Track:   Public Sector Open Source

Abstract: Inter-agency and cross-agency business systems are hard to get flying. If you want to further the horizontal collaboration between agencies of government and others you need to agree on a range of issues relevant to the development, support and maintenance of applications. You may start from above by an outline of IT policy, architectural principles, obligatory standards, common datamodels or you may opt foranother approach, i.e. to go bottom-up by sharing in development and maintenance of a customized business system forming a "club". You may consider OpenSource a business model furthering the opportunities for collaboration. Which are the better way to merge the two strategies, gain from mutual inspiration and contributions, and which procedures could we adopt to assure architectural principles like e.g. interoperability and security or eventually cater for common functions like e.g. single-sign-on? In the panel we have experienced IT managers that have a key position and an attitude to these challenges to applications development.