Critical success factors for open source in public services

Disclaimers

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.
Free software and open source software are synonyms

Examples

National	UK: GDS Open Source Lead, FR: CIO/DINSIC, IT: Team Digitale
Multi-municipal	DK: OS2, NO: Kongsberg, BE: Imio, SE: Kivos, FR: eBourgogne
Municipality	ES: Digital Commissioner of Barcelona, DE: Mayor of Munich
Region	Basque Country CIO
Organisation	Online-Sicherheitsprüfung, Eurocontrol

Examples

policies	Tallinn 2017 eGovernment declaration
	United Kingdom
	France
	Netherlands
	Spain
	Estonia
lists	Sweden
ISA² projects	Sharing and Reuse Framework
	EIF
	CAMSS

Open standards (bis): Use HTMl5 (and CSS3)

Examples

EC OpenEuropa	hire enough open source skills, see organisation change
Nantes FR	organises improvements to LibreOffice
GDS UK	give staff time to work on open source
Munich DE	contributor to open source projects
DINSIC FR	hackathons
Developers Italia IT	summer of code
Helsinki FI	require skills, in-house and suppliers
Amsterdam NL	'Source code is policy executed by machines'
Kammarkollegiet SE	suppliers push code upstream
Barcelona ES	work with the citizens (NGOs)

Tallinn: 2017 Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment
- use open source solutions & open standards
- avoid IT vendor lock-in
- share solutions publicly
- encourage reuse by private sector and citizens
France: main points: Digital Law & rules on Public Sector Information
- open source culture
- Ayrault memo (see link above)
- OGP open source statement
- public sector information
  - source code for students university admission allotment
  - source code for tax
UK:
- Open Standards Policy
- Open source policy
the two extreme ends of how public administrations can contribute to open source: Bulgaria: post software on github (or other repositories) yourself, or as in Sweden: make contractors (the companies) responsible for this
Other:

Setting targets, following the USA: Slovakia, Poland, Hungary.

raising awareness
improving advocacy
fix procurement
what can you do?
raise awarenes: political & organisational awareness,
open source results in inclusion, not extraction
other economic benefits (side effects), sharing & reuse, close fit to public administration, positive economic externalities, autonomy & sovereignty
advocacy: at least one group in each Member State, and they should organise meaningful European cooperation
OSOR shows & experts agree: procurement laws are broken too often, very little we can do: this needs to be fixed
countries need resource centres, we need academics to catalogue the best practices, we need financial instruments, improve our laws & policies
endless stories of kick-backs, corruption, lock,in, carelessness, revolving doors
eroding trust in government

Thanks to our European Commission for making this possible
Thanks to Clémentine Valayer, Terence Eden, Georges Lobo, Szabolcs Szekacs, Daniel Melin, Karsten Gerloff, Eric Ficheux, Laurent Joubert, and many others for their valuable comments
Thanks to the herculean Debian, Emacs, Org-mode, and Reveal.js