Driving economic prosperity through innovation and sovereignty

Driving economic prosperity

through innovation and sovereignty

Georg Greve < greve@kolabsys.com>

Quiz

Can you name the first EU Public Sector Open Source/Free Software Projects

?

Sovereignty

“Sovereignty, in layman's terms, means a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any

interference from outside sources or bodies. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme authority over some policy. It is a basic principle underlying the dominant

Westphalian model of state foundation.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty

Control

Innovation

● Increase competency● Reduce start up cost● Liberate innovation● Leverage across society

Principles

Control and participate.

Do not replace.

Principles

Encourage and enable.

Do not artificially support.

Dutch Best Practice

100.000+ users

Social Intra / Extranet

Open Source

Community driven

Dutch Best Practice

Resolution

German Ministry of Economy, 1999Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)

German Federal Office for Information Security, 2002Kolab Groupware Solution

...both driven by economic interest and sovereignty.

Lessons Learned

Software is policy

Government is a market actor

Barriers to adoption are not technical

Public funds can maximise public benefit

Contact

greve@kolabsys.com