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As part of this process local government XML schemas currently held on GovTalk will be migrated to e-SB’s Custodian website. The two organisations will work in partnership to ensure continuity of service for schema users and developers.

The local government body set up to promote e-government standards and guidance for councils is to appoint a service provider to help take forward its work, it announced on 15 March 2005. The search for a service provider follows concerns over the body's future from local IT representatives.

e-GIF sets out the policies and standards for e-government and e-service development and delivery. All public sector systems used to deliver e-services must comply with the Framework.

The e-Service Delivery Standards will set comprehensive benchmarks that will enable Local Authorities to assess their current level of e-enablement and aim to encourage joint working efficiency through consistent levels of service provision. They will also help Local Authorities understand how the Priority Outcome and IEG requirements affect the way they need to deliver their services to customers and where this fits into the overall e-gov efficiency agenda.

The NCC has long been an advocate of the benefit of standards to business. These benefits may be technical; they may be business; they may be both. However, realising these benefits can require a level of discipline that the forces of chaos often militate against. The short term business benefits to this year's P&L account, or in meeting this year's public sector targets tempt one towards the quick fix rather than having an eye to the long view.

"When ODPM asked us to lead on the National eService Delivery Standards (NeSDS) programme to deliver a range of e-service delivery standards we were happy to do so. It is important that we all help each other as local authorities to provide efficient and consistent levels of service to our customers.

The government is looking to establish a common IT purchasing language to help it deal with any supplier, regardless of size.

If XML trials being conducted by Whitehall buying arm the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) prove successful, the way the government operates will fundamentally change.

200 Local Authorities have now been actively involved in the creation of the eService Delivery Standards through direct participation in the steering groups or facilitation workshops – they have been the key to the shape and content of the eService standards.

The new document standard will help eliminate ID fraud and thus increase border security. The registry may become accessible to all the relevant European services and institutions, improving the time and cost efficiency of their work, including the shortened border control procedure.

Das Unicode Consortium hat den Unicode-Standard 4 veröffentlicht. Darin werden über 96.000 Zeichen für die Darstellung von Texten in unterschiedlichsten Sprachen definiert. Unicode ist die offizielle Art der Implementierung des ISO/IEC-Standards 10646 und ist wesentlich für die internationale Nutzbarkeit diverser Standards wie XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0 und WML.

Das Unicode-Consortium hat den Unicode-Standard 4 veröffentlicht. Darin werden über 96.000 Zeichen für die Darstellung von Texten in unterschiedlichsten Sprachen definiert.

Das Unicode-Konsortium aktualisierte den Unicode-Standard und veröffentlichte die Version 4.0 des Zeichenkodierungssystems. Damit umfasst Unicode nun mehr als 96.000 Schriftzeichen, um einen Datenaustausch über Sprachgrenzen hinweg ohne Informationsverlust zu garantieren.

The consultation should also help make clear what effects compulsory standards may have on Government departments, delivery partners and supply chains. Another aim is to gain knowledge on international alignment and cross-border interoperability.

The collection and exchange of biometric data such as fingerprints has been going on for more than a century, but the adoption of digital technology and the increase in the kinds of biometric data being used require standards for implementing these features in applications. The Biometric Conformance Test Software for Data Interchange Formats (BioCTS2012) lets developers, vendors and end users see that the standards have been met, either through in-house testing or through third-party testing laboratories.

“We see business coming into the courts from many different governmental domains, so something could come to us from public safety, child welfare and homeland security — all in the same day,” Burlingame explained in a recent interview with Government Technology.

Shared government data sets present unlimited opportunity, said Yo Yoshida, CEO of the mobile commerce company Appallicious. But to really break open the potential of open data, streamlining and standardizing the data is key.