OASIS eGovernment Member Section
Work Programme

Vision
To be a thought-leadership forum for all public services’ stakeholders focussing on stimulating more inclusive, citizen-centred and shared solutions for Government in the digital age.

Mission
To engage in a series of discussions and activities about the future of Government services and their delivery; to identify and promote new opportunities for governments to improve their efficiency and cost base through the use of emerging new technologies and business practices; to examine and strengthen the processes of government decision-making that determine how technology-supported services are conceived, developed, procured, delivered and managed.

Part 1:  Two Year Strategy

Goal 1 – create a platform for a series of activities focused on promoting the need for the transformation of governments’ service delivery.

This will be done by a variety of techniques involving both virtual and face to face sessions as follows:

1.1  Webinars to promote transformational government and demonstrate particular techniques and use cases;

1.2  Discussion Groups on the evolution of new solutions and techniques for the delivery of public services;

1.3  Workshops on leveraging solutions for particular sectors of government business;

1.4  Leadership Summits to promote high-level discussion among policy makers and senior business partners about trends and priorities in business practices and technology.

Goal 2 – provide advice and guidance that could add value by focusing on use cases and specific requirements at different jurisdictions of public administration in countries from varying levels of economic and technological development. 

This will be done by: 
2.1  identifying and researching new aspects of transformational government which can be fed into the work of the Transformational Government Framework TC or be used to establish new TCs;
2.2  developing guidelines to identify points at which new standards may need to be developed and demonstrate how various ways of implementing existing standards could accelerate the service delivery maturity process;

2.3  promoting genuine solutions to common problems being discussed within the public sector community.

2.4   using the eGovMS Library to host and reference guidelines, use cases and other White Papers.

Goal 3 – promote interoperability and the implementation of open standards for transformational government.

This will be done by:

3.1  identifying relationships and dependencies between relevant standards and across standards organizations as a method of improving efficiency in the development of technology solutions across government;

3.2  providing input from a government perspective to the work of other OASIS Member Sections and Technical Committees;

3.3  developing cooperation with other relevant standards groups, such as but not exclusively UN/CEFACT, Kantara Initiative, CEN, ETSI, ITU, ISO and W3C, to promote interoperability;

3.4  engaging closely with global institutions, for example but not exclusively the European Commission, the World Customs Organisation, the World Bank, OECD and APEC as well as the widest possible range of governments at national/federal, regional and local jurisdictions, and offering input and guidance to those organizations on the role that standards play in their future technology strategy;

3.5  contribute to the OECD’s development of Internet-related policies by providing technically focused policy formulation for the Internet economy, primarily focused Communications and Infrastructure Services, Information Economy and Security and Privacy;

3.6  using the eGovMS list server to share experiences amongst the membership.

Part 2:  Action plan 2012/13

Action No | Goal¹ | Action | StC Coordinator² | Target Date

1.

1.3

Co-sponsor a one day follow-up workshop on the Convergence of Practices in respect of Emergency Alerting.

JB

Geneva
Spring 2013
(prov)

2.

1.3

Co-Sponsor the International Cloud Symposium 2012

JB

Washington DC
Oct 2012

3.

2.1

Monitor  progress of, and promote work of, affiliated TCs:
#1 Transformational Government Framework TC 

#2  Public Cloud Requirements TC

JB

JB

Ongoing

4. | 2.2 | White Paper / Working Document on role of standards and their assessment in the service delivery process | PB | (Draft) October 2012

5.

2.3

Produce White Papers on the following subjects:

#1  Openess – covering open standards, open source, open data, open government.

#2  Joined Up Thinking - the policy and technology pre-requisites for large scale system integration and interoperability.

#3  Governance of government business and ICT change programmes.

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6. | 3.2 | Provide input from a government perspective to the work of other OASIS Member Sections and Technical Committees | JB | Ongoing
7. | 3.3 | Co-ordinate activities with Kantara Initiative | CW | Ongoing
8. | 3.4 | Provide the World Customs Organisation with advice/guidance in accordance with MOU | MK | Ongoing
9. | 3.4 | Maintain close liaison with European Commission over their Digital Agenda. | PB | Ongoing

10.

3.4

Identify speaking opportunities at conferences and the like to promote the eGov MS and transformational government:

#1 OECD Foresight Forum on Big Data Analytics in Paris Oct 2012.

JB

GJ

Ongoing

11. | 3.4 | Create a list of TG programmes across the world's jurisdictions and appoint TC members' as the liaison/contact to monitor the programmes. | JB | September 2012
12. | 3.5 | Provide technically focused policy advice to the OECD’s Working Parties on Security and Privacy | GJ | Ongoing

Notes:
1.	See Two Year Strategy Goals

2.	Steering Committee member: 
JB = John Borras
PB = Peter Brown
HJvB = Harm Jan van Burg
KD = Kenneth Dagg
GJ = Gershon Janssen
MK = Mohammed Kammachi
SM =  Steve Mutkoski
CW = Colin Wallis
tbd = to be determined

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Participants in the OASIS eGov Member Section are invited to propose additional work items to the above Action Plan and to offer to host implementations of the Work Programme.