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  • Smart City Standards are Key to Unlocking the Full Potential of Smart Cities Technologies

    Since the emergence of smart cities, the promise of interoperability and connected sensors has been difficult to attain in practice as cities suffer from vendor lock-in and incompatible devices. ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, has found that smart city standards are the key to unlocking the full potential of smart cities technologies.

    “Smart Cities technologies are advertised as able to collect data and insights into how a city is functioning through a variety of means such as weather monitoring, utilities monitoring etc. However, there are issues with vendor lock-in and a lack of interoperability between devices, which means that the full benefit of smart cities technology is not realized,” explains Lindsey Vest, Smart Cities and Smart Spaces Research Analyst at ABI Research.

  • South Africa: Shuttleworth Foundation Lauds Govt's IT Standards

    The Mark Shuttleworth Foundation congratulated government for its world-class set of Information Technology (IT) standards, in a statement sent to the Minister for the Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.

    The statement recognised the standards related to the Minimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems (MIOS) in government.

    According to the MIOS document, the standards set out government's technical principles and standards for achieving inter-operability and information systems coherence across the public sector.

  • South Korea to develop e-Government standard framework for a cloud-enabled environment

    The Ministry of Security and Public Administration (MOSPA) revealed last week that it is currently engaged in several collaborative initiatives, with the National Information Society Agency, to develop an e-Government standard framework for a cloud-enabled environment.

    The e-Government Standard Framework is an infrastructure environment for implementing various e-government applications. It aims to increase the quality of e-Government services, the efficiency of IT investment and the standardisation and the reusability of applications through establishing and applying an accepted development framework standard.

  • Standard for Web-based digital signatures completed

    A standard to enable digital signing of electronic documents via a Web application has been finalized by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

    Digital Signature Services Version 1.0 (DSS), approved by OASIS this month, defines an Extensible Markup Language interface to process digital signatures for Web services and other applications without complex client software. The Web-based scheme should simplify the creation and verification of digital signatures and could improve security by centralizing storage and management of cryptographic signing keys.

  • Standards for e-procurement - UK Government trial

    Assessment trials between government departments are underway to find the most effective way to allow computers running different purchasing software packages to talk to each other, helping suppliers to do business with the Government on-line.

  • Standards lacking in Vietnam's e-government initiative

    Lack of a central strategy and agencies investing in different, often conflicting, IT tools are hindering Vietnam's efforts to develop an effective e-government system.

    The absence of a common strategy and IT standards within Vietnam's government agencies is hampering its efforts to develop an effective e-government.

  • TALQ Certification Globally Recognized as Standard for Smart City Applications

    The TALQ Consortium counts 66 members from 24 countries

    The TALQ Consortium, which developed the Smart City Protocol, a global interface standard for smart city applications, continues to ensure benefits for cities worldwide through a rigorous certification process. An increasing number of cities and utilities now require TALQ Certification in their public tenders to guarantee interoperability between systems from different vendors. Currently, there are 58 TALQ-certified products from 39 manufacturers available. The consortium's steady growth—now consisting of 66 member companies from 24 countries—along with the ongoing evolution of the protocol, highlights its commitment to advancing smart city solutions and promoting global standards.

  • Three Chinese Ministries Promote UOF Office Software

    The International Department of the Central Committee of CPC, the Ministry of Commerce of China, and the State Archives Administration of China have started to promote the Chinese-made Uniform Office Format standard, and it will be promoted in at least six ministries in China before the end of 2008.

    UOF is a standard document format for the new generation of China's office-related software and it uses XML contained in a compressed file container. It competes with the OpenDocument format, which was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

  • UAE Federal eGovernment releases standards and policies

    The UAE Federal eGovernment Steering Committee approved the eGovernment Service Enablement Policy today. This is the first in a series of policies and standards to be developed for the Federal eGovernment under its 'Policies, Standards and Procedures Project'.

    Dr. Mohammad Emir Mavani, Federal e-Government Programme Director at MoFI said, ' This policy facilitates and streamlines the initiation of new services by various ministries and departments under eGovernment initiative. Service initiation is the most critical and important step in the lifecycle of enablement of any government eService. Ministries have to identify and specify the service that they propose to offer through e-channel and think through its benefits and delivery mechanisms for users. If a proper process is followed at the initiation stage, the implementation and roll-out of the service becomes easy and the resulting service is successful in terms of its high quality and usefulness to community.'

  • UAE: Dubai eGovernment secures ISO 9001:2000 certification for the second year in a row

    Dubai eGovernment has recently announced that it has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification for the second consecutive year, highlighting its consistency in promoting quality and high standards across all levels of its operations.

    The certification reflects Dubai eGovernment's successful strategy in improving the delivery of services to the public through its wide range of electronic platforms and solutions.

  • UAE: Dubai eGovernment to conduct usability audits to ensure uniform standards

    Dubai eGovernment is to carry out usability audit of government departments' websites that are integrated with the Dubai eGovernment portal to ensure they continue to have uniform standards as set by Dubai eGovernment.

    Usability auditing refers to the total professional analysis of a website from both technical and users' point of view, keeping Dubai eGovernment's guidelines as the yardstick.

  • UAE: Emirates of Abu Dhabi set to standardize government information technology

    IT Standards to improve information sharing and integration across Government Entities and bring numerous benefits to delivery of Government services

    The Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Committee (ADSIC), established to drive the transformation and modernization of government services in Abu Dhabi, today issued a set of extensive and comprehensive Information Technology (IT) Architecture & Standards Reference Manuals to Abu Dhabi Government Entities. These Reference Manuals, the first of their kind in the UAE, provide the guidelines, requirements, facilities and constraints necessary for uniform development and maintenance of government services.

  • UAE: One for all

    Dubai eGovernment has signed a new contract which aims to make Adobe's popular PDF format the de-facto standard for electronic documents.

    In the race to become the region's foremost provider of electronic services for citizens and enterprises, Dubai eGovernment aims to extend its already formidable lead with an ambitious new initiative, the e-Permits system.

  • UAE: Standards and policies

    Dr. Mohammad Emir Mavani, Federal e-Government programme director at MoFI, says the move facilitates and streamlines the initiation of new services by various ministries and departments.

    “Service initiation is the most critical and important step in the lifecycle of enablement of any government eService, ministries have to identify and specify the service they propose to offer through e-channel and think through its benefits and delivery mechanisms for users. If a proper process is followed at the initiation stage, the implementation and roll-out of the service becomes easy and the resulting service is successful in terms of its high quality and usefulness to community,“ he explains.

  • UK: Cabinet Office relinquishes XML responsibility

    Responsibility for the management of the standards pertaining to the government's preferred document format has been given to the Local e-Government Standards Body

    The Cabinet Office e-Government Unit (eGU) announced on 23 March, 2005 that it would hand over the management of the XML schemas to the Local e-Government Standards Body (e-SB) on 1 April, 2005.

  • UK: Council standard earns seal of approval

    Local authorities now have a new standard to measure their service delivery

    The National project responsible for local e-government standards has approved a list that defines all local authority services.

    The Local e-Government Standards Body (LeGSB) has ratified the esd-toolkit's Local Government Services List (LGSL), which councils have informally been using for the last three years.

  • UK: eService standards on the table

    The National eService Delivery Standards (NeSDS) programme has launched a consultation on the first draft of its document

    The e-standards are being designed to provide guidance for local authority heads of service in meeting their obligations under the Priority Service Outcome deadlines. They will set out a series of definitions in each service area based on the performance level targets and complement the work recently set out in the Government Connect Framework Prospectus for joining up government.

  • UK: Government launches public-sector security product accreditation scheme

    The first security product accredited by a new government scheme to ensure products are reliable for the public sector has been announced.

    Jim Murphy, Cabinet Office minister with responsibility for e-government, launched the quality award scheme this week after a trial.

    BeCrypt is the first company to be accredited under the scheme for its Connect Protect encryption product.

  • UK: Havering launches the delivery

    The London borough has unveiled the programme for benchmarking e-service standards

    Stephen Evans, chief executive of LB Havering, launched the National eService Delivery Standards (NeSDS), one of the National Projects for local e-government, on 18 May 2005.

  • UK: Hot Topic: The National e-Service Delivery Standards Programme

    The mission

    The NeSDS (National e-Service Delivery Standards) project is being funded by ODPM to deliver a range of e-service delivery standards to help Local Authorities provide efficient and consistent levels of service to their customers.

    This will bring real working benefits to Local Authority departments and officers in light of the Priority Service Outcome deadlines and Gershon efficiency requirements.

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