iShareGIS

Open Source and Open Data

How to make UK PLC more effective

Jo Cook: Astun Technology isharemaps.com

I'm not going to talk about risk, or TCO

Training

Hardware

Maintenance

Support

Entry Costs

Exit Costs

Volume
Licensing

Training

Hardware

Maintenance

Support

Biggest barriers to adoption of open source in local governmentPublic Sector Forums: Open or Closed? A survey of Open Source Software in Local Government, August 2009

Or how open source is not communism

I'm going to talk about something bigger and fuzzier

Channel Shift

Integration

Innovation

Channel Shift?

Reduce Avoidable Contact

Innovation?

Open Source enables innovation without lawyers or fees

Roger Burkhardt: CEO of Ingres

...direct financial benefits from the agreement for society in the period 2005-2009 amount to around EUR 62 million

Number of datasets downloaded and used in commercial applications went up by 7,000%.

http://wiki.linkedgov.org/index.php/The_economic_impact_of_open_data

Making Dutch Address dataset free of charge

Making Austrian Public Sector Data available for marginal cost

Integration?

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential

Barack Obama

www.astuntechnology.com

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Typical Transaction Costs for Local AuthoritiesSource North-West e-Government GroupColumn B

Web0.17

Phone4

Face to Face7.81

Number of Votes

Considered too risky65

Lack of awareness65

Organisational culture56

Availability of skills49

Vendor lock-in48

Senior management buy-in48

Security concerns45

Few proven examples in local government42

Lack of 24/7 support33

Lack of prominence in central government strategy29