Transcript PowerPoint Presentation INTERREG IVC

OSEPA PROJECT
PARTNER University of Sheffield (USFD)
EUROPEAN
REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
FUND
The current situation
regarding Open Source in PAs
in the UK
Andrea Corbett
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
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Overview
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Open Source successes
Open Source failures
The new Government’s IT strategy
The way forward
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Successes
 Parliament
 The Drinkaware trust
 Government Communications
HQ
 The Electoral Commission
 National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence
 Scottish Care Commission
 Digital UK
 Health Protection Agency
 Parliamentary and Health
Service Ombudsman
 Legal Services Commission
 Voluntary Service overseas
 Wales Cooperative Centre
 Royal College of Paediatrics
 NHS connecting for Health
 Directgov
 Warwickshire Police
 Camden Council
 Schools
 Carmarthenshire CC
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Some FOSS solutions
 Search solutions
 Content management
 Document management
 Databases
 CRM systems
 Servers
 Web services
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Bristol City Council
 One of the most pro-Open Source authorities in the public sector
 Open Source strategy
 Forced to scale back plans as suppliers failed to adopt Open
Standards
 Forced to abandon StarOffice and go back to MS Office
 Still committed to use as much Open Source as possible
Clifton suspension bridge, Bristol
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Birmingham City Council
 Largest local authority in UK
 2005 planned 1500 OpenOffice PCs in Libraries across the authority
 200 implemented
 Many failed and reverted to MS Office
 Costs higher with OpenOffice than MS Office
 Project abandoned
 Now reassessing Open Source in view of budget cuts
Selfridges building, Birmingham
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Why did they fail?
 Shortage of skills in Open Source
 Changes to IT processes
 Problems with desktop interfaces
 Lack of support for removable drives
 Incompatibility with key applications
 High costs for development and project management
 End user resistance
 Problems with file formats
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Some statistics
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Population of UK 62million approximately
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433 Local Authorities + Central Government
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130+ data centres in Central Government
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90,000 servers within Central Government running at <10% utilization
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Thousands of data centres and comms rooms across public sector
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200K+ servers across public sector
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10,000+ distinct applications
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600 desktop licences in Central Government
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4 to 5 million desktop licences in wider public sector
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No aggregation of application demand
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No data mobility between departments
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Under or over software licensing at a departmental
level
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UK Government spending
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Core principles
 Open Data – government data must be
transparent
 Open Source works – its concepts should
be applied to processes as much as to IT
 Open Standards will drive interoperability,
save money and prevent vendor lock-in
 Open Markets – competition creates
efficient market-based solutions.
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"Legally we're not allowed to specify a product, but
we can push open standards and government
departments to consider open source"
Bill McLuggage
Government Deputy CIO
Public Sector Enterprise ICT Conference 2010
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So what is the plan?
 Government G-cloud
 App store for government (ASG)
 Consolidated data centres
 Community Source/Open Source
 Government assistance to collaborate with other public
authorities
 25% IT contracts to SMEs
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What is the ASG?
 The ASG will be the online ICT Marketplace for the
Public Sector
 “Find IT, build IT, run IT, share IT”
 Services in the Store will include:
 G-Cloud Certified ICT Applications and solutions
 Other ICT Services; PSN, Hardware, Common Desktop, Service
Management etc
 Access to a development toolkit
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How will the ASG work?
 There will be a Certified Zone and an Open Zone
 Services in the Certified Zone will have been "pre-procured”
 Innovation encouraged in the Open Zone
 Products available in a standardized, simple and low cost way whilst
maintaining legal compliance
 Price and Performance Rating will be visible for comparison,
promoting competition and service excellence.
 You can search or advertise for new applications and services.
 Services at “Latest Best Price”
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Consolidation of data centres
End point
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Significant Central Government
data centre reduction by 2020,
and a reduction of 80% across
the wider Public Sector
Goal
Reduce to an optimum number
of modern, resilient, efficient and
secure data centres that may
also act as infrastructure for the
G-Cloud
Today
Hundreds of public sector data
centres running to different
standards, some at capacity
limits, others with unused space
Goals for the programme
 Reduce ICT costs, supplier lock-in, time from idea to
service and carbon footprint
 Create open, vibrant competitive marketplace
 These will be achieved through:
 Deployment across the whole of Public Sector
 Sharing and re-use of all relevant Public Sector ICT services
across organizational boundaries
 Driving standardization and simplification
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So what now?
 It won’t happen overnight – long term view
 Data centre consolidation is already starting
 Can start to use more Open Source
 Can open up market place to SMEs
 Central Government to lead the way
 They can’t compel wider public sector to follow
 They have to make it attractive
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