White House Open Data roundtable #4

[Steven De Costa]

Hiya folks,

I recently received an invitation to attend the 4th open data roundtable hosted by the White House on the subject of, How can we leverage private-sector expertise and abilities?

I submitted details from the perspective of Link Digital in March so it was a bit of a shock to get the invite over the weekend. Despite the short notice I've managed to arrange things for travel next week. I hope to learn as much as I can from attendees while also sharing information from the work Link Digital has been doing here in Australia.

As a company which provides establishment, hosting and support services around CKAN we've had many experiences over the last three years that are likely similar to others who work in this area. The standout point for us is the following:

Govt users of CKAN, which is certainly open source and free of license costs, still need to consider and budget for supporting the ongoing development of the software over the life of their contract terms.

I think that more experienced providers of CKAN services will try to make this point, or will try to quote services in a way that allows them to spend additional time contributing work upstream, but without the right procurement conditions it can be hard to competitively factor such costs into the work our clients request us to quote on. This is the point I'd like to most emphasize during the roundtable session next Wednesday.

From the perspective of the CKAN Association steering group, which includes representatives from Link Digital, Viderum and OpenGov, all with private sector contracts, the experience appears to be fairly universal. I understand that Ashley Casovan from Data.CA, also in the steering group, has put a fair bit of thought and action into this point via the CKAN Govt Working Group. So, in general, its a problem that is being looked at by at least some Govt users.

Although I'm primarily attending the roundtable to voice a perspective from Link Digital's viewpoint I'm very happy to take on any specific points others in the CKAN community would like to share. Please feel free to send me a direct email on anything you'd like to load into my head, or share more broadly in reply to the group :)

Cheers,

Steven

STEVEN DE COSTA | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
www.linkdigital.com.au

   

[Andrew Hoppin]

Thanks Steven, 

That echoes our experience significantly on the DKAN side of the house as well.  I'll see you at the White House next week, and would love to see us work together to promote ideas for how to improve the situation, so that open source can be competitive every time.

Best,

Andrew

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Andrew Hoppin

President, NuCivic Open Data Solutions

GovDelivery Inc.

andrew...@govdelivery.com

@getnucivic | @govdelivery

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[Steven De Costa]

Great stuff :) Will be good to see you again. 

Rock on!

STEVEN DE COSTA | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
www.linkdigital.com.au

   

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