Osepa project: creating sinergies in Europe

2. FUNDECYT, the foundation for the Development of Science and Technology in Extremadura.

The Strategy of the Society of the Informationin the region, works in several initiatives related on the promotion of FOSS, from different perspectives: social inclusion, interregional cooperation, international cooperation...

Some Examples: Osepa Project, FLOSS Include, CYDETYS

Extremadura and the Open

Source Software

1. Junta de Extremadura has signed on 2010 the Socio- Politic Agreement for Employment and Social Development where FLOSS was recongnized as one of the pillars of the Knowledge Economy. Knowledge Society was stated as an economic sector itself, and FLOSS solutions, GRID and Cloud Computing as important techological basis to strength it.

Instruments: CENATIC, CESJE,Supercomputering centre…

ARGUMENTS

- Barriers: Important technical, managerial and psychological/perceptional.

- Overall penetration of FOSS remains low. Only local or regional level attempts.

- Need to inform, share and cross-border collaboration.

- Need for infrastructures at European level, supporting networking and exchange of experiences and good practices.

- Need to facilitate discussions between the staff and

the policy makers in PAs.

Why a debate on

FOSS for Public

Administrations?

osepa project´spurposes

- Examine how / whether public policies

can alleviate barriers rendering the potential benefits of FOSS

- Discuss on issues and priorities regarding

the use of FOSS by a significant number of European public administrations.

- Contribute to a European strategy

towards open source.

-Influence regional cohesion and

development policies at regional, national, European level.

In response to the needs mentioned above needs,

Osepa decided to work on:

osepa partnership

Coverage: East / West / North / South.

Size: Big / small.

Experience: Experienced, less experienced, inexperienced.

Motives: Driven by curiosity, interest, commitment, knowledge built up, strategy, money and travel.

Involvement: Includes end-users.

Strengths of the consortium: Heterogeneity,

RepresentativenessBalanced

The consortium includes:

- 4 national associations of municipalities and communities.

- Regions.

- Municipalities.

- Knowledge organisations.

The consortium can reach internally alone 1.302 European local and regional Public Administrations.

Osepa:an opportunity for

sharing perspectives

Politicians and experts from the FOSS Community signed a common Manifestoduring the last Osepa Conference in Extremadura:

1. New technologies, a resource that will allow public administrations to reach in a better way citizens needs.

2. A commitment to create awareness in our own territories about the benefits of Open Software for the territories' development.

3. To establish the measures necessaries to implement Free Software in their own organizations.4. To make the citizenship aware of our commitment of using Open Source, informing about the possibilities it can bring to enhance the public services.5. To democratize the use of new technologies by all citizens since they allow the government to exercise its functions in a more universal and more efficient way. Free software is an important part of this process of democratization.

mainexpected

results- A Survey of current FOSS usage in at least 20 EU countries.

- A requirements analysis and guidelines on software procurement policies of European Public Administrations.

- Two European conferences to explore the strategic impact of FOSS adoption and relate it to the existing European Public Administrations’ technology and service environments.

- Interregional events (9 Workshops, 6 Study Visits & 6 Site Visits) aiming to facilitate exchange of

experiences.

- Good Practice Guide on FOSS use among European Public Administrations.

- Analysis and recommendations on European and National Policies and practices on FOSS.

development strategy:

the osepa

partnership

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Teresa Muñoz Durán

teresa@fundecyt.es

Knowledge Society Area Director

EXTREMADURA/ FUNDECYT

www.juntaex.es/ www.fundecyt.es

Strengths of the consortium: