A conversation yesterday moved into the realm of Digital Identity management, a topic that I know won’t be alien to a lot of people who read this blog. As a follow on to that conversation I thought it might be worth refreshing myself on a piece of work that was published a few years ago [...]

Earlier today I had the honor of participating in the Business Stakeholder meetings being held in Seoul preparing for the OECD Ministerial Meeting on “The Future of the Internet Economy” that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. My input to the meeting was pretty straight forwards, the goal was to demonstrate that ...

This will be a post of unfair generalizations, regardless of what I say in the next few paragraphs it should be noted that countries around the region are generally doing an outstanding job of driving their respective eGovernment Programs - there is always room to reflect and improve though. The 2008 eGovernment Readiness Survey has been [...]

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a number of geographies where a governments had made a selection of one standard over another. This [...]

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a number of geographies where a governments had made a selection of one standard over another. This [...]

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 [...]

Over the last decade or more I have been involved in a large number of eGovernment projects, some at a national level, some regional and some local government projects. At the Government Technology Summit in Phuket earlier today we were discussing what to look for in a project to help decide what sort of outcome there will be [...]

I’m sat here with a huge pile of paperwork preparing for the Government Technology Summit in Phuket later this month. Microsoft is sponsoring an award for technology leadership and the paperwork represents the amazing array of submissions put forwards by governments in Asia and elsewhere in the world.  Fifteen years ago I was involved in ...

The link below is to a tool that I was originally shown in demo form at a conference in Prague last year, it is great to see the final version hosted and made available to anybody who wants to slice and dice the data. Those of you who follow the movements of the eGovernment world will be familiar [...]