Enabling Government through Open Source

Enabling Government through Open Source

NEXTGEN GOVERNMENT

DAVID PETERSON

Solutions Architect, Team Lead - Acquia Asia Pacific & Japan@davidseth

THINKING

REMOVES BLOCKERS

ENABLES

OPEN SOURCE THINKING

OPEN SOURCE > THINKING

THINKING IN AN OPEN WAY

▸ Open Source is technology?

▸ Open thinking

▸ Adapting to change

▸ Freedom

OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT “JUST” = CODE

SCIENCELEGO

OPEN SOURCE IDEAS

3D PRINTERS

BE A CONDUCTOR

▸ Not invented here

▸ Build with reusable components



ROADMAP

▸ *You* define the roadmap

▸ Collaboration

▸ No Lock-in

OPEN SOURCE REMOVES BLOCKERS

FEATURE FIGHT

FEATURE FIGHT

▸ Can it do this?

▸ Does it have spell check?

▸ Does it produce 3 and only 3 types of charts?

OPEN SOURCE > REMOVING BLOCKERS


WHAT ARE YOUR AIMS?

▸ Forget the epic feature list

▸ Open Source can do what you want

▸ Use time to create *new* things


ACHIEVE BUY IN

▸ Agile process

▸ Real accountability

▸ Dashboards

“Failure isn’t what prevents us from success… It’s what leads us there.”

The Art of Work


FEAR OF FAILURE

▸ Prototype > Measure > Pass/Fail > Iterate

OPEN SOURCE ENABLES

APITRULY CONNECTED SYSTEMS

IT DOESN'T EXISTIf your data isn't openly available

CONTENT AS AN API

CONTENT AS AN API

▸ Unstructured data in

▸ Structured data out

OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES > API

DATA AS AN API

DATA AS AN API

▸ Clean data

▸ data.gov.au


http://data.gov.au

CLEAN DATA

▸ OpenRefine


PRINTINFORMATION BY

OBFUSCATIONINFORMATION BY

…TO STRUCTURED DATA

DATA.GOV(S) AROUND THE WORLD

▸ Canada - 244,953

▸ USA - 194,824

▸ UK - 27,544

▸ Australia - 7,100

▸ NZ - 3,826


GOVERNMENT AS AN API

COPECREATE ONCE PUBLISH EVERYWHERE

OMNICHANNEL

▸ Mobile

▸ Call Centre

▸ Digital Signage

OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES

SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH

SHARED UNDERSTANDING

▸ Reusable vocabularies

▸ schema.org

OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES

OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES > FUTURE

AUGMENTED REALITY

BLOCKERS ENABLE IDEAS

THANK YOUDAVID PETERSON @davidseth

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