The Future of Open Data,
Open Source and Open
Content in France
Didier Tranchier - Institut Mines-Telecom
[email protected]
In French, « Open » translates as Liberté = Liberty
We started this Revolution in 1789
First Open Community
« Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité » (1789)
This has been our blood during more than 2 centuries
First rules for Open Community
« Declaration of the Rights of Man » (1789)
Article 1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights
Our Open Community
became global
In 1886, Gustave Eiffel built
the Statue of Liberty that
was given and shipped to
the United States
The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights is adopted by
the United Nations in 1948
in Paris
But we lost our momentum
In May 1968, the
young generation tried
to change our society,
they almost
succeeded… but they
failed
Since then, Liberty has
not been our priority
Fortunately, the digital revolution
has started
Thanks to Finland, the Open
Source movement was created
and in France, we embraced it
In 2004, the French
government begin to move
massively to Open Source
software for their own use
In 2009, Red Hat published
their Global Open Source Index
France is #1 in terms
of Government
Activity
Finland is #1 in terms
of Industry Activity
Overall, Europe is
leading the way
Open Source
Country
France
Spain
Germany
Australia
Finland
United Kingdom
Norway
Estonia
United States of
America
Denmark
Italy
Brazil
Netherlands
Japan
Government
Activity
Rank
Activity
Rank
Industry
Activity
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
4
14
19
7
14
45
25
22
19
4
1
15
2
5
9
10
11
12
13
14
28
12
8
3
19
11
13
8
20
43
7
27
Comm
Educa
Acti
Ran
The strong decision made by our government has
created a market for our Open Source industry
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In 2013, French Open Source
Industry revenues were 2.5 Billion €
6% of total software revenues
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30 000 employees
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300+ companies
68% Revenue Growth per year
source: www.cnll.fr/static/pdf/
panorama-open-source-2013CNLL.pdf
French Success Stories
VLC media player,
www.videolan.org
Founded in 2000 by a team of engineering students from Ecole Centrale in
charge of delivering LAN/internet access to dorm rooms
They wanted to distribute and watch videos using different formats and
codecs
VideoLAN was launched in 2001 as an open source project under GNU GPL
Today, more than 100 million people are using VLC as their video player
VLC is still a non profit organization based in France with a global
community and distributed in 69 different languages
The original team created their own startup Anevia, www.anevia-group.com ,
that was listed on the Paris stock exchange last year
Linagora,
www.linagora.com
The company was founded by one of
our student, Alexandre Zapolsky in
2000
Linagora is an Open Source editor
Leader in email messaging for
governments and large groups
120 employees: France, United States,
Canada, Vietnam, Tunisia
12 Million € of revenues
Nuxeo,
www.nuxeo.com
Nuxeo was founded in 2000 by Stéfane Fermigier
Nuxeo is an Open Source Enterprise Content
Management (ECM) editor
The company has raised almost 10 Million € from
VC funds to go international and is growing
rapidly on the global market
100 employees
Stéfane Fermigier is also very active in the Open
Source community
He co-founded in 2008 the Open World Forum
which is a global event for Open Source
Community that takes places every year in Paris
Talend, www.talend.com
The company was founded in 2005 by Bertrand Diard
Talend is an Open Source editor for Big Data and Cloud Data
In 2007, they are one of the founding member of OW2 (ObjectWeb2), a consortium with thousands of
developers all around the world
The company raised a total of 60 Millions $ (Balderton Capital, …)
40 Millions $ of revenues, 400 employees, now headquartered in Redwood City in the United States
Open Data
In 1978, the government created CADA (Administrative Data Access
Commission) in charge of making sure that anyone can access any
administration data
In 2007, CADA published a document on how to access public data and how
it can be reused
In 2011, a portal called data.gouv.fr was created to centralize all public open
data
Open Licence was published for all Public Data (2 pages)
Source: www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence
In 2014, the first Chief Data Officer, Henri Verdier, was nominated to
accelerate public Open Data
Data already available:
Public services
Transportation
Taxes
Health
May 2014: Open Data Open Licence
The « Producer » grants the « Re-user » a worldwide, perpetual, free of charge, non-exclusive, personal
right to use the « Information » subject to this licence under the freedoms and the conditions set out below.
You are free to re-use the « Information » :
•
To reproduce, copy, publish and transmit the « Information » ;
•
To disseminate and redistribute the « Information » ;
•
To adapt, modify, transform and extract from the « Information », for instance to build upon it in order
to create « Derivative information » ;
•
To exploit the « Information » commercially, for example, by combining it with other « Information », or
by including it in your own product or application.
You must, where you do any of the above :
•
Attribute the « Information » by acknowledging its source (at least the name of the « Producer »)
and the date on which it was last updated.
The « Re-user » may fulfill this condition by providing one or more hypertext links (URL) referring to the «
Information » and effectively acknowledging its source. or any other public entity, of the « Re-user » or the
re-use of the « Information ».
Open Content
We have an old tradition for Open Content:
cuisine recipes have always been Opened
and you can become famous for Open
recipes
In 2008, Toulouse Library decided to publish
photos on Flickr Commons
In October 2014, 23 French Museums
shared images on Artsy, www.artsy.net
In 2015, all French Museums have to create
images for all their collections and publish
them on a unique website, www.photo.rmn.fr
POPULATION
(billion)
Open Data: Snips,
www.snips.net
3
1
1950
2012
2050
When modern cities were created, only 10% of the world’s
population lived in them. In 2012, it reached 50%. According to
the World Health Organisation the urban population is expected to
double in the next 40 years which means that more than 6 billion
people will be living in cities.
problems, it is becoming increasingly obvious that cities do
not scale. The problem is that inability to scale always leads to
systemic failure. And it will happen to our cities, unless we do
something about it.
Source: World Health Organisation
SCALING
CITIES by
REQUIRES
Snips is a French startup company founded
in 2012
3 Ph.D.BIG DATA
At :snips, we believe that scaling cities requires smart
scientists
infrastructures, agile policies and behavioural changes. These
predictive
of the dynamics of cities.
At first, they develop Big Data applications
forunderstanding
large companies
This is why, just as Google became the platform of the digital
:snips we are
building a platform to measure, analyse and predict what
happens in cities.
Tranquilien, predicts if you will have empty seats in suburban
trains, www.tranquilien.com
RetailFlow predicts how long you will wait at the post office
IT’S A MAJOR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
SafeSignal predicts the probability of car accident using data
from telco and your GPS in the car
investments, and will be an enabler of smart cities solutions.
Then they decide to create a Open Data personal application
that mix Open Data coming from government, from telcos, and
from users
The more users are using their application, the more it will be
accurate
In June 2015, the company raised 6.3 Million $ from American
and French investors
:snips
URBAN
BIG DATA
Open objects: Parrot,
www.parrot.com
Parrot is a French company founded in 1994 by
Henri Seydoux specialized at first on BlueTooth
technology
Parrot was the first to launch cheap drones that
you can control with a smartphone
Parrot was the first to launch a sensor that
monitors your flowers, FlowerPower
Around each object, there is a community of
Open Source developers that develop
applications in Github
Parrot is listed on the French Stock Exchange,
1000 employees, 243 Millions € of revenues in
2014, Market value: 0.5 Billion €
Open Education: 42: born to code, www.42.fr
A new school funded in 2013 by Xavier Niel,
a digital entrepreneur and billionaire
No professors, No classrooms, No dorm
rooms, No tuition fees
1-month selection process: The Swimming
Pool: 1 out of 3
No education background, age limit : 30
years
3 years of coding, group work and innovation
Self pace, Peer grading, Open Source
community, Digital Entrepreneur
This is our future… Open Education
This is Revolution
Our future is Human Liberty / Liberté
Open Movement is
spreading to many new
fields thanks to the
Digital Revolution
This transformation will
not be easy: it is a Fight
for Liberty for Humanity
But are we, individually
and collectively, ready
for Liberty? Can we
save the world?