SFSCON23 - Johannes Näder Linus Sehn - Let’s monitor implementation of Free Software Policies!
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The document discusses the need for implementing free software policies across Europe, advocating that software developed with public funding should be made available as free software. It highlights the challenges faced, such as the dilution of the term 'digital sovereignty' and the lack of monitoring mechanisms. The proposal for 'tedective' aims to make European public procurement data more accessible and encourage the exploration of alternatives to proprietary software.
SFSCON23 - Johannes Näder Linus Sehn - Let’s monitor implementation of Free Software Policies!
- 1. SFSCon · 10.11.2023 Let’s monitor implementation of Free Software Policies! How to sharpen the demand for public code across Europe and monitor progress with Johannes Näder · jn@fsfe.org · johas@mastodon.social Policy Project Manager · Free Software Foundation Europe
- 2. Free Software Foundation Europe We are a charity that empowers users to control technology.
- 3. Free Software improve The software can be modified by you or others to give back to the community. share The software can be shared without limitations. The price doesn’t matter. study The software and its code can be analysed by anyone. use The software can be used for any purpose, without restrictions. § §
- 4. 1 - Public Money? Public Code! A success story 2 - Challenges and focus shift 3 - How to monitor implementation with TEDective
- 5. Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?
- 6. We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. https://publiccode.eu Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?
- 7. Public Money? Public Code! We aim at incremental change across Europe, on all levels. Sign our open letter it now if you haven’t done it! https://publiccode.eu Our brochure with best practices, definitions, arguments, how-tos is a great tool to convince decision-makers and people in administrations. We have good arguments: overcoming vendor lock-in, enabling collaboration, creating trustworthy systems, supporting sustainability, and fostering local communities and SMEs.
- 8. A success story … The slogan is widely known and used. Free Software is regarded to be key for digital sovereignty. Commitments, papers (strategies, regulations, code repos). E.g. Digital Administration Code (CAD) Italy + AGID guidelines causing paperwork for proprietary software There is a momentum for Public Money? Public Code! In Europe!
- 9. Time to sit back?
- 10. Challenges Paper doesn’t blush. Fine words are not enough. We need concrete progress in implementing Free Software policies. The term “digital sovereignty” is being diluted. European server locations and diversification are not sufficient. We encounter attempts of open-washing. “Based on Free Software” “Free Software”! ≉ Vague wordings and loopholes weaken existing policies. How can we monitor progress if there are no indicators and statistics?
- 11. How to react? Time for a focus shift of Public Money? Public Code! We need to monitor implementation of Free Software policies even more vigilantly and be ready to intervene when things move in the wrong direction. If we want Public Money? Public Code! to become a reality, we need to be more like watchdogs.
- 12. What’s Tenders Electronic Daily? TED publishes European public procurement data as XML since 2015. ~700k notices p.a. describing procurement processes totalling at least € 670 billion p.a. in value. Everything (above a certain threshold) that public institutions in the EU buy from whom for how much is in there.
- 14. Problems with TED You can’t search by type of organization No typo-tolerance No ability to visualize the results beyond HTML, let alone the relationships between organizations
- 15. Problems with TED You can’t search by type of organization No typo-tolerance No ability to visualize the results beyond HTML, let alone the relationships between organizations
- 16. Solutions for analysing TED? There have been a number of attempts to make TED data more accessible. Yet, we weren’t able to identify a single, freely accessible solution based fully on Free Software that allows you to explore European public procurement networks. This is why we applied to last year’s EU Datathon …
- 17. A free and open-source solution to make European public procurement data explorable for non-experts
- 18. 18 User journey You might be a civil servant who wants to know who buys what from Microsoft to see how much money you could save by using free software instead? Or you are a journalist, who want to investigate the recent purchases made by the Polish Border Guard. TEDective will allow anybody to explore European public procurement data.
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- 24. 24 TEDective’s key characteristics Software is made for people. TEDective is and will be designed, maintained and monitored transparently and in close co-operation with all relevant stakeholders and user groups. … is developed and released under a free and REUSE-compliant license so that others can use, share, study and improve it.
- 25. 25 2 TEDective’s key characteristics Linked data is more interesting. Our aim is to connect cleaned and deduplicated TED data with other publicly available data sources. We love interoperability! This is why we will offer bulk downloads of our cleaned and deduplicated data, compliance with OCDS and an OpenAPI interface.
- 26. 26 Enriching TEDective OpenCorporates would enrich the data on buyers and suppliers and link them to individuals. OpenSanctions would allow us to highlight potentially sanctioned entities. The OffshoreLeaks database by the ICIJ would highlight potential links to offshore companies.
- 27. How you can get involved All the code https://git.fsfe.org/TEDective To contribute create an account via https://my.fsfe.org/register/new Website https://tedective.org Email tedective@fsfe.org
- 28. How you can get involved All the code https://git.fsfe.org/TEDective To contribute create an account via https://my.fsfe.org/register/new Website https://tedective.org Email tedective@fsfe.org Please donate. https://fsfe.org/donate