T4 - A brief history of open source in public sector

A brief history of #opensource in the public sector

Health Insights Birmingham 18/06/14

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Free != Open != Free

● Free Software Foundation● Freedoms as in speech● GNU Generation of '85

● Open Source Foundation● Freedoms as in beer● Netizens of '98

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana




Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.




Global view

● Brazil, 2001: Open Source Mandate adopted by Municipal Govts

● Germany, 2002: Bundestag adopts Linux for all back-end infrastructure

● Germany, 2003: Munich open desktop● EU, 2004: European eGovernment Services

Programme● France, 2007: MoD preference to open source● Austria, 2009: Vienna open ... everything!




UK Gov

Policy on the use of open source:

● First statement in 2004 was a PPN● Restated in both 2009 and 2010 as Strategy

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement-toolkit


http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement-toolkit



Never kissed a Tory.....

Francis Maude and chancellor George Osborne present open source as the antidote to the Labour government's "catastrophic" NpfIT (2009)

Reconfirm £2bn to CSC originally signed under Labour and dropped that bit of it that would have given them the means to open source the goods....

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/10/mps-get-in-a-funk-over-open-so.html

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/09/nhs-gives-up-rights-over-patie.html


http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/10/mps-get-in-a-funk-over-open-so.html

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/09/nhs-gives-up-rights-over-patie.html



NHS IA CfH NHS-E→ →

● Open Source Software and the NHS: White Paper; NHS IA 2002 (removed 2004...)

● eHealthopensource programme● Facilitating the Adoption of Open Source Technologies for UK

Health Care: An Ecosystem Framework – 2011

● NHS England Tech Fund(s) and Open Source Programme 2013 →




Net(work) Effect

● Fixing NHS IT: A plan of action for a new government, John Cruickshank, March 2010

● Open Health Informatics – A Fresh Approach for NHS IT, Professor John Chelsom, Centre for Health Informatics, City University London, January 2011

● System Error: Fixing the flaws in government IT, Institute for Government, March 2011




Message from the Cabinet Office

● For common problems use Opensource.

● For rare problems use Buy.

● For unique problems use Build.http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/12/coding-in-the-open/




Rare?




Health and Wealth for UK Plc

HP CIS : Free license for NHS?

IMSMaxims: OpenMaxims release June 2014

www.imsmaxims.com/opensource

Tactix4: open-eObs release June 2014

www.openeobs.com


http://www.imsmaxims.com/opensource

http://www.openeobs.com/



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