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[ RMLL 2013, Bruxelles Thursday 11 th July 2013 ] Mapping of Belgian open source market Presenter : Dr Ir Robert Viseur Open source in Belgian public sector 2 Prerequisite: organization of Belgium Belgium = federal state composed of


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[ RMLL 2013, Bruxelles – Thursday 11th July 2013 ]

Mapping of Belgian open source market

Presenter : Dr Ir Robert Viseur

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Open source in Belgian public sector

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Prerequisite: organization of Belgium

  • Belgium = federal state composed of regions (territory) and

communities (people).

  • Regions (3): Flemish Region, Walloon Region and Brussels Region.
  • Communities (3): French Community, Flemish Community, German

Community.

  • Merger between Flemish Region and Community (= Flanders).
  • Belgium also composed of provinces (10).
  • Closest to the citizen: Belgian municipalities (589).
  • The municipalities are autonomous but...
  • Subject to the power of supervision of the Walloon region.
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Open source policies in Belgium

  • No real headquaters for informatics policy.
  • Consequence: widely heterogeneous policies...
  • And case-by-case use of free softwares.
  • Differences between federal state, Flanders,

Walloon Region, Brussels Region, French Community, German Community, provinces and municipalities.

  • Policies in municipalties influenced by power of

supervision of the Walloon region.

  • See (Viseur, 2010) for more details.
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Big picture (federal state)

  • Variable use of free softwares.
  • Strong interest in open standards, less for free

sofwares (FEDICT).

  • Open data portal: data.gov.be.
  • European context: INSPIRE, PSI, etc.
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Big picture (Brussels)

  • Variable use of free softwares
  • Support of free softwares by CIRB

(www.cirb.irisnet.be).

  • Example: expertise in OpenOffice.org migration.
  • Interest for open data :
  • Open data portal for city of Brussels:
  • pendata.bruxelles.be.
  • Availability of data from URBIS portal (CIRB).
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Big picture (Flanders)

  • ICT services outsourced to Belgacom and HP

consortium until 2014.

  • Some reference initiatives.
  • Examples:
  • Free software use in Schoten.
  • Open Data in Gent: data.gent.be.
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Big picture (Wallonia and FC) (1/2)

  • ICT teams and external ICT structures dedicated to

Walloon public sector (+ outsourcing: e.g. former GIEI).

  • Walloon authorities in flavour of promoting free

softwares and open data.

  • See « DÉCLARATION DE POLITIQUE RÉGIONALE

WALLONNE ».

  • « Promouvoir l'utilisation des standards ouverts et les logiciels

libres » (p. 120)

  • See « Master Plan TIC ».
  • « Objectif stratégique. Libérer les données publiques pour doper

l'offre de services aux citoyens » (p. 77).

  • But variable use in public sector...
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Big picture (Wallonia and FC) (2/2)

  • Used by ETNIC (www.etnic.be) and SMAL

(www.smals.be) ICT centers.

  • « Sleeping » forge: forge.etnic.be.
  • Bottom-up project: CommunesPlone.
  • Integrated with Qualicité in IMIO inter-communal

structure (www.imio.be).

  • As a replacement for Agoractités and Qualicité

custom softwares.

  • Open data portal (new): opendata.awt.be.
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Keep in mind

  • Two lead projects:
  • CommunesPlone software suite (IMIO).
  • Open data in Gent.
  • Soon: Hackathon eGov Wallonia the 4th, 5th and

6th October 2013 in Namur (hackathonegovwallonia.net).

  • See (Viseur, 2010) for more details.
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Open source companies in Belgium

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Sources of data

  • Study mainly build on LogicielLibre.be directory (~

150 companies).

  • Only for companies clearly communicating their

engagement in open source technologies (pure players or hybrid offer).

  • Less knowledge about the Flemish market.
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Location of companies in Belgium

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Size and rentability of open source companies in Belgium (1/2)

  • Low number of bankruptcies (~5 between 2004 and

2011).

  • Financial indicators (from BNB figures, median):
  • Solvability: 37.1%.
  • Equity: 129 239€.
  • Revenues: 3 256 911€ (partial data).
  • Rentability on assets: 6.8%.
  • Ratio « salaries / added value »: 79.7%.

(work in progress...)

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Size and rentability of open source companies in Belgium (2/2)

  • Ten open source companies in ERP sector (figures

for 2009):

  • Total of 87 employees (average of 9,7 employees by

active company).

  • ~45% of companies have 5 employees or more

(average in walloon ICT sector: ~25%).

  • 80% of companies are profitable.
  • Companies creating the largest number of jobs are

not always the most publicized.

  • Example: Alfea Consulting (22,8 employees, profitable).
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Products and services available in Belgium (1/2)

  • What we looked at :
  • Sale of hardware
  • Certified hardware.
  • Open hardware
  • Open source edition.
  • Services.
  • Hosting, SaaS and cloud computing.
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Products and services available in Belgium (2/2)

(Viseur, 2011)

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Products and services: details (1/2)

(Viseur, 2011)

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Products and services: details (2/2)

(Viseur, 2011)

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Quelles sont les relations entre entreprises ?

(part of the full graph ; work in progress...)

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Lead open source Belgian projects

  • OpenERP.
  • Claroline / Dokeos / Chamilo.
  • CommunesPlone.
  • Drupal.
  • Ekiga.
  • The DataTank (new).
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Discussion

  • Comparison with France
  • Lack of representative organisations such as April

(www.april.org), Aful (aful.org) or CNLL (www.cnll.fr).

  • Differences between popular technologies due to average size of

companies ?

  • In general
  • Wide range of services for open source technologies, but...
  • Lack of providers in several domains (SIG, lawyers and embedded

softwares).

  • Some lead initiatives about open source or open data in public

sector, but...

  • General lack of clarity about open* policies.
  • Commercial activities with open hardware or open data (except

Data.be) ?

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Thanks for your attention. Any questions ?

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Useful additional readings...

  • Verstichel, P. (2013), Open Data – Données Publiques: Et la Wallonie

dans tout ça ?, Jeudis du Libre, Mons, 20 juin 2013.

  • Viseur, R. (2013), Les modèles d'affaires des prestataires en

logiciels libres, Atelier « open source », Agence Bruxelloise pour l'Entreprise (ABE), 27 mars 2013.

  • Viseur, R. (2011), Cartographie des marchés Open Source belges et

français, Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, Strasbourg, 11 juillet 2011.

  • Viseur, R. (2010), Logiciels libres et données ouvertes en Belgique:

point de situation, Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, Bordeaux, 08 juillet 2010.

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Contact

Dr Ir Robert Viseur Email (@CETIC) : robert.viseur@cetic.be Email (@UMONS) : robert.viseur@umons.ac.be Phone : 0032 (0) 479 66 08 76 Website : www.robertviseur.be

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