Overcoming barriers for successfully building an open source community : a case study of Open e-PRIOR, an e-procurement software project at the Europ…

2012

Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 In 2009, the European Commission (EC) released an e-Procurement platform named e-PRIOR (electronic PRocurement Invoicing and Ordering). To support the objectives defined in 2010 e-Government action plan, an open source-version of e-PRIOR, called Open e-PRIOR, was also made available. Open e-PRIOR is a key enabler for secure e-Delivery in the e-Procurement domain, and the project aims to foster adoption of e-Procurement at European level. However, Open e-PRIOR is currently managed by the EC, not taking advantage of its open source nature. Besides, the EC also realized that the Open e-PRIOR project is of value both across secto…