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 government Public 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

Open Source and Open Data