- ."" To Select or Not? - Dealing with Competing Standards in Public IT Procurement Jan 06, 2012
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Following the successful OFA round Table discussion held in Brussels on 12th December the full research report had now been published by its author Tineke M. Egyedi of Delft University of Technology.
The study has been funded with research grants from the Dutch Standardisation Forum, a forum involved in drawing up lists of selected ICT-standards for government organisations, and OpenForum Academy. This report addresses the problem how governments should deal with competing standards, that is, two or more functionally equivalent standards, in the context of public IT-procurement. The focus is on (open) committee standards. The research questions were in the context of public IT procurement, should governments choose between standards that have the same functionality? If so, what factors should be taken into consideration?
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Draft guidelines have now been prepared and Europe Economics, on behalf
of the European Commission, is seeking views on how useful these
guidelines might be, as well as views on practical implementation
measures.
A short survey is available here Survey link. Your assistance in filling it in is greatly appreciated. Please see the attached letter of support from the Commission for more detail: Letter of support.
Please note that the survey will close on 14th February 2012. If you require any assistance in answering it please contact Deborah Kelly or Saattvic on +442078314717 or at ict@europe-economics.com. Your responses will remain completely confidential.
The Cabinet Office and London School of Economics (LSE) have published research into the Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software. The report has been jointly financed by the Cabinet Office and OpenForum Academy, together with some of its supporters, including Alfresco, Deloitte, IBM and Red Hat.
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Further
commentary:
We welcome four new OFA Fellows- Simon Phipps, Karsten Gerloff, Maha Shaikh, and Shane Coughlan. :
Simon Phipps is now CSO at ForgeRock, and is on the Board of the Open Source Initiative, previously he was Chief Open Source Officer at SUN Microsystems – he remains a highly visible commentator and contributor to the open source community.
Karsten Gerloff is President of FSFE, is a thought leader on Free Software and Open Standards, and previously was a senior researcher at MERIT.
Maha Sheikh has recently been appointed Assistant Professor at Warwick, prior to that was at LSE, where she was joint author of the research into the TCO of OSS.
Shane Coughlin, has worked with OFE and at FSFE was the driving influence behind the establishment of the European Legal Network (which has now gone global!), and is the author of a number of research studies.
Secondly I am delighted to announce that Shane Coughlin has now additionally agreed to work with us in developing the OFA Fellows network.
Forthcoming events:
On the 1st December we host a Round Table on Open Innovation, focussing in IPR in Research with The Right Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob as the lead speaker.
We are also finalising the date mid December for a Round Table on Competing Standards, building on the OFA research being finalised by Tineke Egyedi of Delft.
And finally, for the moment, another round table is under preparation in January on the next in the series on the Open Cloud, this time looking at Certification.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About FRAND (But didnt know who to ask)
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The Lafayette Deception - Intermission: The High Price of "Free"
Andrew Updegrove — Feb 21, 2012 06:45 AM
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Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chap. 11: How to Promote your Book (Part II)
Andrew Updegrove — Feb 18, 2012 06:47 AM
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Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chap. 10: How to Promote your Book (Part I)
Andrew Updegrove — Feb 11, 2012 06:43 AM
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Community, customer service and Free Software
Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards — Feb 10, 2012 06:29 AM
- OFE report shows 21% of public ICT tenders break EU Rules Nov 18, 2010
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OFE's annual public procurement monitoring of notices for computer software published on Tenders Electronic Daily results point that non-discrimination on public procurement processes has barely improved from 2008 exercise. 171 contact notices were scanned for trademarks in the period from February 1 to April 30, 2009. OFE's monitoring exercise shows that in 37 tender notices out of 171 (21.6 percent, against 25 percent on 2008 exercise), trademarks were mentioned in procurement documents. In 22 cases (12.8 percent), tender notices mentioned Microsoft or one of Microsoft’s products.
To Select or Not? - Dealing with Competing Standards in Public IT Procurement
Following the successful OFA round Table discussion held in Brussels on 12th December the full research report had now been published by its author Tineke M. Egyedi of Delft University of Technology.
The study has been funded with research grants from the Dutch
Standardisation Forum, a forum involved in drawing up lists of selected
ICT-standards for government organisations, and OpenForum Academy. This
report addresses the problem how governments should deal with competing
standards, that is, two or more functionally equivalent standards, in
the context of public IT-procurement. The focus is on (open) committee
standards. The research questions were in the context of public IT procurement, should governments choose
between standards that have the same functionality? If so, what factors
should be taken into consideration?
Read more:- PDF Format
Open Innovation Breakfast Debate - 1st December 2011
OpenForum Academy hosted a stimulating breakfast debate about open
innovation on December 1st, the day after the European Commission
unveiled its plans for the next round of EU-funded research, dubbed
Horizon 2020. Guest speakers Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob (inset above), Maria
da Graça Carvalho MEP and Dr John Temple Lang led the
discussion, which focused mainly on one contentious issue contained
in the Horizon 2020 proposal: forcing some patents generated from
EU-funded research to be exploited in Europe before anywhere else.
The general consensus from the three panelists as well as from many
of the 40 or so attendees who joined in the discussion was that
attaching strings to intellectual property in this way is a bad idea
because it will put off inventors from participating in EU-funded
research.
The full report prepared by Dr Roger
Burt .
A milestone in the development of public sector information in Europe
June 28th 2011 - OpenForum Europe (OFE) and its sister organization, the OFE Academy are delighted to have been involved in the organizing of the Open Data Challenge, a competition designed to inspire developers to come up with innovative and useful ways of re-using public data. ...More
BRUSSELS,
June 16th 2011 - Europe's biggest ever open data competition concluded today when European Commission vice President Neelie Kroes handed out prizes totaling 20,000 euros at the Commission's Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels. ...More
- Call for papers: Open Standards in government ICT procurement Nov 18, 2010
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The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to launch a first research stream which will focus on Open Standards in government ICT procurement. Procurement is where policy is put into practice and more rigorous analysis is needed to understand the challenges and opportunities involved.
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