I am on holiday this week, and almost certainly won’t be able to join the call on Thursday. If you decide to go ahead with the call, I’ll call in if I can – but probably not, so don’t proceed if you think my presence is essential!
I’m not sure that it is though, so here are a few comments which might be helpful.
As you’ll see, the SCF follows the TGF structure of guiding principles, key delivery processes, benefit realisation and CSFs. In the second area, the SCF uses a structure of business management, service management (combining the “customer management” and “channel management” scope of the TGF), and “technology and digital asset management” (similar in scope to the technology management element of TGF, but with more focus on digital information and applications). But it is not just structure: the document also re-uses lots of the detailed TGF content. The document very much takes its lead from the TGF, and explicitly acknowledges its debt to the TGF. This really is a great endorsement of the TC’s work.
That said, as well as tailoring TGF content to suit the needs of cities, there is new material here, reflecting a lot of enthusiastic stakeholder input. Much of it I think helpfully expands on TGF thinking and could usefully be brought back up into the main TGF. (For example, in the treatment of procurement, and open data).
In structural terms, BSI were looking for one stand-alone document, so I have built this around a set of patterns, but with slightly more discursive background within them than in the TGF patterns. Effectively, it is a combination of the TGF primer and the pattern language documents. We’ve discussed this before as something the TC might want to consider for TGF v2 – so now you can judge for yourselves to what extent you think it works.
Anyway, be great to have the TC’s views on it. People are all welcome to feed in formally to BSI’s consultation process as individuals, but I think it would be great also for the TC to put in a collective response.
One issue I’d welcome the group’s view on is this question: If a city followed all the guidance in the SCF to the letter, do we think they would be conforming to all the TGF conformance clauses? That is certainly what I was aiming for, but it would be great to have your view.
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From: tgf@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:tgf@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of John Borras
Sent: 12 August 2013 15:25
To: 'TGF TC List'
Subject: [tgf] FW: CONSULTATION: PAS 181, Smart city framework - Guidance for decision-makers in smart cities and communities
As you can see from below the draft Smart Cities Framework is now out for public comment and a copy is attached. Therefore I would like to go ahead with our TC call on Thursday providing:
1. Oliver - will you be available to provide a conference call number please? Nig is on holiday so we're relying on you.
2. Chris - will you be available to walk us through the document?
I have registered with BSI on behalf of the TC and will provide our agreed response in due course, but of course any of you can register and respond separately on behalf of your own organisation if you wish.
We have another TC call booked for Sept 5th so we have a further opportunity to discuss this and agree our response which may be no more than "very good" although I hope we can be a little more constructive than that. But of course we have said that we would look at this with a view to deciding the format of TGF v2 and that's a much wider issue for us so the more time we can give ourselves to consider that the better.
Providing we can get positive responses from Oliver and Chris then we can proceed with the TC call, otherwise we will have to postpone it. For those of you on holiday or otherwise engaged on Thursday please review the document and share your thoughts on the TC list before the call on Sept 5th please.
John
From: Lucy Moore [mailto:Lucy.Moore@bsigroup.com]
Sent: 12 August 2013 12:38
Subject: CONSULTATION: PAS 181, Smart city framework - Guidance for decision-makers in smart cities and communities
Dear Sir/Madam,
BSI would like to invite you and your organization to comment on the following draft during its six-week consultation period, which is now available:
PAS 181, Smart city framework – Guidance for decision-makers in smart cities and communities
A PAS (Publicly Available Specification) is a sponsored, fast-track, consensus-building informal standard that is produced by the UK national standards body, BSI Standards Limited. The development of PAS 181 has been sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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The closing date for consultation is 20 September 2013.
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We thank you in advance for your time and help with this project. Your input is highly valued.
With best wishes,
Lucy
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