http://gotzespace.dk/ Blogging eGovernment - from Enterprise Architecture to eDemocracy en-us 2006-05-27T16:22:26+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/05/odf_in_denmark.html [Note: Almost all links here are in Danish] The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation will from 1 September 2006 make its online publications and other written communication available in ODF. That was announced by Minister of Science, Helge... Denmark gotze 2006-05-27T16:22:26+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/05/odf_iso_standard.html It was all over the news last week, but the official word from ISO only just came out: ISO and IEC approve OpenDocument OASIS standard for data interoperability of office applications. A couple of quotes: Alan Bryden, ISO Secretary-General: "ISO/IEC... Openization gotze 2006-05-08T16:22:10+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/04/assertion_of_in.html IDABCs eGovernment Observatory brought this story out in English yesterday: The Danish IT Architecture Committee has decided to stand firm on SAML 2.0 as the recommended standard for federation. Once broken into English, the story was quickly brought around internationally.... Web services gotze 2006-04-27T23:44:14+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/04/harnessing_openness.html The Washington-based Committee for Economic Development (CED), "an independent, nonpartisan organization of business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and... Openization gotze 2006-04-19T02:27:07+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/04/a_motion_a_bill.html Just in case anyone missed the recent news: There are three new cases of policy movement for openization: Denmark, Minnesota and Norway. Denmark Morten Helveg has presented a motion in Parliament (Danish version, dated 30 March, 2006). It says: Parliament... Openization gotze 2006-04-09T23:47:20+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/04/successful_ente.html Vibeke Trolle Hansen has published her Master of IT thesis, Enterprise Architecture - how to establish and sustain a successful EA (3MB PDF). Abstract Enterprise architecture aims to establish business and IT alignment. EA is often applied to ensure a... Enterprise Architecture gotze 2006-04-07T12:23:43+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/03/danmark_20.html I am very pleased to announce a new blog: Danmark 2.0 (RSS) I'm now a resident blogger for: [Ingeniøren, Engineering Weekly, is Denmark’s leading publication in the fields of science and technology providing high quality and objective information on a... Denmark gotze 2006-03-22T01:46:15+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/03/ea_fellows.html I'm proud to be one of the founders of EA Fellows, a Danish think-tank offering enterprise architecture consulting services. I've teamed up with fellow bootstrappers Allan Bo Rasmussen (Zebranet), Bo Møller (i360 ConceptLab) and Tommy Pedersen (SimMark), and we have... Enterprise Architecture gotze 2006-03-18T12:46:45+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/03/days_of_opennes.html Linuxforum 2006 here in Copenhagen was great. There's a report at Groklaw. In my view, the highlight was Simon Phipps' presentation. My favorite quote: "If you don't join the network, you don't get the effects". It's exactly the network effects... Openization gotze 2006-03-06T17:39:26+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/02/my_bookshop.html Several years ago, I created Gotzemazon, an Amazon-WS-driven shop. People out there are actually using it (thank you!), so I thought it was time to refresh it a bit. I see some opportunities in thematic bookshops, for example an EA... Web services gotze 2006-02-21T01:04:33+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/02/an_afternoon_wi.html Peter Quinn, the former state CIO of Massachusetts, is on a European speaking tour. Today he spoke in Copenhagen at a public meeting arranged by Prosa. He gave a great presentation (similar to this presentation from last week) about the... Openization gotze 2006-02-20T00:40:35+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/02/xformsajaxodf.html James Governor: Is XForms the killer app for enterprise AJAX? Bob Sutor: The pieces are falling into place XForms and AJAX - of course. And ODFand web service are not unrelated at all. It's when used together these standards become... Openization gotze 2006-02-10T02:08:12+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/01/aea_denmark.html I have established a local Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA) together with my good friend and ex-colleague, Kristian Hjort-Madsen, who serves as a|EA's international secretary. The inaugural meeting of the a|EA Denmark Chapter will take place at... Enterprise Architecture gotze 2006-01-30T12:25:58+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/01/engineering_ope.html . The Danish weekly called Ingeniøren (Engineering Weekly) has on Friday an article, Politisk flertal kræver åbne it-standarder (Political majority requires open standards") by Kurt Westh Nielsen. Kurt of course writes about our conference, and the fact that there was... Openization gotze 2006-01-27T01:27:51+01:00 http://gotzespace.dk/archives/2006/01/on_the_radio.html DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) has an excellent weekly programme called Harddisken (The harddisk). This coming weekend's show will bring a feature about open standards. Jeff Kaplan was interviewed for the show, and I'll be in the studio talking about the... Openization gotze 2006-01-19T12:22:32+01:00