Jo LAHAYE
First CEO of The MMBase Foundation
The MMBase Foundation
Olanda
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Open standards in IT and open source software are a necessity for Europe's economy. 
Subtitle: Especially for Western Europe ?
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ABSTRACT
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Issues: - Effects on innovation and our economy 
- Effects (economical, society) of global sourcing,
  near shoring(western Europe to eastern Europe). 
- Digital sustainability
- Offshoring, near shoring (threads and challenges) 
- Lessons learned (vendor lock-ins, IP Issues)
- Why the top 200 enterprises of the world are struggling 
  with sourcing issues, but not with open sources anymore
- Future.
          
SHORT CV
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Jo Lahaye is the first CEO of The MMBase Foundation, project manager at 
the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, and chairman of HollandOpen; 
the Dutch platform for open standards, open source software and open content.
He has a background in journalism, worked as an ICT project-manager and 
implemented many different CMS, especially in higher education. 
He also advises many Dutch organizations on the use of open source software 
and is the author of many articles on open source and open standards 
issues as well as software patents. 
He has authored multiple articles on this subject, including an article in the 
IBM Systems Journal. He is often invited as a speaker for conferences while he
is also involved with the organization of a number of conferences, 
for instance the Holland Open Software Conference 2006. 
MMBase is, especially in The Netherlands, a widly used web content management system. 
Broadcasters, publishers, educational institutions and (local) governments share 
knowledge, expertise and development.
Where as governments developed a strong authentication and many procedures 
concerning workflow, the broadcasters focus was on streaming video and multimedia 
and the educational field is using and developing a professional e-learning environment.
The MMBase Foundation brings together the best of these worlds.
And now, for example, governments are using streaming techniques
to present council meetings and e-learning for their new employees.