Driving economic prosperity through innovation

Driving
economic prosperity
through
innovation and sovereignty
Georg Greve < [email protected]>
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
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Increase competency
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Reduce start up cost
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Liberate innovation
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Leverage across society
Principles
Control and participate.
Do not replace.
Principles
Encourage and enable.
Do not artificially support.
Dutch Best Practice
100.000+ users
Open Source
Social Intra / Extranet
Community driven
Dutch Best Practice
Resolution
German Ministry of Economy, 1999
Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)
German Federal Office for Information Security, 2002
Kolab 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
[email protected]