The goal of the IBSA Summit is to exchange successful experiences in the three countries regarding open source initiatives. We will deliberate and propose an agenda for IBSA to implement open source initiatives cross-countries. The idea is to share open source experiences and to plan the dissemination of best practices among Brazil, South Africa and India.
During the day we will have discussions regarding the initiatives and experiences from IBSA. Each attendee will make a brief presentation (of approximately 20 minutes) of his/her activities/policies experiences with open source initiatives in his/her country. Leader: Christiana Freitas
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1.
2. The IBSA Summit Christiana Soares de Freitas, Jarbas
Cardoso, Fernando Canto, Jose Luis Machado, Thuli Radebe, Pierre
Schoonraad, Gurumurthy
3. Suggestions of Themes for Discussion
Whats IBSA common vision of the future?
How can we use FLOSS for our countriesdevelopment?
What can we do to intensify efforts in internationalizing the
best practices and initiatives from India, Brazil and South
Africa?
Which paths and agenda shall we choose to follow?
4. Overview
South Africa
In 2006:
Department of Public Service and Administration & GITOC
(Government CIO Council) developed first FOSS Policy, with some
main orientations, such as:
- The South African Government will implement FOSS unless
proprietary software is demonstrated to be significantly
superior
- The South African Government will migrate current proprietary
software to FOSS whenever comparable software exists
- All new software developed for or by the South African
Government using a FOSS license where possible
- The South African Government will encourage the use of Open
Content and Open Standards within South Africa
5. India
IT For Change
Working with the idea of public software
In India there is a legal rule to use open source in government
agencies
Only free and public software (freedom to share and modify) can
provide universal access
Only free and public software allows community participation,
essential to public services
6. India, Brazil & South Africa
Brazil presented the general ideas and concepts of public
software and some specific software in use, like the system of
electronic elections
Government seen as a supporting actor in FLOSS implementation
and its globalization
Promote public software as a
public good
7. India, Brazil & South Africa
Implementation of FLOSS policy has some barriers to
overcome:
Need to improve skills
Lack of integrated / collaborative effort (silo
initiatives)
Championing within departments not forthcoming / duplication of
efforts
Need to focus on citizens experiences and demands
8. Citizens should be the key
Citizens building their environment with open technologies
NOT top-down policies
9. Service Relations
An accountant, working on the Juramentos City Hall, decides to
learn and
install e-cidade , the public
software for managing
municipality issues;
On february, 2010
With the help of a program developer from the city, they solved
the bugs they found
10. e-cidade
A public software for municipality management
Before: Juramento used to pay a mensal license of
US$ 3,500.00
Now: Juramento pays, monthly, the equivalent of
US$ 120.00 (to where the software is hosted)
Other advantages: data in cloud computing
Next step of Luciano, the account: becoming e-cidade available
in smartphones
11. Sharing Knowledge among Small Cities in Brazil
Months later...
Juramento is visited by
an accountant of Iracema (Roraima)
His goal: learn how to install e-cidade, already functioning in
Juramento
12. A quick look in the numbers of service providers registered
in the Public Market Portal
Today, registered in the Public Market, there are:
249 business companies
&
275 individuals registered
13. The Public Software Concept
A business model with focus on content (technological
knowledge) produced by
the users
Today, the Brazilian Public Software Portal has
More then 100.000 users
And more than 50 public software
14. The Brazilian Public Software Paths to internationalization
Why?
15. Promotes economic development
Creates new job opportunities
Promotes income increase
Promotes social and digital inclusion of the ones originally
disconnected from networks of production
It also strengthens the State that adopts it
16.
What have we done so far in this process of
internationalization?
17. International opportunities (2008) The Ministry of Planning
were asked to create a Centre of Reference for Free Software
Brazil enters the Collaborative Network for Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
with the Federal University of Minas Gerais
18. Internationalizing the Public Software
The main goal:
Replicate in Latin America and the Caribbean the best practices
of the Brazilian Public Software
In 2009
A survey was developed to ask the public software community
which software would be the most important or interesting to
translate to spanish and english and become an International Public
Software (CACIC and i-educar were chosen)
19. In Latin America and the Caribbean
In 2010
Seven countries agreed to adequate their model to the Brazilian
one regarding the procedures for licensing the public software
solutions
In 2011
Argentina decided to institutionalize the experience of public
software publishing a legal resolution (n.754)
20. After Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil wants to expand its network: India and South Africa as
key partners for the development of the Public Software Portal
21. Some public software that interest IBSA
i-educar
For the educational sector
e-cidade
For the management of municipalities issues
GINGA
A middleware for Digital TV
22. Some public software that interest IBSA
Invesalius
An important tool for the health sector
SAELE
Open Electronic Elections System
23. SAELE History
Development started in 2004 in the Data Processing Center of
UFRGS;
Inspired by the Brazilian Electronic ballot, first used in
1996:
Aimed to attend the need for a fast, efficient, secure and
neutral process of election.
24. SAELE Statistics and facts
First elections ran in 2005;
Over 200 elections successfully completed so far, with over
500,000 individual voters and over 200,000 registered votes;
Packaging and conversion to Free Software started in 2009;
Intellectual property officially registered in 2011; Submitted
to the Public Software Portal of Brazil in 2011, to be released to
other Brazilian institutions.
25. How do we guarantee the sustainability of the initiative?
How to guarantee sufficient incentives to the production and
improvement of public software?
One of the answers can be rewarding creativity that is vital to
promote innovation;
In our contemporary economy, we need systems of intellectual
property that values innovation and stimulates openness ;
Project that began this year:
The Public Trade Mark License
26. How do we guarantee the sustainability of the initiative?
A high level of control over the quality of each public
software and its improvement;
The ones who offer the solutions must belong to the
Portal;
The more we know about the needs of those who want to use PS
the better ( who demands it);
The State is the intermediate actor between who offers and who
demands public software ;
27. Future Perspectives
Public Software is strategical to government and to
society;
This justifies cooperation initiatives in the sense of sharing
knowledge, technology and publicizing public software;
Future Perspectives: Becoming a State Public Policy, not only a
Government Initiative
Institutionalization and Dissemination
28. Open Source & Open Democracy
Thinking democracy today i s thinking social inclusion stronlgy
associated with digital inclusion & equal (or as equal as
possible) distribution of knowledge
Democratic countries need to stimulate projects that empowers
individuals with knowledge and open source technology
Knowledge fosters democracy and consolidates the power of a
nation especially open knowledge based on commons
29.
Christiana Soares de Freitas
Professor of the Federal University of Brasilia, Brazil
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The International Division of Power among nations is conditioned by
the International Division of Knowledge Celso Amorim Minister of
Deffense, Brazil