The OSS in Big Cities initiative aims to promote open source software adoption among major cities. It will share success stories and best practices of cities using open source applications for e-government services, smart cities, and other domains. The initiative is led by OW2 and the City of Paris and hopes to engage other large cities. Activities will include networking events, writing documentation, and code/expertise sharing to build strategic awareness and support for open source among city IT leaders and officials. The goal is to help open source solutions gain equal consideration with proprietary options for cities' complex technology needs.

1. OSS in Big Cities Initiative
Cédric Thomas, OW2
Paris Open Source Sumit
Paris 16-17 November, 2016

2. Community
Governance
Activities
Membership Code Base
OW2
Non-Profit Open Source Organization
European and Global

3. OW2 Initiatives Open Source Cloudware initiative
Big Data initiative
Privacy and Security initiative
Future Internet Software and
Services initiative
Open Source Accessibility initiative
OSS in Big Cities initiative
● At OW2, initiatives are joint efforts by its
members that aim to foster use of OW2
technologies by mainstream systems
integrators, end-users and software vendors
● Within an Initiative, OW2 members work
together to develop technical integration
between projects as well as synergies to
address specific market needs

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OSS in Big Cities is
materialized by countless
dedicated open source
business applications.
Examples include:
E-gov services
Office software deployment
Deliberation reporting and voting
Public libraries
OSS in schools
Urban planning
Cemetery management
Call for tender management
… and many others

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The Challenge: OSS still
a minority status
Dedicated applications are
implemented by in-house IT teams
and specialized systems integrators.
The problem is that, beyond their
functional scope, the open source
experience developed by these
projects seem to have little or no
echo at the CIO level.
OSS is only rarely a central
concern
nor a recommended best practice

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Objective of the initiative:
take OSS to the next level
The objective of the OSS in Big
Cities initiative is to leverage real life
OSS applications to help build
strategic awareness at the next level
CIO/CDO
Political stakeholders
Architects/Consultants

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Why “Big Cities” Why not just “Cities”?
Big Cities are different
Complex information systems
In-house IT teams
Multiple technology generations
Smart-city expectations
Complex decision process
Proprietary vendor pressure
Unique information systems
Long-term strategic IT plans

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Activities and
deliverables
Pragmatic activities will help build
the case for OSS in Big Cities
Sharing success stories,
Sharing and discussing best
practices
Writing a white paper
Networking, Face to face meetings
Code and competence sharing
Project match-making
Connect with governments and
EU.
Public sessions in open source and
industry events

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Technology Scope Application domain that will be
covered by the initiative include:
General e-government
Smart City applications
GIS
IoT platform and networks
Computing infrastructure
Other new domains with no legacy

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Potential Participants
Leadership:
OW2 member: City of Paris
Participants
Porto Alegre, Bologna, Aarhus,
Zaragoza...
Contacts
Greater London, Prague,
Munich, Toulouse, Lyon, Torino,
Piedmont, Bolzano, Ljubliana
Marseille, Lyon
Amsterdam
Munich

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Infrastructure
Operational support
OW2 Management Office (MO)
Mailing list
Dedicated mailing list set up by OW2
MO: bigcities@ow2.org
Web pages
Dedicated web mages on the W2
website: ow2.org/bigcities
Wiki pages
Private wiki pages for collaborative
work: bigcities.ow2.org
Marketplace
Initiative projects will be showcased
on AppHub

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www.ow2.org
For more details please contact:
Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, cedric.thomas@ow2.org
Fabien CAUCHI, Metapolis CEO, fabien.cauchi@metapolis.fr