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Subject: RE: [tgf] RE: TC SATISFACTION SURVEY
It’s
darn hard, is my first answer. I
know that, up to a point, the market will come to the work, and whatever we do
to force that timing forward, we will be pushing against a partly closed door. One
of the challenges I find, is that most folks doing Cloud or doing Identity,
don’t see the market opportunity by pushing their wares in the government
transformation space. And visa versa. The
other issue is that there is no clear and obvious ‘government transformation
space’ yet, but please correct me if I’m wrong. Governments
are as siloed on an inter government level (when you get beyond national
security, defence and law enforcement where there is both a mutual incentive
and high level/political mindshare) as they are intra-government. However,
my now well known cynicism took a hit a few weeks ago when I learned from
Malcolm Crompton in Australia (not our own privacy folks of course!) that
APEC’s Privacy Framework has just agreed the Corporate Binding Privacy
Rules for multi-jurisdictional governance of privacy (harmonisation) across the
member countries. This was a volunteer effort of APEC nations both gov
and private sector organisations, that goes to show that even without the
threat of national security, defence etc, if there is enough motivation and
volunteer effort to make it happen, you can achieve things. Which
brings me to the nub of the issue..getting the mindshare high up in government
where defence and national security sit right now.. Cheers Colin From: tgf@lists.oasis-open.org
[mailto:tgf@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of John Borras I’m sorry we
didn’t have the time to discuss this on our call yesterday and I’ll
ensure we make time for it on the next call. In the meantime it would be
good to get some views from you on how to go about meeting these
issues. And just to remind you we did agree on our previous call
that the priority at this stage should be on outreach rather than on producing
further products, so dealing with these comments now is very timely. For the last point
about clearer objectives, as I said on the call if the person who made that
comment would like to elaborate on it either with the whole TC or just with me,
then we can hopefully work out a solution to the problem. It
doesn’t sound like it’s a real showstopper, perhaps just more
explanation required in some of our documentation. The first and second
points I think are closely related and we should be able to tackle both through
the same solution. Now that we have base-lined versions of the Primer and
the Pattern Language, plus the emerging Policy Products document, we are in a
much better position to reach out and sell the messages.
A quick and easy way is to host a Webinar or series of Webinars. OASIS
does a lot of these and generally they go down well albeit only attracting
small audiences. So I propose that we do one or more of those but
do not rely on it as the only solution to the problems. We need to
supplement the webinars with other events, such as the breakfast session we
held in Brussels last year. But of course that sort of event will cost
money and again any one event will only reach a relatively small audience in
any particular region, unless we can run a series of them in different parts of
the world. Another angle we
could try is working with other Organisations to promote our message, like we
are doing with ERIS@ here in Europe. Perhaps a follow up to the launch
event we held with the World Bank might be something we could
attempt. We have tried a
number of times to get papers or articles published with no real success so I
do not feel we should put too much effort into that route in future. To take any of this
forward we will need a few volunteers to help prepare the outreach material,
host some of the events and use their communication networks to help
promote our activities. Whilst OASIS has a very good communications network, it
does not necessarily have access to our target audience of senior bodies in
Government organisations and consultancy houses. Can I hear from
any of you who are willing and able to assist with any of this and also any
other ideas that you think we should pursue. It would be good if we
could put together a package for approval on the next TC call. John From: John Borras [mailto:johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk]
I have just received the results of the
recent TC Satisfaction Survey for our TC and thanks to those of you who took
time to respond. There are some comments made in the survey that I would
like to follow up on during our next TC call so perhaps you could give it some
thought beforehand. -
-
“Engage in more
educational and promotional activities, such as webinars and seminars” -
“Encourage broader
participation” -
“Develop clearer
objectives for the work products” I would stress that this is not a witch
hunt by me for those who have made the comments, I’m just trying to use
them as positive inputs to the future work of the TC. Regards John Borras Chair OASIS TGF
Technical Committee m. +(0)44 7976 157745 Skype: gov3john www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tgf
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