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
This talk
- Succes factors - the beginning of a maturity model?
- Key policies
- Expected benefits
- What's missing?
- But first: a little background
Open Source Observatory & Repository
Open source in public administration HOWTO
1. Make free & open source a task for the CIO
| Examples | |
| National | UK GDS Open Source Lead, France CIO/DINSIC |
| Multi-municipal | DK OS2, Norway Kongsberg, Belgium Imio |
| Municipality | Germany Mayor of Munich |
| Region | Basque Country CIO |
| Organisation | Online-Sicherheitsprüfung, Eurocontrol |
2. Open standards, Open API's
| Examples | |
| policies | United Kingdom |
| France | |
| Netherlands | |
| Spain | |
| Estonia | |
| lists | Sweden |
| ISA² projects | Sharing and Reuse Framework |
| EIF | |
| CAMSS |
3. Use HTMl5
| Examples | |
| Supreme Court SI | Leipzig DE |
| Gendarmerie FR | Vienna AT |
| LNEC PT | Fontaine FR |
| Schoten BE | Munich DE |
| Zaragoza ES | Arnhem NL |
| Aarhus DK | Basque Country ES |
4. Help the organisation change
5. Engage the communities
| Examples | |
| 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 |
Key policies
Expected benefits
What's missing?
Summary
- CIO task
- Open standards
- Use HTML5
- Manage change
- Communities
Credits
- 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
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