Last week I had the great pleasure of participating in the 2008 FutureGov conference in Bali, like last year the participants represented every country in the region and a set of thought leaders in the field of eGovernment here in Asia. On the second day I presented the keynote as part of the technical track, and [...]

A year-and-a-half after the coordinated denial-of-service attacks against its government and commercial computer systems, Estonia has released a national cyber security strategy that includes details about the attacks and offers recommendations for preventing attacks in the future and for a global stance toward cyber security. The report ...

We recently sponsored the Economist Intelligence Unit to write two papers examining the role of collaboration, interoperability and organizational management in the delivery of government services and systems, the end results make for pretty good reading. The first document is titled “Towards Seamless Administration” and takes a look ...

The technology world is one of many buzzwords and phrases, one that you hear a lot at the moment is “Service Oriented Architecture” or “SOA” which sounds like a highly technical methodology for systems design, in reality SOA techniques can provide a very effective way of dealing with organizational complexity and divides as we work [...]

Like many other recent weeks, most of the last seven days has been consumed by travel and interspersed with real work at a couple of really interesting events. On the plus side, I did get to undertake part of that travel on SIA’s new Airbus A380, a stunning plane and a stunning experience, returning home [...]