Open Government Architecture: The evolution of De Jure Standards, Consortium Standards, and Open Source Software

Francois Coallier, CIRANO, and Robert Gérin-Lajoie, CIRANO

3/28/2008
(Original Publish Date: 2/1/2006)

Conducted for the Treasury Board of Québec, this study seeks to present recent contributions to the evolution, within an enterprise architecture context, of de jure and de facto standards by various actors in the milieu, industrial consortia, and international standardization committees active in open source software. In order to be able to achieve its goals of delivering services to citizens and society, the Government of Québec must integrate its computer systems to create a service oriented open architecture. Following in the footsteps of various other governments and the European Community, such an integration will require elaboration of an interoperability framework, i.e. a structured set of de jure standards, de facto standards, specifications, and policies allowing computer systems to interoperate.