OASIS is partnering with  the 2010 Belgian Presidency of the European Union (EU) to host a Green I.T. for Green Policy conference on 13-14 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. This conference will be an official event in the EU calendar during the Belgian Presidency and will be hosted at the Belgium Federal Ministry of Finance.  

The eGov Member Section Steering Committee is playing a prominent role in the planning of this conference.

The recording of this Webinar held on 26 May 2010 is now available at http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/

Following full consultations, the Steering Committee of the eGov Member Section has approved the release of a new Guidance Document.  This one covers making the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and provides advice to Governments on the need for removing any barriers from making this transition. For more details, see the Library section of this website.

Peter Brown, OASIS Board Chairman, and the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote technology standards worldwide.  A full report on the signing is available at http://www.wcoomd.org/speeches/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=227 and a copy of the MOU is attached.

The eGov Member Section will take the lead role for OASIS in liaising with the WCO and helping them to address the needs of Customs administrations in emerging areas relating to information technology.

Following full consultations, the Steering Committee of the eGov Member Section has approved the release of two new Guidance Documents.  The first is on the Pitfalls of eGovernment Programmes and the second is about the use of FLOSS by Governments.  For more details, see the Library section of this website.

The Kantara Initiative (KI) and OASIS are pleased to announce that the KI eGov Work Group (WG) and the OASIS eGov Member Section (MS) have established a Liaison relationship.           

A new library of all approved outputs from the eGov Member Section is now available, see Library on the left-hand navigation panel.

The Steering Committee's work plan for 2010 is now available on the new Activities page

The OASIS eGOV MS Steering Committee has approved new procedures whereby members of the Member Section can make proposals to them for new work items to be included in their Work Plan.  The new procedures are now available at:

     http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/egov-ms/document.php?docume...

It is hoped members will take advantage of these new procedures to help prioritise and direct the work of the Steering Committee for the benefit of the whole of the Member Section.

The recording of this Webinar is now available at http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/

OASIS invites you to attend a free, 30-minute webinar providing advice and guidance for the use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) by Governments . The webinar is hosted by the eGov Member Section and will be presented by two members of their Steering Committee, Charles Schulz and John Borras.