[GSDI Legal Econ] [SDI-Europe] eGovernment InteroperabilityCampus 2007

[Francis Harvey]

Maybe, if we follow Don Norman's thinking on infrastructure, eGov  
folk seeing SDI as a tool means it's been successful?

I'm not sure myself, but I think SDI's problems have more successful  
work-arounds than problems with e-procurement or social service  
access. Certainly the day-to-day activities in these domains are  
followed closely by the politicians and media.

Of course there are still SDI problems to resolve. Thames Water's  
problems seem partially related to SDI, but mainly just a matter of  
finding, fixing and avoiding leaks. An SDI should help with that, but  
is it necessary?

Francis

On 9 Mar 2007, at 10:10, Roger Longhorn wrote:

> In my SDI consulting experience, and also simply from watching how  
> the eGovernment and SDI initiatives developed in a few EU countries  
> over the past several years, the disconnect starts at the point  
> where quite often two completely different groups of people or  
> organisations are involved in developing the eGov work and the SDI  
> (if any).
>
> The primary eGov folk often first see "SDI" presented to them via  
> the GI/GIS community, national mapping agencies, etc. They see this  
> "SDI thing" as a tool, not as an infrastructure - if they recognise  
> it all. Even in the UK, where there was a GIS advisor in the eGov  
> unit developing the UK's eGovernment initiatives, standards,  
> interoperabilty framework, etc. - the early SDI components, such as  
> the GIgateway (the national GI portal) and the metadata on which it  
> was based, were not compatible with the eGov equivalents. This led  
> many in government to satisfy their eGov "information asset  
> register" requirement but not the spatial info requirements. Also,  
> when the same datasets are classified as "eGov" for one purpose and  
> then "geospatial/SDI" for another, do we really think that the  
> people in the government departments will have the time or  
> resources to fulfill two sets of sometimes competing requirements.  
> I think not and current experience seems to prove that.
>
> Roger Longhorn
> ral at alum.mit.edu
>
> Walter de Vries wrote:
>
>> Roger,
>>
>> I'm glad you have noticed this too. I've been going through many
>> articles in egov and egov-related conference proceedings and found  
>> very
>> little reference to spatial data infrastructures, let alone any  
>> special
>> sessions, clusters or tracks. If fact, I was aiming to report on that
>> during  digital governance conference in May of this year. In  
>> fact, the
>> same applies to most egov related policies on a global scale. I am  
>> yet
>> to find any specific reference to the spatial part of  
>> infrastructures in
>> any general national egov policy. This can mean two things: either  
>> the
>> SDI is not really an issue in the egov community - where increasingly
>> most of the focus seems to be completely different issues like
>> edemocracy, eparticipation - or there are hardly any SDI  
>> researchers /
>> paper submissions on these egov conferences.
>>
>> Walter de Vries
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: legal-econ-bounces at lists.gsdi.org
>> [mailto:legal-econ-bounces at lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of Roger  
>> Longhorn
>> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:49 AM
>> To: SDI-Europe; GSDI Legal-Economic Work Grouup; AESI-align at i- 
>> dra.co.uk;
>> EGIP
>> Cc: Christopher Corbin
>> Subject: Re: [GSDI Legal Econ] [SDI-Europe] eGovernment
>> InteroperabilityCampus 2007
>>
>> Note once again that there is no specific link/topic listed in the
>> "papers wanted" section that would deal with spatial information
>> infrastructures, even though significant volumes of eGovernment  
>> data are
>> also spatial. I say 'also' because for many purposes, the  
>> spatiality is
>> not important, but for others it certainly is. We get back to the  
>> value
>> of the spatial component or attribute of information depending  
>> upon its
>> use for specific reporting/monitoring tasks. There continues to be a
>> lamentable disconnect between many (most?) eGovernment initiatives  
>> and
>> their spatial information counterparts or components.
>>
>> Roger Longhorn
>> ral at alum.mit.edu
>>
>> Kate Lance wrote:
>>
>>
>>> http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP? 
>>> WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=2736&LangI
>>> D=1 <http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP? 
>>> WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=2736&Lang
>>> ID=1> "eGovernment Interoperability Campus 2007"
>>> Paris, France, October 9-11, 2007
>>> Since the late 90's, the European Union and its Member States  
>>> pursue the strategic objective of transforming their Public  
>>> Administrations to become more efficient and centered on the  
>>> delivery of ICT-enabled services to citizens and businesses. The  
>>> cornerstone of this strategy is to help developing the framework,  
>>> tools and environment for interoperability between existing  
>>> systems and applications, in order to foster the development of  
>>> public services that would be cross-organisational, cross-level,  
>>> cross-border, transparent, integrated, secure, decentralised and  
>>> available anywhere at anytime.
>>> The main aim of this third eGovINTEROP conference is to create a  
>>> forum
>>>
>>> for discussion between the research community, technology players  
>>> and public institutions. The conference will focus on all aspects  
>>> of interoperability in eGovernement, both from technical as well  
>>> as from semantic, organisational and socio-economic perspectives,  
>>> and will discuss the progress of the various European initiatives  
>>> in the field.
>>> The Campus is expected to gather about 500 participants primarily  
>>> from
>>>
>>> he European Union.
>>> Conference
>>> The conference is calling for papers to be submitted by _April 6,  
>>> 2007_. Broad topic areas are:
>>>
>>> - Platforms for eGovernment interoperability
>>> - Interoperability frameworks
>>> - Standardisation initiatives in eGovernment
>>> - Security of open eGovernment services
>>> - Transport middleware for government applications
>>> - Managing governmental business processes
>>> - Pan-European Government services
>>> - Local and regional eGovernment services
>>> - Change management in networked governments
>>>
>>
>> <ral.vcf>
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