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FW: EIS/EIF NOW AVAILABLE
Thanks Chris for this assessment. Based on what you’ve said then perhaps our selling point to the EU is that our Framework will help translate their “academic” approach into useable guidance? That’s the point I was getting out in my note, how do we sell the added value of the TGF. We will need to develop this line as the work of the TC progresses.
John
From: Chris Parker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 19 December 2010 11:38
To: John Borras; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [tgf] FW: EIS/EIF NOW AVAILABLEJohn
My own view is that the latest EIS/EIF is good news in terms of the agenda which the TC has set out. Firstly, because the EIS/EIF is entirely consistent with the approach we are developing in the TGF. But secondly, because the underlying rationale for the TGF - which is that there is a significant stratgeic gap in guidance to governments in this space - has certainly not been changed because the new EIS/EIF has filled that gap.
To expand of these points a little, I see the EU initiative as consistent, because it recognises that delivering real benefits to citizens from ICT requires interoperability between organisations, and that this is a multi-dimensional problem of which technical interoperability is just one element. The framework of technical/semantic/organisational/legal/political interoperability is a holistic one. The problem though is that it is fairly academic, and difficult to translate into actionable delivery plans at the whole-of-government level. By mapping the EU framework against key service delivery areas (business management, customer management, channel manageent etc), our Policy Framework helps give a much clearer view of what is actually needed. And then by pulling together best practices on business model, delivery planning and so on, the TGF should help governments move more rapidly and effectively towards implementation.
Chris Parker
Managing Partner, CS Transform Ltd, +44 7951 754 060
From: John Borras [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17 December 2010 16:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: [tgf] FW: EIS/EIF NOW AVAILABLEI’ve taken a closer look at these documents now and I think the major impact for the TC is as follows:
How do we align our Framework with the EIS/EIF, and vice-versa, without compromising the objectives of the TC? We have to remember that the EIS/EIF is about interoperability of European government services and that quite clearly is not a universal requirement and is not the whole breadth of the proposed TGF. The task for us as I see will be to show how our Framework can be mapped to the EIS/EIF and what added value it could bring by the adoption of its wider focus.
We have of course already opened the door on the TGF with the ISA Programme leadership and have an on-going action to pursue that discussion so the opportunity is there for us once we have got some reasonably stable material.
I would welcome other views on the impact of these documents on our work.
John
From: John Borras [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 16 December 2010 12:22
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: EIS/EIF NOW AVAILABLEThe European Commission has today released its European Information Strategy and version 2 of its Interoperability Framework. Both are available at http://ec.europa.eu/isa/strategy/index_en.htm .
We will need to take these into consideration in our work.
Regards
John Borras
Chair OASIS TGF Technical Committee
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