Open Source Solutions – Surevine's Open Source Solutions in the Public Sector – Visual Social Media

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A presentation about using open source software in the public enterprise, written for a specific event

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Open Source Solutions

Surevine's Open Source Solutions in the Public Sector

Created by @surevine

Agenda

Public Social Systems - state of play Lightning tour of Surevine Solutions In-depth look at four examples

Public Social Systems

Visual Social Media

  • Photo blogging but with a slant towards 'pinning' stuff you like. Almost like social bookmarking.

  • Blogging platform, originally inetnded for photo blogging - like Twitter for images
  • Now handles many content types including text and audio blogs
  • And they're very popular - Pinterest and tumblr are the fastest growing social networks

  • Photo sharing with your friends.

  • 30 second looping video micro-blogging
  • Created through a mobile app - so only published from mobile
  • But they are shared via twitter so can be consumed from any platform

Snapchat

  • Photo sharing, but with automatic expiry for privacy
  • Only two years old but already handling nearly half a billion message per day
  • Recently turned down a $3bn cash buyout offer from Facebook
  • Very popular with teens who want to share sensitive images but ensure they're only viewed once

YouTube

  • Most popular video sharing site and usage still increasing
  • Users can follow other users and companies on YouTube 'Channels'
  • However, recently implemented forced Google+ authentication making anonymous comments more difficult. This hasn't been very well received and may well send user to other video sites such as:

Vimeo

  • Video sharing, but with an eye to higher quality, better produced videos

Why?

"A picture tells a thousand words"

  • Much quicker to take a picture of what you're doing and share it with friends than to write about it.

Mobile

  • Better, cheaper mobile technology
  • Increased smartphone user base
  • 75% of active Twitter users are on mobile
  • Tablets and mobiles are replacing many of the uses of traditional computing
  • Mobile technology is now very cheap
  • More people have smartphones

Facebook

  • Most popular social platform
  • Key to success is the ecosystem
  • Teen usage is dropping
  • Teen usage dropping because of intrusive advertising (especially on mobile), also privacy concerns.
  • Facebook still dominates the social platforms in terms of active user numbers

Google+

  • 52% of internet users have accounts
  • However, less than half of these are active users
  • Almost everyone who uses Google services will have a Google+ account, even if they don't know it!
  • Facebook: 68% of total internet users have accounts, and most of these are active

Document Sharing

Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Microsoft SkyDrive

  • Storing and sharing files is simple
  • Rich interfaces onto your content
  • There are a multitude of free and cheap services available
  • They make uploading really simple: Desktop sync, rich html5 interfaces, etc.
  • They make sharing really simple
  • They provide rich interfaces: photo/video galleries, online editing, etc.

Surevine Solutions

A lightning tour

  • Incident Reporting
  • Enterprise Microblogging
  • Social Networks & Social Voting
  • Source Code Sharing
  • Instant Messenger

Incident Reporting

A collaboration platform to connect key security stakeholders throughout the public and private sectors

Users can

  • Raise and read incident reports
  • Act anonymously if need-be
  • Recieve security bulletins relevant to them
  • Interact with members of their community

IR - an incident report

IR - an activity feed

Enterprise Microblogging

Users share status updates within the enteprise, topics or teams

Federateable, secure, on-premises

Screenshot

ITF Social Network

  • Workflow on RFI / bids
  • Social Voting

Gitlab

Securely share source code

Instant Messenger Integration

Supplied an instant-messaging capability to connect a number of UK Govt departments

Integrated the capability with the customers corporate toolset

Example - content management web application

In Depth

  • Enterprise Microblogging
  • ITF - Social Network & Social Voting
  • MediaWiki with Security Plugins
  • Instant Messenger Integration

IM Integration Example

Enterprise MicroBlogging in Depth

ITF Social Network in Depth

MediaWiki

Developed for Wikipedia and used by 1000s of others including:

  • Intellipedia - US Intelligence Community
  • Diplopedia - US Dept of State
  • United Nations
  • UK Government Departments

Customised by us to apply security markings to wiki pages

Intellipedia

Diplopedia

United Nations - INTSTRAW

This software runs Wikipedia and is therefore guaranteed to be thoroughly tested, will continue to be developed well into the future, and future technicians on these wikis will be more likely to have exposure to MediaWiki than any other wiki software.

Anna Maron & Mikel Maron, 2007: A stealth transform: introducing wikis to the UN

MediaWiki - applying a security marking

MediaWiki - viewing a secured page

Mediawiki extensibility

Over 700 configuration options and 2,000 known extensions

Available extensions include:

  • Rich text and media editors
  • Security, backup and information management features
  • Integration with corporate LDAP, Single-Sign-On etc
  • Custom Themes and UIs
  • Custom metadata
  • ...and many more!

Thanks for listening!

This prestation is available on Github

Thanks for listening!

Open Source Solutions Surevine's Open Source Solutions in the Public Sector Created by @surevine