Enabling Local Government Innovation with Open Source Software
summary
Open source drives practical wins: Koha began in 1999 in Horowhenua and now runs libraries worldwide with outside contributors (even a Detroit car maker) fixing real problems; councils build GIS stacks from PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoWebCache and MapStore and jointly paid a developer to create an extension that auto-generates LIM reports. A hosted, managed platform now deploys an entire GIS backend in <1 minute on mainstream clouds, maintained by a small local team backed by a 300-person firm, but long‑term maintenance and single‑staff turnover remain the core operational risk.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to open source
- 1:04Koha library system success
- 4:15Global and local open source communities
- 9:16Complexity of open source adoption
- 11:46Simplifying open source deployment
- 13:12Summary and innovation benefits
- 13:44Q&A team and licensing
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