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Subject: FW: Inter-Governmental Information Sharing Standards: Meeting March 8
EM-TC Members, Please review the following info that appears to be another opportunity for CAP. Elysa >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Mark Soley [mailto:soley@omg.org] >Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:09 PM >To: soley@omg.org >Subject: Inter-Governmental Information Sharing Standards: Meeting March 8 > >Subject: Inter-Governmental Information Sharing Standards > >As many of you know, the Information Technology and Crisis Management >project chaired by President Martti Ahtisaari (http://www.itcm.org/), the >Object Management Group which I chair (http://www.omg.org/) and the US >Institute of Peace (http://www.usip.org/) have organized a series of events >to study the use of IT in crisis management and response, and how >information technology can better support the requirements of crisis >management and response. Over the last two years of meetings, we have been >looking for a clear use of IT that made a difference in that world, and >could be applied (through recognition and publication of standards and best >practices) to other organizations. Though crisis response was the initial >destination of this journey, I believe that we have identified a much >broader opportunity for IT standardization of best practice: >inter-governmental information sharing. > >A month ago, I had the great pleasure to visit the Organisation for Security >and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to see some of the work they have done to >automate the management of the organization. Their IRMA (ERP and Document >Management systems) and IRMA Dashboard (easy command screen) are >revolutionizing the management of OSCE. Through follow-up discussions with >OSCE and several other governmental and inter-governmental organizations >(and vendors which support them), we have identified a series of prospective >standards of best practices and interfaces that should be developed, based >on OSCE's work and the work of many other IT vendor and user organizations. > >The OSCE Secretary General, Ambassador Jan Kubis has graciously offered to >host an exploratory meeting on March 8, 2005 at their headquarters in >Vienna, Austria. You are cordially invited to join us for this meeting. The >draft agenda is as follows: > > 1. Introduction of participants and their requirements & abilities > 2. Overview of the opportunity (OSCE) > 3. Overview of IT standardization, with details on the OMG >standardization process and history (OMG) > 4. Demonstration of OSCE's IRMA and IRMA Dashboard (OSCE) > 5. General discussion of the opportunity, road-map and likely >first standardization targets > 6. Schedule for plans to begin standardization > >As an immediate follow-up, the OMG will plan a standardization meeting on >this topic during its technical meeting week, April 11-15, 2005 in Athens, >Greece. Since the next meeting of the Crisis Response Executive Advisory >Team (CREATE) is tentatively planned that same week (on Wednesday, April 13, >colocated with the OMG meeting), this will be a perfect venue to begin >specific standardization efforts in the arena of inter-governmental >information sharing. > >I hope that you will strongly consider joining me, Ambassador Kubis and >other interested governmental, non-governmental, inter-governmental and >vendor players at this initial meeting in Vienna. I request that you RSVP >at your earliest convenience by filling out the registration page on the web >at http://www.omg.org/registration/OSCE-2005.htm or by electronic mail or >telephone to Kevin Loughry at +1-781-444 0404 or register@omg.org. > >Best regards, > > -- Richard Soley
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