The

IEEE eGovernment Initiative

Carlos E. Jimenez (@estratic)

Chair. IEEE Technology Management Council Spain

Head of Strategy & New Programs. IEEE Spain

20th September, 2012. Madrid, Spain

IEEE Technical Session

1. What does eGovernment mean?

2. The IEEE Mission

3. The IEEE Vision

4. IEEE Spain, IEEE CS & IEEE TMC Spain

5. The IEEE Strategic Plan

6. eGovernment & IEEE conferences, publications…

7. The strategic relevance of eGovernment

8. The IEEE eGovernment Initiative: mission, fields & process

9. Our Work in Progress…

10. References

What does e-Government (eGov) mean?

“E-Government” refers to the use by government agencies of information

technologies … that have the ability to transform relations with citizens,

businesses, and other arms of government.

Ends: better delivery of government services to citizens, improved

interactions with business and industry, citizen empowerment through access

to information, or more efficient government management…

Benefits: can be less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience,

revenue growth, and/or cost reductions…

e-Gov aims: to make the interaction between government and citizens (G2C),

government and business enterprises (G2B), and inter-agency relationships

(G2G) more friendly, convenient, transparent, and inexpensive…. “ World Bank

… and this is the IEEE Mission

Evolve from the past, means new perspectives…

Public organizations are very different from companies

and private organizations

In addition, Information Society has new paradigms,

because society has evolved with technology

… and future means VISION…

… but what does Vision mean?

IEEE’s core is addressed to the e-Government topic too

The IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering

Terminology (Std 610.12-1990, The Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers, New York) defines

1990:

Interoperability

As “the ability of two or more systems or components to

exchange information and to use that has been

exchanged”

And 21 years later…

US Government Cloud high priority requirements - 2011

Interoperability

9 times

In 10

requirements

Management sciences view for

Management sciences view for

1. Broadcast Technology Society

2. Circuits & Systems Society

3. Communications Society

4. Computer Society 5. Electomagnetic Compatibility Society

6. Electron Devices Society

7. Industrial Electronics Society

8. Photonics Society

9. Professional Communication Society

10.Reliability Society

11.Signal Processing Society

12.Solid State Circuits Society

13.Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

14.Vehicular Technology Society

14 IEEE Societies are member of IEEE TMC:

Transversal TMC Fields of Interest:

Group of IEEE Societies working togheter IEEE Council =

In Organizations =

Private &

Public Organizations

The IEEE Spain, IEEE TMC Spain & IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE Strategic Plan... A definition of VISION is: A statement

of what the world will be like after we have achieved our mission.

Strategic

alignment

... & Government

eGovernment in IEEE conferences...

In a lot of topics (Smart Cities, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Interoperability...)

(Source: Gascó, 2007)

... IEEE Publications & more...

eGovernment has become a strategic area in our

Information Society, and IEEE is a worldwide reference in its

field, and the IEEE eGovernment view was needed:

This is the IEEE eGovernment Initiative

• Worldwide

• Transversal

• IEEE CS & IEEE

• IT Management , innovation, technology…

• Specialized in the Governmental context (for

OpenGov, GovCloud, Smart Cities, Interoperability,

cybersecurity, green IT …)

The IEEE eGovernment Initiative Mission & Some Areas:

Mission – To support public managers worldwide pursuing excellence in

management of innovation and technology on eGovernment in order to

be more efficient, effective and transparent, to serve to the citizen.

Some related interest areas:

1.Design of governmental systems, standards, architectures and

configurations for interoperability

2.Infrastructure and underlying architecture in public organizations

3.Project design, scalability, maintainability, special policies, standard

development platforms, etc

4.Protection and hosting of data, privacy, resistance to hacking and

break-in, resilience to failures and emergencies....

5.Change management in the public organizations.

6.IT and Information Systems strategic alignment with the “public

policies”, principles and e-Government strategies.

The growing process of the IEEE eGovernment Initiative :

• Newsletter for the eGovernment

community

• Workshops, co-located with IEEE

conferences, for authors and

attendees

• Draft standards,

• Technical articles to various

periodicals

• Courseware for government IT

practitioners” …

• Newsletter for the eGovernment

community

• Workshops, co-located with IEEE

conferences, for authors and

attendees

• Draft standards,

• Technical articles to various

periodicals

• Courseware for government IT

practitioners” …

IEEE Special Technical Community on

eGovernment

IEEE Special Technical Community on

eGovernment

Speeches in specialized and very relevant fora

Open Government Data

e-Government Cybersecurity

18

but... e-Government cybersecurity is

harder to control:

complex structure & accountability (decentralized, multi-organism, dispersed authority,

independent agencies)

Standards & best practices from e-Business world could be used The process approach for information security management presented in ISO/IEC 2701:2005

encourages its users to emphasize the importance of:

a) understanding an organization’s information security requirements and the need to establish policy and

objectives for information security;

b) implementing and operating controls to manage an organization's information security risks in the context

of the organization’s overall business risks;

c) monitoring and reviewing the performance and effectiveness of the ISMS; and

d) continual improvement based on objective measurement.

Develop IEEE specific forum is a must

By Hector Puyosa: IEEE eGovernment Cybersecurity

Even If you are not an IEEE member, but you are

practitioner/researcher/student interested on

technology and:

• #OpenGov

• #SmartCities

• #OpenData

• #mGov

• #Cybersecurity

• Or other #eGov areas...

Contact us!!!

Social Networks to communicating:

• IEEE Conferences web site: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/index.html

• IEEE Computer Society: http://www.computer.org

• IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/co/2011/06/mco2011060084.htm

• IEEE eGovernment Initiative Linkedin Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-eGovernment-

Initiative-4568293/about

• IEEE eGovernment Special Technical Community: http://stc-egov.ieee.net

• IEEE Strategic Plan: http://ewh.ieee.org/tab/strategy/index.php?context=IEEE

• IEEE Technology Management Council Spain: http://sites.ieee.org/spain-tmc

• NIST US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/SP_500_293_volumeI-2.pdf

• US Digital Government Strategy 2012: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-eGovernment-Initiative-

4568293/about

• World Bank eGovernment definition: http://go.worldbank.org/M1JHE0Z280

Links, documents & references used

carlosjimenez at ieee.org

http://about.me/estratic

Thank you very much!!

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