[ossig] [Fwd: [Mossa] UNDP, IBM and Oracle to Help Asia-Pacific Countries Create Strategies and Policies for Adopting Open Computing Standards]

[NP Lee]

FYI

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Subject: 	[Mossa] UNDP, IBM and Oracle to Help Asia-Pacific Countries 
Create Strategies and Policies for Adopting Open Computing Standards
Date: 	Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:30:20 +0800
From: 	Hasannudin Saidin <hasan at my.ibm.com>
To: 	mossa at mail.foss.org.my



*This is certainly exciting news as we move into 2007! About 14 
governments will be involved and Malaysia will surely be able to play an 
active role.*

Press release from UNDP:_
__UNDP, IBM and Oracle to Help Asia-Pacific Countries Create Strategies 
and Policies for Adopting Open Computing Standards_ 
<http://www.apdip.net/projects/gif/launch>_
(__http://www.apdip.net/projects/gif/launch)_

*Excerpt*:

            /BANGKOK, 19 December 2006 - United Nations Development
            Programme (UNDP), IBM and Oracle today announced a joint
            research initiative to help Asia-Pacific countries share and
            create strategies, blueprints and policies for adopting the
            right blend of open standards and technology services. The
            goal will be for more countries to develop universally
            compatible applications and networks to make internal and
            external government services and transactions more
            automatic, affordable and efficient./

            /The UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
            (UNDP-APDIP) will facilitate the development of Government
            Interoperability Frameworks (GIFs). Many countries around
            the world have developed GIFs to guide the development of
            government-wide systems and policies that permit electronic
            transactions and data and information exchange to take place
            seamlessly across agencies and jurisdictions./

            /Today, many e-Government initiatives show that new systems
            are very often developed from scratch at both central and
            local levels. New systems are developed with specifications
            and solutions that match goals and tasks relevant to a
            particular administration, but without adequate attention to
            surrounding government institutions and information and
            communications technology (ICT) systems. The result is a
            patchwork of ICT solutions that are not always compatible
            with each other, reduced efficiency and duplication of effort./

            /UNDP-APDIP, IBM and Oracle, together with the International
            Open Source Network (IOSN), have teamed up to conduct a
            thorough review of how governments in the region and beyond
            are promoting efficient, government-wide sharing of
            information and data by focusing on automatic technology
            services provided by computing networks, rather than
            individual technologies. For instance, this project will
            examine how existing GIFs are focused on a service-oriented
            architecture./

            /The objective is to identify promising practices around
            interoperability, then document case studies of those
            practices in action, and ultimately develop and recommend
            guidelines. Over the next year, UNDP-APDIP will hold
            workshops to share experiences and findings of the project
            with interested groups, and publicly release studies and
            reports at various stages of the project./

_Project description_ <http://www.apdip.net/projects/gif/project>_
(__http://www.apdip.net/projects/gif/project)_

*Excerpt*:

            */Government Interoperability Frameworks: A Project Proposal/*

            /UNDP-APDIP, with support from IBM and Oracle, is proposing
            to implement a project that will:/

                      # /Conduct a review and analysis of whether and
                        how existing GIFs are focused on a
                        service-oriented approach and on open and/or
                        proprietary standards, and identify promising
                        practices on interoperability achieved based on
                        Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) or Open
                        Standards adoption./
                      # /Prepare, publish and promote a “best practice”
                        template/reference document that includes at
                        least three e-government case-study featuring
                        interoperability achieved based on SOA and/or
                        Open Standards from at least three countries
                        participating in this initiative./
                      # /Prepare, in collaboration with the relevant
                        national agency in three Asian countries a draft
                        GIF based on an SOA approach and Open Standards./
                      # /Prepare detailed interoperability
                        implementation guidelines on 2 -3 specific
                        citizen service areas such as National ID, Land
                        Records, Tax etc./


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best wishes.
/nan phin

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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