Greek Interoperability Days in July 2009

The Greek IC organized the second Interoperability days event in July 2009, where prominent researchers and practitioners had the opportunity to address a selected audience of GIC researchers and members of GIC community in Greece. Prof. M.Janssen (TU Delft), Dr. M. Missikof (IASI-CNR, IT), Prof. R. Goncalves (UNINOVA, PT) and D. Osimo (Tech4i2) delivered several days of academic presentations, case descriptions and organized workshops targeting highly innovative approaches for semantic interoperability, Web 2.0, Future Internet infrastructures and B2B interoperability.

David Osimo (Tech4i2) in a Web 2.0 Workshop in GIC premises, Athens

Semantics Week in the Netherlands

Heading off to Amsterdam, where on Monday and Tuesday 22-23 June 2009 I will deliver a speech to the "Semantic Week" organised by fellow researchers and projects. In parallel to the semantic week, the ICE Conference in Leiden, with important events on Interoperability.

Seamless Security in 4th Regional Security Forum

The 4th Regional Electronic Security Forum was held on 6th and 7th November 2008, at Thessaloniki, Greece. Organised by INA Telecommunication Academy, the conference brought together experts and governmental officials from Greece and neighboring countries.

The main topic of the conference was electronic governance security. Prof. Gritzalis from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) chaired the session on eGovernment Security, presenting the recent recommendations of the Security Committee of the Greek eGovernment Forum. Yannis Charalabidis presented a new idea on "Seamless Security" - the way to make digital public services secure and user-fiendly. Ray Nightingale from the Global Trust Centre gave new ways for achieving trust and security in eGovernance.

"Seamless Security" is emerging as a need, as more and more measures are affecting and generating significant costs for the final users. Through the eGOVSIM tool (a simulator for eGovernment Services from NTUA), important indicators on security burdens have been calculated and showcased. The model shows that, over the next 30 years, a typical, employed, ICT user - citizen will: –Obtain 100 different sets of authentication credentials, mostly electronic –Sign 10,000 times, on different documents, currently mostly manually – gradually shifting to electronically – Use his/her credentials not less than 100,000 times, mostly by inserting data into systems –Rely on his/her own means for storing, accessing and reproducing documents (more than 1,000 of which will have to be stored, many of which in paper) More on the presentation can be found here: http://www.inatelecom.org/

Greek Interoperability Centre wins the first prize in eGOV 2008

Members of the Greek Interoperabilty Centre were awarded the first prize in this year’s International Conference on Electronic Government (DEXA – eGOV), that was held on September 3-6, in Torino, Italy. The prize for the most compelling, critical research reflection 2008-2009 was awarded to the paper “Paving the way to eGovernment Transformation: Interoperability Registry Infrastructure Development”, by Aikaterini-Maria Sourouni, Fenareti Lampathaki, Spiros Mouzakitis, Yannis Charalabidis and Dimitris Askounis, which presented a novel approach for developing Governmental Service Registries.

New Book on Interoperability from IGI Global – Call for Chapters

IGI Global (formerly IDEA Group Inc.) announces the Call for Chapter proposals for the new book “Interoperability in Digital Public Services and Administration: Bridging E-Government and E-Business”, edited by Yannis Charalabidis from National Technical University of Athens. Brief chapter proposals are welcome by December 15, 2008. More information on this publication and the Call for Chapters can be found at http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=506