01 / PUBLIC AFFAIRS – CIVIC ACTIVITY
Systems of the public space
Public and civic activity documented as matter-of-factly as technical work: civic tech, digital government, open data and technology in society. No campaign – facts, analyses and real projects.
02 / AREAS
Civic tech Tools and applications that open public information and services to citizens.
Digital government How the state and municipalities deploy technology – and how they could do better.
Open data Working with public datasets: documentation, analyses, usability.
Digital public services State services through the eyes of a user and a systems engineer.
Public projects Concrete initiatives and projects in the public space.
Proposals and documents Concept papers, comments and materials for decision-making.
03 / PUBLIC SERVICE, PAST AND PRESENT
Chair of the city council’s digitalization commission Transforming the city with open technologies.
Member of the city council’s audit committee
Member of the supervisory board of a municipal company The city’s sports facilities.
04 / RESULTS AND INITIATIVES
Live streams of city council meetings Showing that streaming council meetings is feasible – and a step towards a more open town hall.
Open city and transparency Participatory and clickable budgets, open data and cooperation with the Otevřená města (Open Cities) association.
explainer Open data – why is it worth having? What open data is and what it can look like in a town. explainer Clickable and participatory budgets in practice Terms, requirements and acquisition costs. Action plan for open source in public administration Collaborating on practices against vendor lock-in and for adopting open-source software in public offices. Launch of the national OSPO Arranging for an open-source company to take part in the launch of the national open source programme office, organized by the Otevřená města association – a representative on the panel discussion and sponsorship of the event. Cityvizor pilot Connecting data from the State Monitor and showing that a city can run its own storage instead of external clouds. Comments on draft legislation Intelligence services on the internet and the state cloud.
05 / TALKS
2023
About Czech National Open Source Policy Office
2022
SELinux – internal training
2019
Controlling and monitoring a model railway from a Kubernetes cluster on an Intel NUC AppArmor – the basics
2018
Testing SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Digitalization of state and local government
Openness and citizen participation
2017
(Kernel) Isolation – PV, HVM and OS-level virtualization in Linux AppArmor – what it is, what it is for and how to use it AppArmor 2014–2020
Open data and open source in public administration A series of public talks.
TRANSPARENCY AND OPEN SOURCE
For me, transparency and open-source software are not just topics but a way of working. Public matters should be traceable and verifiable and rest on solutions you can look inside. Where a public source exists, I link to it.