In December 2006, a decision was made at the European level that every company should have the opportunity to offer its services all over Europe; this decision came to be known as the EU Services Directive. Separately, another initive has recently kicked off in Germany called the Standardized Citizens Service Line D 115, the intention being to ...

Welcome to the CSP Blog, the site where we want to share with you our thoughts, ideas and get your feedback on the evolution of t he Platform. As the owner of the project I have been with it since it was known as ‘Digital Town Hall’ and thus am far too close to be impartial any more. One question I would like to answer which has often ...

As an extension of Microsoft UK's ongoing support of the UK Government Gateway, the team there have also been working with a range of experts in UK Government and the technology vendor community to come up with solutions that address the challenge of secure Identity Management solutions for citizens and government workers.  ...

An exciting new consortium has just been kicked off to serve a Higher Education IT community that wants to use Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 technologies to build out functionality which will support greater collaboration in the classroom, and have a positive impact on Teaching and Learning.  The Consortium are looking for members to ...

I just got the following info today from our US Public Sector team.... Due to popular demand, and to provide better support for planned demos, we have enabled a new feature on the Public Sector Demo Site that will allow you to customize your hosted demos and save the state of the demo for future use.    You will still need to ...

I met up with my colleague, Don Armstrong, the person in Microsoft that leads our efforts around the Government Security Program (GSP)."The GSP fosters partnerships between governments and Microsoft based on collaboration, information exchange, and a mutual trust fortified through ongoing interaction. Representatives of participating ...

Interop is on the agenda of many public sector organizations around the world, for many, knowing where and how to start building a strategy that effectively addresses the needs of citizens, businesses, and government can be a daunting challenge. To address this, and as part of Microsoft's Connected Government Framework initiative team, ...

A while ago, I posted about a brief meeting I had with Sean O'Driscoll, the person in Microsoft responsible for the MVP Program; at that time Sean agreed to do an interview with me where we would dig into some thoughts on what made for successful communities.  Sean is a very passionate and articulate guy, and I would highly recommend ...

Back in June 2006, in support of the SSN Program, we kicked off a research collaboration with the Universities of Boras and Southern California.  We had over 30 countries around the world that were engaging with us on the program, and there were many questions on the issue of what sorts of things need to be considered to build a successful ...

I was delighted to see today that we released a case study that detailled the deployment of an eGovernment gateway in the Czech Republic that has made extensive reuse of the code that we developed for the UK Government Gateway solution.  You can get the case study here. Ironically I was having a discussion with some colleagues today about ...