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Bill McCluggage, Director of ICT Strategy and Planning at the Cabinet Office, has overall responsibility for the formulation, development and communication of cross-Government ICT strategies and policies. He spoke about the Government's commitment to open standards, the challenges they are facing and their strategy to deliver real changes. Many of the issues Bill talked about are covered in the latest UK Government ICT Strategy, released just this week.
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110 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
Government's Drive For The Adoption of Open Standards and Open Source
Bill McCluggage, Director of ICT Strategy and Policy, Cabinet Office
Squiz Seminar, 31 March 2011
Government ICT Strategy – March 2011
210 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
• Oligopoly of suppliers
• Projects too big, unmanageable, slow to procure and implement
• Infrastructure is not interconnected and interoperable
• Solutions are duplicated and re-invented within organisations
Government’s Approach
310 Apr 2023
The Government ICT Strategy
Reducing Waste and Project Failure, and Stimulating
Economic Growth
Creating a Common ICT Infrastructure
Using ICT to Enable and Deliver Change
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Delivering Better Public Services for Less
Open standards – Our Definition
410 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
Government currently defines open standards for ICT as standards which:
• Result from and are maintained through an open, independent process;
• Are approved by a recognised specification or standardisation organisation, for example W3C or ISO or equivalent. (N.B. The specification/standardisation must be compliant with Regulation 9 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006. This regulation makes it clear that technical specifications/standards cannot simply be national standards but must also include/recognise European standards);
• Are thoroughly documented and publicly available at zero or low cost;
• Have intellectual property made irrevocably available on a royalty free basis;
• As a whole can be implemented and shared under different development approaches and on a number of platforms.
The definition is currently undergoing informal consultation as part of the UK Government Open Standards Survey and will be reviewed when this comes to an end on 20 May.
Open standards – The ICT Strategy View
510 Apr 2023
Mandation of specific open standards will make ICT solutions
fully interoperable to allow for reuse, sharing and scalability across organisational boundaries into local
delivery chains
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Open standards – Creating a fairer and competitive market
610 Apr 2023
Breaking down barriers to SME participation
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A standards based platform will enable SMEs to in vest in new Govt solutions and allow Govt to buy directly from them
A standards based approach will facilitate the move from large projects to smaller and more manageable projects
Open standards – our commitments
710 Apr 2023
To ensure that appropriate data is transparent and shared rather than duplicated, the Government will implement engagement processes for open data standards activity and crowd-source priority areas for data standards
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To enable delivery of interoperable and open ICT solutions so that they can be shared and reused, the Government will publish a reference architecture
To allow for greater interoperability, openness and reuse of ICT solutions, the Government will establish a suite of agreed and mandatory open technical standards
To recognise information as an organisational asset and to deliver improved access to clean and consistent information, the Government will develop an Information Strategy while maintaining necessary protection for sensitive information
Draft government open standards (including those relating to security) crowd-sourced for feedback
Strategy Commitments
Ongoing Work
Standards – Delivery Approach
810 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Delivery Group, defines technical specifications which must be used to design, build and operate Government ICTOpen standards must be considered and used unless there is a clear business reason against adoptionPreference for International and European standards adoptionA more open process is being defined to foster engagementConsidered as part of the assessment of ICT projects in new spend controls
Open Source – The ICT Strategy View
910 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
Where appropriate, government will procure Open Source solutions. When used in conjunction with
compulsory open standards, open source presents significant
opportunities for the design and delivery of interoperable solutions.
Open Source – our commitments
1010 Apr 2023
To create a level playing field for the use of innovative ICT solutions, the Government will publish a toolkit for procurers on best practice for evaluating the use of open source solutions
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To assist with the deployment of agile solutions using open source technology, the Government will establish:
• an Open Source Implementation Group; • a System Integrator Forum; and • an Open Source Advisory Panel.
These bodies will aim to educate, promote and facilitate the technical and cultural change needed to increase the use of open source across government
Strategy Commitments
Cloud Computing
1110 Apr 2023UNCLASSIFIED
‘The 3 Rules’ of cloud computing
1. No up front investment - PAYG
2. No term lock-in
3. No volume lock-in
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