Consultancy Services for developing a National Open Source Policy and Strategy and Action Plan for Mauritius Specific Contract No. 2014/338761 FWC BENEFICIARIES 2009 - LOT 3: Information and Communication Technologies EuropeAid/132633/C/SER/Multi Open Source Strategy for Mauritius D a t e : 3 0 t h J u n e 2 0 1 4 Project financed by ASTEC Global ICT Consortium European Union www.astecglobal.com National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius “Open Mauritius, like you have never experienced IT before!” National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius Prepared for the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology with the support of European Union by: Andrej Kositer CEO, Agenda Open Systems; www.agenda.si coordinator, COKS Slovenian Open Source Competence Center IPROK, Institut for Research and development of Open Source [email protected] Olivier Alais Co-founder, Soukeina; www.soukeina.com [email protected] National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius Table of Contents VISION.........................................................................................................................1 Principles of implementation of OSS policy and strategy..............................................................2 Definitions....................................................................................................................................3 Open Source Software...............................................................................................................3 Open Standards.........................................................................................................................6 Open Content..........................................................................................................................10 Open Data..............................................................................................................................13 STRATEGY FORMULATION AND PLANNING......................................................................15 Reference documents..................................................................................................................15 Open Mauritius SCALE up framework.........................................................................................16 Analysis of current baseline........................................................................................................17 The concepts of the strategy design.............................................................................................19 STRATEGY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES................................................................................21 Stakeholders landscape and typical groups.................................................................................23 GOV.......................................................................................................................................23 EDU........................................................................................................................................27 Tertiary and universities...........................................................................................................29 OSS Communities...................................................................................................................34 Private.....................................................................................................................................35 ICT and OSS ICT sector...........................................................................................................36 OSS open ecosystem...................................................................................................................37 What is ICT ecosystem.............................................................................................................37 Four strategy pillars....................................................................................................................38 OSS enabled education system on all levels.............................................................................38 National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius OSS based research activities on universities and tertiary education.........................................38 Common place for all OSS, OS, OC and OD activities.............................................................38 Common collaboration platform and technology platform.......................................................39 Shared goals................................................................................................................................40 Goal 0.1 NOSECC...................................................................................................................40 Goals for specific entities............................................................................................................43 GOV.......................................................................................................................................43 EDU........................................................................................................................................50 Tertiary and universities...........................................................................................................52 Private.....................................................................................................................................53 OSS Communities...................................................................................................................54 ICT and OSS ICT sector...........................................................................................................54 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE......................................................................................56 NOSECC - National Open Source Excellence and Competence centre........................................56 Some particularities of the local OSS environment in Mauritius................................................56 Proposed role and activities.....................................................................................................58 Common place for OSS activities.............................................................................................59 Open Summit Mauritius...........................................................................................................60 OSS technology areas..............................................................................................................60 Working Groups.........................................................................................................................62 OSS technologies....................................................................................................................62 OS Procurement......................................................................................................................62 SmartOSS................................................................................................................................62 OSS Content............................................................................................................................63 OSS EDU................................................................................................................................63 PROPOSED INITIATIVES.................................................................................................64 Legal framework.........................................................................................................................64 National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius Technical infrastructure..............................................................................................................64 Organizational framework..........................................................................................................64 Educational initiatives.................................................................................................................65 Annex A. The Open Source Definition (Annotated).....................................................................66 Annex B. Approved OSI licenses.................................................................................................69 Annex C. Definition of Open Data by Opendefinition.org annotated..........................................72 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS................................................................................................75 REFERENCES.................................................................................................................76 National Open Source Software Strategy for the Republic of Mauritius VISION The future development of information society in the Republic of Mauritius shall be based on a shared and open knowledge-based society, open standards, technological neutrality and broadly available ICT to empower citizens and the private sector. The Government of the Republic of Mauritius (Government of Mauritius / GoM) is clearly aware of the benefits and positive impacts of using and fostering the usage of OSS in the development of information society and human capital, in the development of prospective pillars of economy, specifically the ICT sector,