The OASIS eGovernment Member Section will host a workshop on "Electronic Identity and Citizen-Centric Administration" on 1 May in conjunction with the Open Standards 2008 symposium in Santa Clara, California. The eGov workshop will focus on authentication, security, composability for Web services, inter-operability frameworks, and implementation guidelines for open standards. Proposals for panels, presentations or discussion papers related to these themes should be submitted to the OASIS eGov Steering Committee by 3 March.

Good e-government starts from the citizen's eye view, not the bureaucrat's needs. Many expensive e-government investments have failed to deliver - we have good information online, but this adds up to "i-government". To quote from /The Economist, "The citizen-centered perspective is short-hand for the good point - so far largely ignored in e-government design- that setting up new electronic systems only to mimic the old offline ones is a bit of a waste of time"[February 16 2008].

The OASIS eGov Workshop will put the spotlight on the citizen and the taxpayer, focusing on their needs and exploring the technology that can deliver real solutions based on open standards.

See:
- OASIS eGov Workshop Call for Papers