Reciprocal Open Source Environment Government

1. roseGOV:
Reciprocal Open Source Environment Government
(ROSE GOV for responses to ‘wicked problems’?)

2. Tim O-Reilly’s 2010“Government as a
Platform” presentation
• A key development in 2010 were a number of presentations given by
the CEO of O’Reilly Press-Tim O’Reilly on the topic of Government as
Platform”

3. May 26, 2010 “Govt as a Platform for Greatness” by Tim O’Reilly

4. Roots in “Better for Less”
• The origins of this concept can be found in a Sept. 7, 2010 document
written by Liam Maxwell, with contributions from Jerry Fishenden,
William Heath, Jonathon Sowler, Peter Rowlins, Mark Thompson and
Simon Wardley entitled:
• “Better for Less-How to make government IT deliver savings”
• https://ntouk.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/better-for-less-1.pdf

5. The Leap to Open Source Sharing
• The leap to the idea of sharing of both data and open source
programming has its origins in the UK government and a number of
key individuals originally involved in writing the “Better for Less” UK
government document.
• One of those writers, Liam Maxwell took the above concepts and
delivered a number of key “Open Source as Disruptor of
Government” presentations shared via Youtube.

6. Liam Maxwell’s Google Talk
“Open As Disruptor for Government”

7. Govt Monopolies & Open Source Exchanges?
• In that presentation a ‘what if’ question was posed about
government monopolies related to the issuing of driver’s licenses by
the UK & Norway.
• The what if question was what would happen if both countries
exchanged open source approaches, using the example of the issuing
of motor vehicle licenses
• What if Norway gave the UK their open source approach to the
issuing of vehicle licenses in exchange for future reciprocal exchanges
of open source approaches to public service provision
• What would the downside be, for either country?

8. roseGOV for public services globally?
• Public services that many countries provide as a monopoly service for
their public services like:
• Justice-rule of law
• Health
• Education
• Could these and other public services benefit from roseGOV
approaches globally?

9. Digital Nations-D9
• The original members of the network are Estonia, Israel, New
Zealand, South Korea and the United Kingdom.
• Canada and Uruguay joined the group in February 2018,
• and Mexico and Portugal joined in November 2018.

10. D9 Nations Sharing Digital Best Practices
• The idea of sharing digital best practices between nations evolved
from the D7 nations to the D9 nations
• https://www.digital.govt.nz/digital-government/international-
partnerships/the-digital-9/
“As a group, the D9:
• shares world-class digital practices
• identifies improvements to digital services
• collaborates to solve common problems
• supports and champions the group's growing digital economies.”

11. D9 Principles of Digital Development:
“They are committed to working towards the following principles of digital
development:
• user needs (designing public services that work for citizens)
• open standards
• open source
• open markets
• open government
• connectivity
• teaching children to code
• assisted digital (committing to support all citizens to access digital services)
• sharing and learning from each other”

12. Reciprocal Open Source Government-roseGOV
• That is the simple essence of ‘Reciprocal Open Source Environment-
Government-roseGOV:
• The use of open source approaches that are shared between
governments for things that government provides using a monopoly
approach, that the private sector is not allowed to provide services in

13. Digital Government Atlas from Apolitical
• Recently Apolitical published a digital government atlas that lists
some of the best approaches used by governments globally:
• https://apolitical.co/solution_article/the-digital-government-atlas-
the-worlds-best-tools-and-resources/
• A number of the nations listed by Apolitical have led the world in the
use of open source approaches like those used by Netflix for example,
where thereis a combination of proprietary and open source
approaches.

14. Global Sharing for Responses to Wicked Problems?
• It is proposed that this idea of the sharing of both data and open
source approaches between governments will continue to spread
• It will spread because the world cannot afford to do otherwise in
response to the ‘wicked problems’ of the world like climate change
and poverty for example.
• All sectors of society, whether public, private, not-for-profit or
education sectors have key roles to play in responding to the ‘wicked
problems’ of the world!