E-Gov Story

Here is an interesting news for E-Gov story in the U.S.A.

Charlie Chaplin

it takes one minute to find a special person, one hour to appreciate them, one day to love them but it takes a whole life to forget them - Charlie Chaplin

Ci vuole un minuto per notare una persona speciale,
un’ora per apprezzarla,
un giorno per volerle bene,
ma poi tutta una vita per dimenticarla - Charlie Chaplin

Better public services for everyone

A very nice video-flash elaborated by EC related to eGovernment.

Story: 1 April 2008. “Follow Lars and Ingrid, a Swedish couple living in Spain, as they discover that requesting a birth certificate for their newborn baby may not be as difficult as they anticipated, thanks to Information and Communication Technologies!”.

Second European Summit on Interoperability in the iGovernment

The Second Summit on Interoperability in the iGovernment will be held in Rome, on September 20th – 22th 2008 by Regione Lazio, Regional Ministry for Consumer Protection and Administrative Simplification, with the organizational support of LAit S.p.A.

The Second Summit will represent a unprecedented occasion for:

1. Enhancing the role of European regions with respect to the priorities of Interoperability as a key element for the efficient, sustainable and equal development of eGovernment and for the creation of an intelligent and innovative European Government, fostering the development of the Knowledge Society, a higher European integration, a substantial increasing of competitiveness and productivity of the EU in the international scenario;
2. Analyzing the European Interoperability Framework produced by IDABC, as a model for the adaptation and comparison of the single European regional frameworks for Interoperability;
3. Verifying the state of the art and promoting successful initiatives in the field of Interoperability in Europe;
4. Proceeding concretely in the constitution of ERNI (European Regional Network for Interoperability) and the other European tools proposed by the Valencia Declaration.

MeTTeG’08

2nd International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government
25-26 September 2008 – Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

The conference intends to bring together researchers, teachers and practitioners active in the area of electronic government from different perspectives and disciplines with a focus on the role played by the information and communication technologies. The main keywords are: methodologies, technologies and tools. Methodologies play an increasingly important role in the management and definition of e-Government initiatives. Technologies improve their efficiency and effectiveness while tools allow new specific services and functionalities.

Interesting cases!

The Scientific American introduce some consideration about semantic tecnologies and enterprise

“Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann, and Susie Stephens. The Semantic Web in Action. Scientific American, 297(6), pp. 90-97, (December 2007).”

British Telecom has built a prototype online service to help its many vendors more effectively develop new products together.

Boeing is exploring the technologies to more efficiently integrate the work of partners involved in airplane design.

Chevron is experimenting with ways to manage the life cycle of power plants and oil refineries.

MITRE Corporation is applying Semantic Web tool kits to help the U.S. military interpret rules of engagement for convoy movements

The U.K.’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, uses the Semantic Web internally to more accurately and inexpensively generate geographic maps

Vodafone Live!, a multimedia portal for accessing ring tones, games and mobile applications, is built on Semantic Web formats that enable subscribers to download content to their phones much faster than before

Harper’s Magazine has harnessed semantic ontologies on its Web site to present annotated timelines of current events that are automatically linked to articles about concepts related to those events

Joost, which is putting television on the Web for free, is using Semantic Web software to manage the schedules and program guides that viewers use online

Swoogle

Swoogle is a search engine for Semantic Web documents, terms and data found on the Web

Take a look to CICERO!

CICERO  is a tool,  developed in NeOn, for facilitating an asynchronous discussion and decision taking process. Its main objective is to raise the efficiency of discussing an ontology’s design rationale.

OMV – Ontology Metadata Vocabulary

Currently, most ontologies exist in pure form without any additional information

OMV represents a proposal for an ontology metadata standard

RFID – EDPS Opinion

Some consideration about RFID in Information Society!

Privacy is an hot hot hot topic