about 3 weeks ago - No comments
The Danish Government Business Reference Model – FORM (in Danish) – is an overview of what the Danish public administration does, which services it provides, and which legislation that regulates these services.
I have been ‘playing around’ with the dataset FORM makes up. In the blog menu, you will find links to pages about Project NemFORM.
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about 4 months ago - No comments
I am pleased to announce that the book, “State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards“, is now in production and will be available for ordering in your favorite bookshop very soon.
But wait, there’s more: On 18 November, the free, online version will be available from 21gov.net.
Read the press release.
Follow the book @gov20book on Twitter. More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
Now the Coherency Management book is out, my next book project has ben launched. With the working title “State of the eUnion – Government 2.0 and Onwards”, the book will be published in min-November this year (reason), so it needs to be written in a rush. I have already invited a number of contributors, but More >
about 8 months ago - No comments
As indicated in a 140 char note on Twitter, I’m leaving Europe. For a month, that is. I am going on a flight/roadtrip, part work, part vacation. Locationwise roughly as follows:
Toronto from July 17th to 25th.
Washington, DC from July 26th to 31st.
Ottawa from July 31st to August 6th.
Boston from August 7th More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
Speaking of changes … the Danish central administration is facing some major changes.
Yesterday, Computerworld broke the news (Gigantisk it-revolution på vej i staten): The government will establish two centralised, state-wide administrative service centres, one for IT service, and one for HR, travel admin, financial management, etc. Today, the Minister of Taxation came out and More >
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
Two of my students (Michael and Søren) did an interesting small project about the “document format war” in december, and we had a good discussion at the exam here this week. They’d interviewed three key actors in the Danish OpenXML/ODF-debate, and presented a very decent, if slightly biased, analysis.
But bias seem to be the menu More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
I’m in the US (Washington, Boston, Washington) from 26 Nov to 7 Dec.
I have been invited to come over to Washington, DC, to attend a researchers and practioners meeting in the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, which will be held Thu-Sat this coming week.
After that, I go to Boston for the XML 2007 conference.
Pop quiz: At More >
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
(Updated 20 September)
Just heard this news from the Netherlands: On behalf of the Dutch government, Frank Heemskerk, Minister State Secretary of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009. Heemskerk’s announcement is just More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
Moments ago, ISO issues a press release: Vote closes on draft ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard:
A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has not achieved the required More >
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
It’s official: Denmark has voted No with Comments to ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML. See Danish Standards’ press release (in Danish). They are submitting 64 pages of comments, and state that Denmark will work for an approval assuming the comments will be addressed.
I’ve read through the comments, and find them balanced and thorough. It will require More >
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