The document discusses how open source and open data can help make the UK public sector more effective. It notes that open source enables innovation without legal fees and can reduce avoidable contact through channel shifting. Studies found direct financial benefits of open data agreements in Europe and significant increases in commercial use of public datasets when they were made freely available. The document suggests open source and open data can help with integration and realizing true potential by connecting to something larger than any individual organization.

2. I'm not going to talk about risk, or TCO

3. Training Hardware Maintenance Support Entry Costs Exit Costs Volume Licensing

4. Training Hardware Maintenance Support

5. Biggest barriers to adoption of open source in local government Public Sector Forums: Open or Closed? A survey of Open Source Software in Local Government, August 2009

6. Or how open source is not communism

7. I'm going to talk about something bigger and fuzzier

8. Channel Shift Integration Innovation

9. Channel Shift?

10. Reduce Avoidable Contact

12. Innovation?

13. “ Open Source enables innovation without lawyers or fees ” Roger Burkhardt: CEO of Ingres

14. “...direct financial benefits from the agreement for society in the period 2005-2009 amount to around EUR 62 million” “Number of datasets downloaded and used in commercial applications went up by 7,000%.” http://wiki.linkedgov.org/index.php/The_economic_impact_of_open_data Making Dutch Address dataset free of charge Making Austrian Public Sector Data available for marginal cost

15. Integration?

19. “ It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential” Barack Obama