EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Latvia: Workshop 1 The current situation regarding Open Source in PAs in the UK Andrea Corbett Research Assistant Department of Computer Science OSEPA PROJECT PARTNER University of Sheffield (USFD)

2 Latvia: Workshop  Open Source successes  Open Source failures  The new Government’s IT strategy  The way forward Overview

3 Latvia: Workshop Successes  Parliament  Government Communications HQ  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence  Health Protection Agency  Legal Services Commission  Wales Cooperative Centre  NHS connecting for Health  Warwickshire Police  Schools  The Drinkaware trust  The Electoral Commission  Digital UK  Scottish Care Commission  Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman  Voluntary Service overseas  Royal College of Paediatrics  Directgov  Camden Council  Carmarthenshire CC

4 Latvia: Workshop Some FOSS solutions  Search solutions  Content management  Document management  Databases  CRM systems  Servers  Web services

5 Latvia: Workshop 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

6 Latvia: Workshop 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

7 Latvia: Workshop 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

8 Latvia: Workshop Some statistics  Population of UK 62million approximately  433 Local Authorities + Central Government  130+ data centres in Central Government  90,000 servers within Central Government running at <10% utilization  Thousands of data centres and comms rooms across public sector  200K+ servers across public sector  10,000+ distinct applications  600 desktop licences in Central Government  4 to 5 million desktop licences in wider public sector  No aggregation of application demand  No data mobility between departments  Under or over software licensing at a departmental level

9 Latvia: Workshop UK Government spending

10 Latvia: Workshop 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.

11 Latvia: Workshop "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

12 Latvia: Workshop 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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14 Latvia: Workshop 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

15 Latvia: Workshop 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”

16 Latvia: Workshop Consolidation of data centres Today Goal End point Significant Central Government data centre reduction by 2020, and a reduction of 80% across the wider Public Sector Reduce to an optimum number of modern, resilient, efficient and secure data centres that may also act as infrastructure for the G-Cloud Hundreds of public sector data centres running to different standards, some at capacity limits, others with unused space

17 Latvia: Workshop 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

18 Latvia: Workshop 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