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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 ...

Democracy and XML

Nov

2007

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 which of these events will there be discussions about erosion of trust? (hint)

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 ...

Something IS Rotten in the State of Denmark

May

2007

Leif Lohdal is blogging much more continuously about the Danish open standards situation than I am. Time for me to catch up. On 24 April, the Danish Open Source Business Association and the Danish IT Industry Association arranged a conference in Parliament, from which I reported (in Danish, like most of the following links) over at Version2. Peter Strickx made a good presentation (soundtrack) about the situation in Belgium. On the same day, Prosa and Version2 arranged a debate meeting about document standards. They had ...