E-Business Library: July 2006 Archives

E-Business Library > July 31, 2006

Australian minister backs use of standards

[E-Government News] Nairn said local industry can be part of the e-government strategy and called for input from any companies with experience in service orientated architecture (SOA), identity management, single sign-on and smartcards. He said the Australian Government Information Management Office is already working with other organizations on whole of government standards to ensure consensus by industry and government for use under the smartcard program.

IT market in Yemen experiences rapid growth

[E-Government News] He said that growth is extremely positive due to increased interest from younger Yemenis in technological advances and the introduction of services aimed at giving more Yemenis financial access to computers and other IT products. He said that it was no longer enough for companies to merely import preexisting business strategies and technologies to Yemen.

Posted at 03:09 AM

July 31, 2006

Australian minister backs use of standards

Posted at 03:10 AM

IT market in Yemen experiences rapid growth

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July 28, 2006

E-Government Needed To Counter Corruption In Bulgaria

[E-Government News] The introduction of e-government was among the measures needed to counter corruption practices in Bulgaria, Bulgarian International Business Organisation (BIBA) president Sasha Bezuhanova said.On July 26 Bezuhanova would take part in a summit, during which representatives of Bulgarian business organisations would propose collective measures against corruption and the introduction of monitoring mechanisms.

Posted at 03:12 AM

Conference on e-government development opens in East Kazakhstan

[E-Government News] KAZINFORM /Lyudmila Malko/ - The second international conference Electronic government: regional solutions opens today in Ust Kamenogorsk town and will last until July 28.More than 150 delegates from Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Tajikistan will participate in the forum. Among them will be the Director of Academy of E-management of Tallinn city, experts in the sphere of informational communication technologies, leaders of republican and regional regulatory bodies, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), regional mass media and others.

Posted at 03:11 AM

July 25, 2006

eGovernment in developing countries: Critical Need for Human Resources (HR) function transformation

[E-Government News] Recognition of digital signatures, validation of online transactions are critical legal steps in implementation and rollout of egovernment applications; but these are usually the result of egovernment advocates successfully pushing for legal reform with parliament members Similarly, availability of affordable infrastructure, let it be privately owned by the citizen or business (such as an individual PC connected to the Internet via a broadband connection leased from an Internet Service provider) or provided as a service to a set of citizens (such as through a privately owned telecenter or PC users club, where citizens access the Internet and pay a fee based on the time used for connection) depends on the degree of liberalization, and on the number of private operators in the market competing for the consumers’

Posted at 03:12 AM

Education Minister backs blogs in UK politics

[ I’m Simon Dickson.] It’s a tremendous improvement on the comments by John Prescott in his now notorious Today Programme interview - ‘I think it’s called the internet, isn’t it, or blogs or something, I’ve only just got used to letters, John, I haven’t got into all this new technology.’ It’s easy to see why Alan Johnson might be considered one of the Cabinet’s rising stars, and indeed, a possible replacement for Mr Prescott as deputy prime minister.

Posted at 03:10 AM

July 22, 2006

VA committee marks up data protection bill

[FCW Topics] Affairs Committee marked up today the Veterans Identity and Credit Security Act of 2006. The legislative action follows two months of hearings on the theft of sensitive information on 26.5 million veterans, military personnel and their families.

Posted at 03:10 AM

Appeal for cheap Internet services

[E-Government News] A GULF-BASED Internet expert is encouraging governments and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to lower costs of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services across the region in order to promote free access of information to the public.That is the only way governments can expect to encourage the use of e-government services, online literacy and access to information, said Dubai-based International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) GCC Foundation director general Jamil Ezzo.

Posted at 03:09 AM

July 19, 2006

DHS Launches Updated Website for National Preparedness

[FreedomSight] Press release: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Ready Campaign today launched an updated version of its Web site, www.ready.gov, to educate Americans about the simple steps they should take to be ready for a variety of emergencies."

Posted at 03:12 AM

Internet in Kazakhstan: Develop and Regulate

[E-Government News] Shortly after the SCO meeting, Yertysbayev promised to develop the new policy on regulation of the Internet media in Kazakhstan (see China, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for regional examples). Indeed, the information security was one of the issues on the agenda of the SCO meeting, where it was decided to establish the expert groups in the member-states to figure out how to solve the common problem of increasing insecurity related to development of information technology, that can be used for “criminal, terrorist, military or political purposes that run counter to the maintenance of international security.” Well, Internet did prove to be a powerful instrument promoting regional cooperation in the end.

Posted at 03:11 AM

July 16, 2006

More is less

[ I’m Simon Dickson.] More is less Posted July 13, 2006 Comments(0) Once again, the guys at 37signals just get it right. People often think that the best system is the one...

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Posted at 03:11 AM

Why open standards matter

[ A Matter of Perspective: Loek Bakker's weblog] For a second I thought of the title "Do open standards matter?" for this blog posting (I wrote before that I am eternally grateful that Nicholas Carr came up with the utterly brilliant title format "Does matter?" which can be used at any time when you do not have enough inspiration to come up with a catchy title for a posting), but I could resist. Having said that, today I read a news item in a Dutch IT magazine that confirms my belief that open standards are by far more significant than open source.

Posted at 03:09 AM

July 13, 2006

Prescott: blogs topple the official sites

[ I’m Simon Dickson.] Simon, Have I been caught up in the furor on the blogs by alluding to multiple affairs? Thanks for your comments and the link.

Posted at 04:25 AM

Microsoft Office Suite 2007 (review)

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Posted at 03:10 AM

July 10, 2006

"Handbook on Military Law"

[Stark County Law Library Blog] Sabrina posted: Press release: "The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) measures the percentage of working-age households who are at risk of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement ["almost 45% of U.S. households are at risk"]. It addresses one of the most compelling challenges facing the nation today — ensuring retirement security for an aging population."

Posted at 05:32 AM

FCC seeks comments to improve disaster comms

[FCW Topics] The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on proposed rules that aim to improve the country’s ability to restore its telecommunications infrastructure after a natural disaster or terrorist attack.

Posted at 03:11 AM

July 07, 2006

GT Summit to debate IT strategy for Arab governments

[E-Government News] Covering all Arab countries, ICTDAR’s main aim is to assist Arab States in harnessing ICT to reduce poverty, address digital divides and improve both public administration performance and private sector hold and expansion. As an integral part of their objectives, an E-governance programme was launched to provide policy advice to Arab government, establish a regional E-governance Institute (REGI) and setting up an E-governance portal to provide knowledge resources and tools as well as regulatory and legal information.

Posted at 03:17 AM

RSS in UK government (by proxy)

[I’m Simon Dickson.] Cheers to Sam Smith for giving us thegovernmentsays.com - a website which brings together news content from many (but not all) parts of government, and feeds them out again as email or RSS. It may have been there for ages, but I only just discovered it.

Posted at 03:13 AM

July 04, 2006

Consumer Protection Safety Commission Video Clips

[FreedomSight] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) video clips, along with press releases and transcripts. [Michael Ravnitzky]

Posted at 03:13 AM

Non-Starters: Even Start and Sure Start

[ Raw Carrot] Either way, I might start sending letters into the Sure Start Magazine as they give away digital cameras to the “Star Letter” writer - presumably this means they never ever get any hostile/critical letters?

Posted at 03:10 AM

E-Business Library > July 31, 2006

Australian minister backs use of standards

IT market in Yemen experiences rapid growth

July 31, 2006

Australian minister backs use of standards

IT market in Yemen experiences rapid growth

July 28, 2006

E-Government Needed To Counter Corruption In Bulgaria

Conference on e-government development opens in East Kazakhstan

July 25, 2006

eGovernment in developing countries: Critical Need for Human Resources (HR) function transformation

Education Minister backs blogs in UK politics

July 22, 2006

VA committee marks up data protection bill

Appeal for cheap Internet services

July 19, 2006

DHS Launches Updated Website for National Preparedness

Internet in Kazakhstan: Develop and Regulate

July 16, 2006

More is less

Why open standards matter

July 13, 2006

Prescott: blogs topple the official sites

Microsoft Office Suite 2007 (review)

July 10, 2006

"Handbook on Military Law"

FCC seeks comments to improve disaster comms

July 07, 2006

GT Summit to debate IT strategy for Arab governments

RSS in UK government (by proxy)

July 04, 2006

Consumer Protection Safety Commission Video Clips

Non-Starters: Even Start and Sure Start

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