Italy: Codice Amministrazione Digitale art 68
• Spain: Guía de publicación y licenciamiento de activos
• Basque Country Decree

Open standards lists

• France: Référence Général d’Intéropérabilité (RGI)
• United Kingdom: Technology Code of Practice
• Netherlands: Include development and maintenance
• Sweden: Mandatory IT standards
• Portugal: National Digital Interoperability Regulation (RNID)
• Spain Guía de publicación y licenciamiento de activos

Procurement checklist

• Sweden: 2012 & 2016
• United Kingdom: start here

Development docket

• Sweden: make your contractor responsible
• Bulgaria: share it on "GitHub" from day one

Target levels

Simply by setting targets, following the USA:

• Slovakia
• Poland
• Hungary

Wider Context

• Tallinn Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment
• European Commission's Open Source Software Strategy
• European Interoperability Framework
• Promoting sharing and reuse of IT solutions
• OGP open source statement
• OECD's Open Government Toolkit
• Europen Union PSI Directive
• EUPL

Maturity Model

• Make it a task for the CIO
• Mandate open standards
• Manage change
• Join the communities

To be done

Advocacy

• souvereignty
• innovate, modernise
• create an independent industry, create jobs,
• campaigns

Credits

• Thanks to Clémentine Valayer and others for their valuable comments
• Thanks to the herculean Debian, Emacs, Org-mode, and Reveal.js