Enabling Government through Open Source
NEXTGEN GOVERNMENT
DAVID PETERSON
Solutions Architect, Team Lead - Acquia Asia Pacific & Japan@davidseth
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
OPEN SOURCE IDEAS
BE A CONDUCTOR
▸ Not invented here
▸ Build with reusable components
OPEN SOURCE > THINKING
OPEN SOURCE > THINKING
ROADMAP
▸ *You* define the roadmap
▸ Collaboration
▸ No Lock-in
OPEN SOURCE REMOVES BLOCKERS
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
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
OPEN SOURCE > REMOVING BLOCKERS
ACHIEVE BUY IN
▸ Agile process
▸ Real accountability
▸ Dashboards
OPEN SOURCE > REMOVING BLOCKERS
ACHIEVE BUY IN
▸ Agile process
▸ Real accountability
▸ Dashboards
OPEN SOURCE > REMOVING BLOCKERS
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
OPEN SOURCE > REMOVING BLOCKERS
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
▸ Clean data
▸ data.gov.au
OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES > API
CLEAN DATA
▸ OpenRefine
OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES > API
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
OPEN SOURCE > ENABLES > API
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
BLOCKERS ENABLE IDEAS
THANK YOUDAVID PETERSON @davidseth