Title: News and Briefs

Authors: Valentina Trikounaki, Eleni-Revekka Staiou

Addresses: Laboratory for New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, University of Athens, Greece. ' Laboratory for New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, University of Athens, Greece

Abstract: Very brief outlines of four projects are given: the UK red tape challenge, whose purpose is to promote open discussion on which regulations are working, which are not and which need to be simplified or scrapped; a US IT dashboard and techstat toolkit looking at federal IT investments; the EU SEMIRAMIS which defines a pilot infrastructure that provides e-services in line with the required underlying secure authentication and management approach and tests it representing a large number of options related to ID management and secure data transfer; and AlphaGov, a prototype for a single UK government site, open to public testing and using open, agile, multi-disciplinary product development techniques to meet users| needs.

Keywords: UK regulations; United Kingdom; USA; United States; IT projects; information technology; e-services; electronic services; online services; secure authentication; ID management; secure data transfer; information security; e-government; electronic government.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2011.041714

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2011 Vol.4 No.1/2, pp.172 - 174

Published online: 30 Jul 2011 *

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