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27 Nov · Sun 2005

A plug for EntireID


As Drew has already blogged, he was also at the Manchester conference, doing sterling work on the Sun stand along with Suzie Bacon and Les Baker from Sun, and Patrick McKenna from ActivIdentity. Among other things, Drew was demonstrating some very nifty ID technology, about which more later. So keep an eye on Drew's blog, and here too for some questions about how you spot valid credentials...
Posted by racingsnake @ 11:04 PM GMT+00:00

The urinals have ears...


Just a little vignette. I was discussing RFID with one of the other delegates over a pint in the hotel bar, and (how can I put this delicately...) we both headed for a comfort break at the same time. Naturally we continued our conversation, and as we walked in through the door my interlocutor was saying: "so, if you take the analogy of, say, a laser-guided weapon..." Much to the surprise of the gentleman who was already availing himself of the facilities.
Posted by racingsnake @ 10:30 PM GMT+00:00

Notes from last week...


I spent most of last week in Manchester, attending a brace of e-government conferences. The first was UK-centric, the second (Thursday and Friday) had a Europe-wide scope, and was hosted by the UK as part of its current presidency of the European Union.

Both conferences were a great opportunity to find out first-hand about the leading e-government projects across the UK and EU, as well as a first-rate networking occasion. I'll post more over the next few days, but as a starter, here are the four items of the Ministerial Declaration which summarised the EU's strategy for e-Government:

  • Inclusion: "No Citizen Left Behind"
  • Use IT in support of efficient and effective e-government
  • Deliver high-impact customer-centric services
  • Use trusted identities to secure EU-wide service delivery
That last one is backed up by a broader statement setting out a strategic objective of interoperable electroninc identities between the public and commercial sectors, and between local, regional and national schemes. My sang froid award for the week goes to my friend and colleague Hellmuth Broda, Sun's CTO for EMEA. Hellmuth flew in from Zurich for a session starting at 9am. To get to Zurich he had to deal with 4 inches of overnight snow. His flight had closed when he arrived, but his loyalty card got him onto it at the last second. At the base of the boarding steps, the ground crew had just left a snowman and gone back into the warm. Then his flight waited for half an hour in the queue for the de-icer... The first available rail link train into the city from Manchester airport left just after 9am, so at the conference we were into fallback mode: the chairman of the session would flip the agenda a little, and I would stand in if Hellmuth still couldn't make it in time. At 9:43 Hellmuth walked into the room, just in time to catch a couple of the Q&A items, be introduced and step up to the lectern, where he gave his customarily polished performance, and finished on time to the minute. Nice work, Hellmuth.
Posted by racingsnake @ 10:21 PM GMT+00:00
 
 
 
 
 
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