Project NemFORM

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. To demonstrate how the reference model can be used, I have created this simple application (autosuggesting services; reference), which can also be used on a mobile device (tested on Android ...

Microsoft and Danish Government in New Identity Deal

A year ago, my former collegue Søren 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

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, Security, and Sectors

I’m going – are you? The third annual OASIS Adoption Forum is held in London on 27-29 November. The forum is themed Enabling Efficiency between Government, Business and the Citizen: Managing Secure Interactions in Sector Applications, and the list of presenters is very impressive. Also note that a Workshop on the State and Future of PKI has just been announced being part of the event. There will be sessions about adoption of OASIS standards such as SAML, XACML, and WS-Security. OASIS Adoption Forum “seeks to ...