Fw: OASIS E-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

[John.Borras@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk]

Further information about the workshop
on 13 May.  Please contact Dorris Tai if you have any questions.
Regards,
John

----- Forwarded by John
Borras/e-Envoy/CabinetOffice on 03/05/2004 10:47 -----

"Dorris Tai" <cwtai@cecid.hku.hk>

26/04/2004 12:43

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Subject	RE: OASIS E-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

Dear  All,
 
It's  my pleasure to learn that friends from
overseas will come to HKU for the  OASIS e-Gov TC meeting on May 13.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any  questions regarding
the meeting logistics.
 
Event:  OASIS e-Gov TC Meeting
Date:  13 May 2004 (Thurs)
Time:  10am to 4pm
 
Venue:  The University of Hong Kong, Meng Wah Building
Room 802 (The best way to  get to HKU/Meng Wah Building is by taxi.
You may want to showthe attached document with the venue name
in Chinese to the taxi  driver.)
 
Hotel:  Please review http://www.cecid.hku.hk/forum/hotel.html and
 use the reservation form when you book your hotel.
 
Besides the OASIS eGov TC meeting is taking place at HKU,
OASIS'  Universal Business Language (UBL) TC is holding their
meeting in an  adjacent room from 10-14 May. Furthermore, as John
has mentioned, CECID is  organizing the Forum on e-Business Interoperability
and Standardization in the  afternoon of 14 May (Friday). It's our
pleasure to have John as well as Jon  Bosak (OASIS UBL TC Chair),
David Brock (Auto-ID Labs at MIT) and Hisanao  Sugamata (Japan)
as our speakers. More information about the forum can be found  in
http://www.cecid.hku.hk/forum/aboutforum.html.
 You are most welcome to join the forum (free admission) and the registration
 deadline is 7 May (http://www.cecid.hku.hk/forum/registration.html).
 
Look  forward to meeting you in May.
 
Regards,
Dorris
******************************
Dorris Tai
Business  Manager
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)
Dept. of  Computer Science & Information Systems
The University of Hong  Kong
Tel: +852 2859 2818
Fax: +852 2547 4611
URL:  www.cecid.hku.hk 
-----Original Message-----
From:  John.Borras@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk  [mailto:John.Borras@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk]
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004  11:45 PM
To: adrian.lejins@ato.gov.au; Stonebridge, Brian;
 cou@cht.com.tw; 'Dee Schur'; hollobit@etri.re.kr; junghc@nca.or.kr;
 kclee@ce.cnu.ac.kr; ksh@sookmyung.ac.kr; lamcolin@hk1.ibm.com;  max.voskob@paradise.net.nz;
namjepark@etri.re.kr; ohm@nca.or.kr;  outframe@nca.or.kr; parkbd@nca.or.kr;
rkumar@msi.com.au; shk@mju.ac.kr;  steve.capell@redwahoo.com; ytlee@cecid.hku.hk;
zhangji@harmony.net.cn;  Victor.Pawley@dcita.gov.au; okabe
Cc:  Suzanne.Daniels@e-Envoy.gsi.gov.uk; Dorris
Tai;  egov@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: OASIS E-GOV TECHNICAL  COMMITTEE
PARTICIPATION



Dear All 

I am now able to  confirm the arrangements for the
workshop in Hong Kong on 13 May.  

The workshop will be held at the Hong  Kong University
(exact room number to be confirmed) and will run from 10.00 am  until
16.00.pm.   

Agenda 
The provisional  agenda is as follows:


1.   Welcome and Introductions

2.   The work of the OASIS e-Gov Technical Committee
- John Borras  
3.   Round Table - presentations/briefs  on
e-Gov initiatives by participants 
4.   Constituting an Asia/Pacific Sub-Committee

        -  terms of  reference

         -  officials

         -  working arrangements

        -   liaisons with main
TC  
5.  Any Other Business  

You will see from this agenda that I  would like
participants to share with the group their current e-Gov  activities,
and this can be by use of slides or just verbal presentations.   I
will also be looking for volunteers to run the sub-committee so would  you
consider your availability and interest in that before the day  please.


Hotels  
Below are details of hotel accommodation that  have
been provided by Dorris Tai.  If you require any further help in  this
respect please contact her direct. 
  
All  hotels are  close to the HKU campus as
well as to the downtown area. They  are 4-star hotels and  take
less than 15 minutes   ( taxi ride about HK$20 to HK$30) from
the hotel to HKU  or to downtown. 

1) Bishop  Lei International House

http://www.bishopleihtl.com.hk

** Closest to the  popular bar/restaurant area, Lan
Kwai Fong (http://www.lankwaifong.com/)
  
   
2) Island Pacific Hotel Hong  Kong

http://www.islandpacifichotel.com.hk
  
  
3) Novotel Century Harbourview     

http://www.accorhotels-asia.com/hotelsearch/default.asp?hc=3564
 
Hotel shuttle bus schedule http://www.century-harbour-hotel.com/Info/City%20Shuttle%20Schedule%20(Apr%202003).doc
 
Hotel map http://www.century-harbour-hotel.com/Info/map.jpg
 
  
The best way to get to the above hotels from HK International
Airport  is to take the Airport Express Train (HK$100 one-way or HK$180
return) from  the airport to Hong Kong Station (in Central) and then
take a taxi (a 10-20  minutes ride). 
  
Adjacent Event 
We are holding this workshop adjacent to another event
at the  University.  This is a  Forum on E-Commerce Interoperability
and  Standardization being held on the afternoon of Friday 14th May
at which Jon  Bosak, chair of the OASIS UBL TC, and myself will be
presenting. so you may  wish to stay on for that event.  Again
Dorris can provide more  information about this event.


Invitation to Others 
Several of you I know have already spoken to other contacts
about this  workshop, so will you please use this e-mail as the official
invitation from  me to those persons.   For the purposes of this
workshop, I am content  for non-OASIS members to attend, but would
stress that only OASIS members will  be eligible to participate in
the sub-committee once constituted.  

Further Information  
I would appreciate confirmation from you of  those
attending so we can sort the logistics for the day and catering  etc.

If you require any further  details then please contact
either Dorris Tai at the HK University or  me.


I look forward to meeting many  of you in Hong Kong
on the 13th. 

Best regards 

John  Borras 
Chair e-Gov TC

John  Borras/e-Envoy/CabinetOffice  

22/03/2004 08:30

To	"Stonebridge, Brian"  <Brian.Stonebridge@dcita.gov.au>, cou@cht.com.tw,  greg.sloane@paradise.net.nz, hollobit@etri.re.kr,  junghc@nca.or.kr, kclee@ce.cnu.ac.kr, ksh@sookmyung.ac.kr,  lamcolin@hk1.ibm.com, max.voskob@paradise.net.nz,  namjepark@etri.re.kr, ohm@nca.or.kr, outframe@nca.or.kr,  parkbd@nca.or.kr, rkumar@msi.com.au, shk@mju.ac.kr,  steve.capell@redwahoo.com, ytlee@cecid.hku.hk,  zhangji@harmony.net.cn, adrian.lejins@ato.gov.au
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Subject	Re: OASIS E-GOV  TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PARTICIPATIONLink

Apologies for the delay in following up on my original
 request below.  However at long last I have found an opportunity
for us  to meet and discuss how we might create a Regional sub-committee.
   Thanks to Thomas Lee, I have been invited to talk at a Forum
on E-Business  Interoperability and Standardization in Hong Kong on
14th May.  An  announcement about the Forum will be made shortly
and I'm sure Dorris Tai will  let you all have the details in due
course.   

 I would therefore like to hold a workshop on 13th
 May to organise our sub-committee.  I would envisage a whole
day session  during which we can share experiences of what each of
us is doing, I can  update you on the work of the TC and we can then
agree how to form and take  forward a regional sub-committee.


Could you please give me an early indication of whether
you will be  able to attend so that I can finalise arrangements.  Also
if other TC  members have colleagues in the Far East or the Antipodes
who might be  interested, please pass on this invite. 

Regards, 
John

John  Borras/e-Envoy/CabinetOffice  

24/12/2003 13:42

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Subject	OASIS E-GOV TECHNICAL  COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

I am conscious that the way we currently run the TC  does
not allow you all to participate very easily.  Not least because of
 the differences in time zones and the difficulty of finding a convenient
time  for you to join in meetings.   But our work has to be international
not  just confined to Europe and North America, so to overcome this
I have in mind  to set up a Regional sub-committee, covering the Far
East,  Australia and  New Zealand so that people from that part
of the world can get together and  better participate in the work
of the TC.   I don't want to end up with  two separate committees
so we will need to sort out the logistics of how we do  the joining
up. 

I'd be very  interested to hear from your thoughts
on this idea and if we set up a  sub-committee whether you would actively
participate in it.    For  other members of the TC, particularly
those from the international  organisations, if you have contacts
in that part of the world perhaps you  could pass this message on
to see if there is further interest.  

If I get a positive response then I would  be prepared
to come to an initial meeting of the sub-committee in late Spring  or
early Summer to sort out arrangements  Perhaps we could look to a
 session running in parallel with a conference or other international
event  which might provide hosting facilities for the meeting.  Suggestions
on  events and locations would be welcomed. 

Regards, 

John Borras  
Chair  e-Gov TC  
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