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European Commission Open Source Observatory (OSOR)
8 April 2020
Open Source Software PoliciesCountry Intelligence Reports
Objectives
Receive your
feedback on how to
make the information
in the country reports
more useful for your
needs and what to
envisage for the next
reports
Present our
preliminary findings
on the current status
of source software
policies in 23 EU
countries and
showcase the impact
of formalised OSS
policies in France and
Italy
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2
Agenda
Lightning Talks
Context and Background 01
02Current status of
open source policies
in 23 EU countries
03
Your opinion
Conclusions
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Context and Background
OSORINFORMATION OBSERVATORY
Publishes information, experiences and best practices around the use of open source
software in public administrations. Additionally, the Knowledge Centre gives access to key
resources such as studies and guidelines.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Promotes open source software through community engagement activities such as
participation in events, social media, and production and publication of content.
ASSISTANCE & SUPPORT
Provides information and offers ad-hoc legal support services on the licensing of open
source software solutions in cooperation with the EUPL collection.
“OSOR aims to become a trustworthy observatory that provides FOSS expertise and information as well as
serves as middle ground to connect European Public Administrations with other relevant stakeholders. To
reach this objective, OSOR will support a dynamic community and further promote the use of Free and Open
Source Software.”5
Introduction
Research on the state of play
of OSS policies in EU
Member States focussing on:
• governance,
• political and legal
frameworks, and
• major ongoing OSS
initiatives
• Carrying out desk
research
• Feedback by national
contact points
• Compilation of final
country reports
• Ten country reports
published on OSOR
• Six country reports
coming soon
• This presentation covers
23 countries including 6
draft reports (excl. AT,
BG, CY, EE, HU)
SCOPE METHODOLOGY STATUS
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Current status of open source software policies in EU Member StatesAnalysis of the 23 country intelligence reports that have been so far
drafted
While 9 Member States have public sector bodies that address OSS, still 14 have no formalised governance to address the subject.
Legend
3 public sector bodies
2 public sector bodies
1 public sector body
Do not have public sector
body addressing OSS
Not analysed
Out of scope
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There are three main types of public sector bodies that deal with OSS
Agency ServiceEntity within
Ministry
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• Digital Agency (Belgium)
• Flanders Information Agency (Belgium)
• Danish Agency for Digitisation (Denmark)
• Agency for Digital Italy (Italy)
• Malta Information Technology Agency
(Malta)
• Agency for Digital Government (Sweden)
• Belgian Federal Public Service Policy
and Support, the Directorate-General
Digital Transformation (Belgium)
• Technology Transfer Centre (Spain)
• Swedish National Procurement Services
(Sweden)
• Government Digital Service (United
Kingdom)
• Interministerial Directorate for Digital
Services (France)
• Digital Transformation Department (Italy)
• Information Society Office (Slovenia)
• Directorate for Information Society and
Informatics (Slovenia)
• General Secretariat of Digital
Administration (Spain)
• Malta Open Source End User Group
(Malta)9
21 Member States of the 23 analysed have both political and legal initiatives addressing OSS. Of the 11 Member States with legal initiatives, three countries have more than one initiative.
Legend
Political and legal initiatives
Political initiative only
No political nor legal initiative
Not analysed
Out of scope
The political and legal initiatives were found to focus on the four recurrent issues and domains below
Legend
79
36
29
10
9
19
0
Development
and use of
OSS solutions
Promotion of
OSS in public
administration
Adoption of
OSS in public
administration
OSS in procurement
36
12
6
Legal Initiative
Political Initiative
11
The legal initiatives were found to focus on the three recurrent issues and domains below
• Italy (Bill)
• Malta (Directive)
• Portugal (Law)
• France (Decree, Bill, Law,
Circular)
• Greece (Law)
• Portugal (Decree-law)
• Slovakia (Decree)
• Spain (Laws)
• Denmark (Parliamentary
resolution)
• Germany (Parliamentary
resolution)
• Lithuania (Parliamentary
resolution)
• Netherlands (Act)
• Portugal (Ministry resolution)
• Spain (Ministry resolution)
Adoption of OSS in
public
administrations
3
Development of OSS
in public
administrations
9
Promotion of OSS in
public
administrations
7
The political initiatives were found to focus on the four recurrent issues and domains below
• Czechia (Policy)
• Denmark (Action)
• France (Action)
• Lithuania (Government
programme)
• Malta (Strategy)
• Portugal (Strategy)
• Romania (Digital
Agenda
• Slovakia (Action plan)
• Slovenia (policy)
• France (Policy)
• Germany
(Guidelines)
• Italy (Guidelines)
• Malta (Strategy,
Consultation)
• Poland (Programme)
• Slovenia (Guidelines,
Strategy)
• Spain (Guidelines)
• Sweden (Policy)
• Strategy (Croatia,
Denmark, Lithuania,
Portugal, Slovakia,
United Kingdom)
• Programme (Belgium,
Finland, Luxembourg)
• Policy (Belgium, Malta)
• Action Plan (Denmark,
Slovenia)
• Papers (Finland,
Poland, Sweden)
• Etc.
Promotion of OSS
in public
administrations
Development of
OSS in public
administrations
10
Adoption of OSS in
public
administrations
9
OSS in
procurement
6
• Finland (Guidelines)
• Germany (Agenda)
• Malta (Governmental
White Paper)
• Netherlands
(Programme)
• Slovenia (Guidelines)
• Sweden (Framework
agreement)
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In the course of the collection of our data in 23 countries, a total of 200 OSS initiatives were described. The most common types of initiatives are the following
Migration to OSS in
governmental bodies
Use of various OSS in public
sector bodies
Adopting OSS from other
public administrations
Collaboration with strategic
players
Creation of an OS cloud in
governmental bodies
Online platform
Event/Training
Repositories
Citizen participation
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Lightning TalksBastien Guerry from DINUM, France
Leonardo Favario from Team Digitale, Italy
Lightning Talks
Free Software
Officer for the
French Public
Sector in Etalab
(DINUM)
Bastien
GUERRYOpen Source Project
Leader @ Department
for the Digital
Transformation in the
Italian Government
Leonardo
FAVARIO
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The French public sector context regarding FLOSS
• The 2016 Law for a Digital Republic "encourages" the administration.
• This not a formal priority like in Italy.
• The current doctrine is to use opensource when it suits best (aka a pragmatical approach, as expressed by the head of DINUM.)
Good news
• We are in the process of adding the EUPL on the list of allowed licenses for the public sector.
What we currently have and do
• We have catalogue of recommended free software: sill.etalab.gouv.fr
• We have a list of 3477 repositories: code.etalab.gouv.fr
• We have a newsletter on open source (#BlueHats gazette)
• We started a movement: BlueHats
• We set up a partnership with Adullact in January, Adullact's mission is to help cities and small public agencies to adopt open source solutions - they will also promote the open source tools that are developed by the whole public sector.
• We do have an open source maintenance market that is in the process of being launched again (we learned from our mistakes)
• We are rewriting the procurement template for buying open source in the public sector (here again, trying to learn from our mistakes).
Open source during the crisis: resilience, agility, infrastructure
• Not innovation first, but community first.
• We have a large community of developers in DINUM, now very engaged into proposing various open source solutions spontaneously.
• As an example: higher education and research → there is a new mailing list to gather volunteers who want to help deploy servers for Jitsi, etc.
• Another example: Tchap has doubled its number of users and the crisis helped accelerating the generalisation of the access (e.g. now firemen can use it.)
• Another example: civil society mobilised to help teachers accomplish their mission distantly: www.continuitepedagogique.org
• In general: the current situation blurs the boundaries between the administration and the civil efforts, and open source helps as a common "cultural" background and as a common way of doing things.
• All of this if very much in line with the idea behind the #bluehats movement, identifying "hackers of public interest".
A story: Framasoft and the ministry of education / higher education
• Framasoft is an association promoting the use of free software in every sector and providing online services to avoid GAFAM services.
• 5 years ago, they had discussions with the Ministry of Education but this led nowhere (Framasoftwas quite upset that their volunteers lost time discussing non-conclusive collaboration opportunities).
• At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, the Ministry of Higher Education asked teachers to use Framasoft services! Forgetting that Framasoft, while doing an amazing job, is only a 9-employees NGO with limited resources.
• Framasoft replied with "teachers, please don't use our tools, ask your administration to deploy their own tools instead."
• This raised awareness about the fact that services, even free services, always come with a cost and that open source is a mean to decentralise services and/or should be perceived as such.
SHARING & REUSECONFERENCE
OPEN.SHARE.LINK.
Developers Italia
we develop public services, together
Leonardo Favario [email protected]
The Italian Ministry of Innovation Technology and Digitalization
Tackles different aspects of Innovation and Digitalization of the Country.
The Department for the Digital Transformation aims at offering simple, efficient and resilient digital services to citizens, Public Administrations and enterprises.
Projects like Developers Italia and Designers Italia are currently curated by the Department.
Developers Italia
Our strategy
Regulation + Tools + Community
developers.italia.it
➔ Guidelines➔ Court of Auditors
➔ Technical guides➔ Templates for contracts➔ Software catalog➔ publiccode.yml➔ docs.italia.it
➔ forum.italia.it➔ slack.developers.italia.it➔ Hackathons➔ Google Summer of Code
Software reuse: The Italian Law
Since 2005, Public Administrations are required to share their software with other administrations upon request (direct reuse).
Since 2012, Public Administrations are required to adopt open source over proprietary software.
Since 2016, Public Administrations are required to release their own software as open source (reuse through open source).
Since 2019, new guidelines on software acquisition and reuse. A practical tool for administrations to comply with the law. Simple decision-making workflow for defining requirements and lookingfor available solutions by prioritizing OSS.
Developers Italia
The software catalogTOOLS
➔ https://developers.italia.it
Generated automatically by a crawler that
finds public software.
For each software:➔ features & roadmap➔ screenshots➔ forks➔ maintainers➔ development activity
developers.italia.it
publiccode.yml
Developers Italia
TOOLS
➔ https://github.com/italia/publiccode.yml
A metadata description standard for public software repositories that is easy to use both for developers and people with less technical background, to make the software developed by Public Administrations easily discoverable.
Join us! Adopt publiccode.yml in your country and join our working group for developing the standard.
The software catalogTOOLS
➔ 93 software in the catalog
➔ 544 reuses
developers.italia.it
Open Challenges
➔ Keep on populating the catalog
➔ Promote community engagement
➔ Go open by default!
Developers Italia
Leonardo Favario• Email: [email protected]• GitHub: libremente
https://innovazione.governo.ithttps://developers.italia.it/en
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Contacts
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Share your thoughts!
What are you looking for in the OSS country reports?
Which missing
aspect would you
like to learn more
about in the country
reports?
Based on the
findings of all the
country reports, we
will be publishing a
comprehensive
study of the reports.
How could you use
this information
within your
organisations?
We have talked
about governmental
actors, strategic
players, policies and
legislation. What
else do you think
can contribute to the
adoption of OSS in
the public sector?
In your community,
who do you think
could further
contribute to the
country reports?
Q&A with Bastien
and Leonardo
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Next steps
Next steps
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, United Kingdom
Comprehensive
study and
publication of the
analytical study,
taking your
feedback into
account
JuneMayApril
Czechia, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Romania
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