A quick romp through the history of open source policies in the public sector, with a nod to the global before focusing on the UK Gov and in particular NHS IT

1. A brief history of #opensource in the
public sector
First shared at Health Insights, Birmingham, 18 June 2014

2. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Free != Open != Free
●
Free Software Foundation
– Freedoms as in speech
– GNU Generation of '85
●
Open Source Foundation
– Freedoms as in beer
– Netizens of '98

3. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

4. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends
on retentiveness. When change is absolute there
remains no being to improve and no direction is
set for possible improvement: and when
experience is not retained, as among savages,
infancy is perpetual.

5. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Global view
●
Brazil, 2001: Open Source Mandate adopted by
Municipal Govts
●
Germany, 2002: Bundestag adopts Linux for all
back-end infrastructure
●
Germany, 2003: Munich open desktop
●
EU, 2004: European eGovernment Services
Programme
●
France, 2007: MoD preference to open source
●
Austria, 2009: Vienna open ... everything!

6. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
UK Gov
Policy on the use of open source:
●
First statement in 2004 was a PPN
●
Restated in both 2009 and 2010 as Strategy
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement-toolkit

7. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Never kissed a Tory.....
Francis Maude and chancellor George Osborne
present open source as the antidote to the Labour
government's "catastrophic" NpfIT (2009)
Reconfirm £2bn to CSC originally signed under
Labour and dropped that bit of it that would have
given them the means to open source the goods....
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/10/mps-get-in-a-funk-over-open-so.html
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/09/nhs-gives-up-rights-over-patie.html

8. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
NHS IA → CfH → NHS-E
●
Open Source Software and the NHS: White
Paper; NHS IA 2002 (removed 2004...)
●
eHealthopensource programme
– Facilitating the Adoption of Open Source Technologies for UK
Health Care: An Ecosystem Framework – 2011
●
NHS England Tech Fund(s) and Open Source
Programme 2013 →

9. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Net(work) Effect
●
Fixing NHS IT: A plan of action for a new
government, John Cruickshank, March 2010
●
Open Health Informatics – A Fresh Approach for
NHS IT, Professor John Chelsom, Centre for
Health Informatics, City University London,
January 2011
●
System Error: Fixing the flaws in government IT,
Institute for Government, March 2011

10. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Message from the Cabinet Office
●
For common problems use Opensource.
●
For rare problems use Buy.
●
For unique problems use Build.
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/12/coding-in-the-open/

11. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Rare?

12. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
Health and Wealth for UK Plc
HP CIS : Free license for NHS?
IMSMaxims: OpenMaxims release June 2014
www.imsmaxims.com/opensource
Tactix4: open-eObs release June 2014
www.openeobs.com

13. Rob Dyke, Senior Partner
@neovahealth
THE END