eGIF aims and associated documentation

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e-Government Unit
UK Government interoperability policy and
standards Maewyn Cumming Assistant Director,
Technology Policy Ankara, March 2005
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Agenda

• e-Government Unit
• e-GIF objectives and scope
• e-GIF policies
• Implementation and compliance issues
• Content - architecture
• Governance, management
• XML

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e-Government Unit Mission To support the
business transformation of government so we can
provide better more efficient public services
Prime Minister, May
2004
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The e-Government Unit

• Works with departments to deliver efficiency
  savings while improving the delivery of public
  services by joining up electronic government
  services.
• Provides sponsorship of Information Assurance.

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The CIO Agenda

• Stimulate joined-up, business-led IT strategies
  and policies
• Support citizen-centred public service reform
• Enable corporate services transformation
• Become IT change agent
• Sponsor cost-effective IT security
• Increase IT-enabled change capability / capacity
• Build partnerships with IT suppliers
• Improve external IT image and confidence

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The CIO Agenda key elements

• Enable corporate services transformation
• Support HR and finance change agents in
• process lt-----gt IT platform design
• Drive consistent HR / Finance IT platform
  configurations
• Become IT change agent
• GSI
• Benchmarks
• Interoperability Standards
• Supplier intelligence
• Public, private best practice

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50-100 People
CIO Organisation
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e-Government Business Drivers

• People want to interact with government on their
  own terms.
• They want high quality services which are
  accessible, convenient and secure.
• They do not want to understand how government is
  organised, which department or agency does what,
  or whether a function is exercised by central or
  local government.
• Governments worldwide are now developing and
  implementing strategies to
• deliver services on-line to citizens and
  businesses support the modernisation of
  government
• automate the exchange of data between
  governments

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e-Government Technical Drivers

• IT provides a real opportunity to create
  fundamental improvement in the efficiency,
  convenience and quality of services.
• Technical policies and specifications are
  essential for achieving interoperability and
  information systems coherence across the public
  sector.
• Most governments now plan to adopt the Internet
  and World Wide Web specifications for all their
  systems, and to use XML and XSL as the core
  standards for data integration and the
  presentation of data.

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Why e-GIF?

• Joined-up Government needs joined-up information
  systems
• e-GIF sets out the governments policy and
  standards for interoperability across the public
  sector
• Focuses on 5 aspects
• Interconnectivity
• Data integration
• Access
• Content management
• Business Domains

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e-GIF scope

• The entire UK public sector
• Central government
• NHS
• Police and Courts
• Local authorities

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e-GIF scope

• The exchange of information between government
  systems, and the interactions between
• UK Government and citizens
• UK Government and intermediaries
• UK Government and businesses (worldwide)
• UK Government organisations
• UK Government and other governments (UK/EC,
  UK/US, etc.).

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e-GIF Headline Decisions

• Use Internet and World Wide Web standards for all
  public sector systems
• Use XML as the key standard for data interchange
• Make the browser the key interface for access and
  manipulation of all information
• Assign metadata to government information
  resources
• Adopts open, international standards that are
  well supported by the market
• Internet based implementation strategy through
  GovTalk website

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e-GIF - Implementation

• e-GIF is mandated for all UK public sector
  systems
• e-GIF Compliance Assessment Service
• Operated by NCC on behalf of eGU
• e-GIF Skills Accreditation
• Accreditation scheme to ensure the right
  people are in place

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e-GIF certification and accreditation

• Reduces risk to public sector by ensuring
  contractors or employees have understanding of
  e-GIF issues and policy
• Certification for individuals
• Accreditation for organisations or teams
• Foundation or expert level
• Self financing

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Compliance scheme

• Members only 350
• Provides interactive questionnaire to assess
  level of compliance of each system
• http//www.egifcompliance.org/
• Includes list of suppliers

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Agenda

• E-Government Unit
• e-GIF objectives and scope
• E-GIF policies
• Implementation, compliance
• Content - architecture
• Governance, management
• XML

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Also on Govtalk

• Supporting documentation
• Interactive versions TSC and GCL
• Change control procedures
• Meetings, working groups docs
• Discussion forum
• RFC and RFP
• Other ICT frameworks and policies
• Archive
• www.govtalk.gov.uk

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e-GIF Governance
Senior IT Forum (Industry Government)
CIO Council
Interoperability Working Group
Metadata Working Group
Smart Cards Working Group
Govt Schemas Working Group
External Working Groups
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Metadata Working Group
Technical Working Group
GCL Working Group
Taxonomies Working Group
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Interoperability - European Dimension

• European Interoperability Framework
• Published November 2004
• To support pan-European services
• Considers
• business,
• technical
• semantic interoperability
• http//europa.eu.int

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What is XML?

• A way of making data
• portable reusable
• structured unambiguous
• long lasting valuable
• W3C specification based on SGML (itself an ISO
  Standard) to describe rules for enforcing
  document structure
• separates structure from presentation
• language for defining application-specific
  vocabularies

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Information can consist of 3 things

• Data
• information elements values
• the content"
• Structure
• relationship / location of information
• the markup"
• Presentation
• formatting for easy consumption
• the style"

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XML tells us what" not how"

• XML describes what data "is" not what you want
  done to it
• Separates "structure naming" from "processing
  format"

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Major benefits of XML

• Information is described in a way understood by
  different types of systems
• Documents messages can be exchanged
  regardless of different environments
• Leverages investment in legacy systems
• Data easily reorganized transformed into
  different delivery formats
• Metadata can be included with content
• Re-keying effort errors are reduced
• Business process changes enabled with less
  impact

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Adopting XML schemas for service delivery

• Alternatives
• Use international e-business schemas, eg ebXML,
  XBRL, where appropriate.
• -those adopted are listed in e-GIF
• Write own schemas for specific government
  services, eg tax return filing, passport
  applications
• -using data standard fragments
• -those weve written are available on GovTalk

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Finally

• UKs e-government strategy is about harnessing
  the information revolution to improve the lives
  of our citizens and the performance of UKs
  economy.
• Delivering e-government, building the knowledge
  economy and delivering pervasive access is going
  to require pervasive technologies thats the
  Internet and XML.
• The delivery requires the involvement of,
  acceptance by and partnership with the public and
  private sectors, in the development and
  implementation of the e-GIF.

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Thank You! Any Questions? Maewyn.cumming_at_cabine
t-office.gsi.gov.ukTel no. 020 7276 3101