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European Interoperability Framework 2.0

Dec

2010

This week, the European Commission announced an updated interoperability policy in the EU. The Commission has committed itself to adopt a Communication that introduces the European Interoperability Strategy (EIS) and an update to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), “two key documents that promote interoperability among public administrations”, part of EUs Digital Agenda. I have followed, and been part of, the EU work on interoperability since the early days. I worked with the Bangemann Report during my PhD research. In the late 1990s, I worked for the Swedish government, and ...

Microsoft and Danish Government in New Identity Deal

May

2007

A year ago, my former collegue SÃ¸ren Peter Nielsen wrote, on behalf of the Danish government, a letter to Microsoft. Seems he got a response, and I’m sure it’ll interest XMLGrrl and many others, that an announcement was made yesterday: Agreement between the National IT and Telecom Agency and Microsoft: Agreement concerning partial support of the SAML 2.0 standard. “The ongoing dialog between the National IT and Telecom Agency and Microsoft has resulted in an agreement on partial support of the SAML 2.0 standard in ...

Conference Time

May

2007

I’ll be attending a few conferences as a member of the Press in the coming weeks, so if you’re there too, and want to meet up, do get in touch. On Sunday, I’ll leave for Vienna for SAPPHIRE 2007. “Business at the speed of change“. It’ll be interesting to hear more about where SAP is with SOA and much more, but frankly, the presentation I look forward to the most is the one by Geoffrey Moore, on Business Network Transformation to Create Competitive Advantage. Then ...

Standards – A Critical Frontier for Research 2

Aug

2006

The esteemed scholary journal MIS Quarterly has issued a Special Issue on Standard Making. The introductory article by the editors Kalle Lyytinen and John Leslie King, Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier For Information Systems Research, is freely available, as are abstracts for all articles, but you need access to a research database to get online access to full-text articles. It is great to see the emerging scholary interest in standards. Kudos to Lyytinen and King for the initiative to the special issue, which I ...