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 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 - 1 comment
Recently, the European Commission’s IDABC published a document written on contract by Gartner initiating the revision of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and the Architecture Guidelines (AG). Check out the EIF v2.0 Gartner-report.
I represented Denmark in the comittee that created the EIF and maintained the AG, so of course I read the Gartner-report with a More >
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Jason Matusow of Microsoft: Denmark Says ODF and Open XML Ok. Jason calls it “a very positive step forward”. Leif Lodahl of OpenOffice DK also reports: One year evaluation, and comments: “There is no doubt that ODF is here to stay, but Microsoft must prove openness and willingness to other platforms and applications”.
Lars Roark, CIO More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
Bertolt Brecht
To Posterity (1938)
(German: An die Nachgeborenen; Danish: Til Efterkommerne)
The Council of Europe invited me to participate in Forum for the Future of Democracy held in Sigtuna in Sweden this week. The general theme was Power and empowerment: the interdependence of democracy More >
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