Transcript RTI ICT Round-table 01.31.2008

4th ICT Round-Table
Washington, DC, 31 January 2008
RTI International is a trade name of Research Triangle Institute
Agenda
1. Welcome and introduction
Gordon Cressman, Senior Program Director, IDG/ICT, RTI
International
2. Open Source Software: Democratizing Content in a Changing
Global Climate
Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Red Hat
3. Open floor discussion
4. Next Round-table - Public/Private partnerships: How to
encourage private funding to expand ICT in international
development projects
Group discussion of trends, lessons learned, best practices
Open Source Software: What is it?
 Development often a collaborative effort including
volunteers
 Source code made available under a copyright
license
 Not necessarily free of license fees, but often is
 License addresses redistribution, derived works,
integrity of author’s work, and other issues
 Good models exist, but must be applied with care
Is it Important in International Development?

Global interest is growing
 Latin America: Expanded business and public sector access to IT
 Brazil, Peru, Venezuela: promote or require use in public sector to
lower costs
 China: drives most business email and adoption of IP VPN services

Benefits vary based on use and focus

Discussion often clouded by misperceptions

Seldom analyzed dispassionately and objectively
The 2006 e-readiness rankings, A white paper from the economist intelligence unit
Open Source Software: Perspectives for Development, Paul Dravis, World Bank InfoDev
Why do we use it?
 Local ownership and
control
 Local capacity
building
 Sustainability
 Speed, flexibility,
power
What we use it for?

Knowledge sharing & management
 Content Management Systems
(CMS)
 Web 2.0 & social networking

Research data collection &
management

Management information systems

Routine health information systems

Systems monitoring, management,
server virtualization, redundancy,
clustering
ASEAN Member Services & ASEAN Regional Forum
Intranet and Extranet Web Sites
Municipal Budget Reform Project, Ukraine
USAID Project Web Site, Contract
India Health 2007
Conference Web Site
HealthGov Philippines
Project Web Site, Cooperative Agreement
Continuous Medical Education System
Iraq Ministry of Health
Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS)
Electronic First Patient Record and Referral System
Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS)
Platform Components
Platform Component
Selected Solution
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server Backup
Arkeia Backup
Wireless Authentication
AEGIS Premium Server
Relational Database
MySQL
Application
Java, Struts, JDBC, Apache DBUtils, AJAX – DWR and
script.aculo.us, Quartz, Junit, XStream
Web Application Server
Apache (httpd) Tomcat (servlet container)
E-mail
Cyrus IMAP, Squirrel Mail, Sendmail, Spam Assassin
E-mail Server Anti-virus
AMaVIS
Introduction to Red Hat
An Open Source Subscription Services Business Model
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 Premier Linux and open source provider
 Most recognized Linux distribution in the world
 Subscription support model for enterprise customers
 Free and open source distribution for anyone
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Triangle, NC
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