public funds in the uk - alfresco presentation
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Public Funds in the UK: Open Source for Document and Content Management?
Will Abson, Alfresco Software Ltd.
Five Years Ago... at Alfresco
Alfresco development begins on 4th January 2005
First Release Candidate on 12th July
First 1.x release on 31st October
Use of Open Source methodology was key
What is Alfresco?
The Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management
Provides Document Management, Records Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration and more
Community and Enterprise Editions
Active communities world-wide
Built on Open Source components Spring, Lucene, Hibernate, OpenOffice.org, etc.
Five Years Ago... in Government
UK Government publishes Transformational Government agendaMore on this later
UK Freedom of Information comes into effect on 1st January 2005Deals with access to official information
Gives individuals and organisations the right to access this information from any public authority
Similar legislation implemented in over 85 countries world-wide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2010/01/wills_defends_queen.html
FOI at Islington Borough Council
Approx 4000 staff, 50-100 core records systems
Difficult to process FOI requestsExample: 419 days to respond to a single request
Implemented Alfresco as EDRM solution across the organisationProject started 2006, Go-Live March 2007
Would not have been possible without OSSAllowed a solution tailored to the council's needs
Elimination of licensing and CALs
Barriers to OSS at Islington
Resistance to OSS in generalConcerns over maturity of solutions and supportability
Overcome through education of key stakeholders
Resistance to changed working practicesAlfresco's support for Microsoft networking protocols allowed users to continue using shared drive methodology
Overcome through open standards
More informationhttp://www.islington.gov.uk/Council/councilstructure/Access_to_Information/EdrmInThePublicSectorEvent/default.asp
UK market in 2010
A few early adopters dominate the UK landscape
Sadly, UK remains 2-3 years behind progress in other territoriesU.S. is strongest single market
Performance in other Western European counties
But, encouraging signs among public sector and system integrators
Reasons to be positive
Updated UK Government procurement policy on OSS, Feb 09Open source to be chosen in preference to proprietary solutions where solutions are equal
(Leaked) Government ICT Strategy, Dec 09And Conservative Make IT Better response...
Renewed focus on value for moneyIT will be the focus for efficiency savings in 2010
Government 2.0 and Open Data
Value for Money
UK has seen fastest increase in level of indebtedness of all G20 countries
Yet spends one of the highest amounts on public sector ITIT de-skilling within Central Government
Historical preference of proprietary solutions
Domination of market by a handful of suppliers 5 top integrators have 80% of market
More informationCPS Paper It's Ours by Liam Maxwell, RBWM
ICT Spend in the European Public Sector, 2005
Government 2.0
Defines methodologies for improving service deliveryc.f. Transformational Government agenda
Key themes: Transparency, Participation, Collaboration
Utilise Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs, social networks
OSS a common factore.g. http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/innovations
More informationhttp://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/what-does-government-20-mean-to-you.html
http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/gov2-senate
Open Data
Supports objectives of Gov 2.0Transparency, Accountability, Participation
Growing acceptance of openness as a defaultClimate data released by Met Office
MPs Expenses
data.gov, data.gov.uk, London Data Store
Ordnance Survey data sets consultation
Cross-party support in UK
Open Source and Open Standards as key enablers
Where are we now?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)http://www.axicom.com/blog/?p=616