Is eGovernment for People, or against People?
Challenges to Personal Information Management
Arising from eGovernment Business Models and Technology Trends

Roger Clarke

Principal, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra

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A series of discussion sessions for the Ontario Public Service on behalf of the Management Board Secretariat, Toronto, 7-8 June 2004

© Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 2004

This document is at http://www.xamax.com.au/EC/OPS0406.html

Introduction

Sessions for officers of the Ontario Public Service are being organised by the Management Board Secretariat 13:30-16:30 on Monday and Tuesday, 7 and 8 June. The broad theme is Challenges to Personal Information Management arising from eGovernment Business Models and Technology Trends.

Roger Clarke's role in relation to each topic is to:

• provide references to source-materials
• provide an informal lead-in to each topic, supported by slide-sets
• respond to questions with notice
• stimulate questions from, and discussion among, participants
• respond to the questions and discussion

The Schedule
MONDAY 7 JUNE 2004
1:30-3:00 Key Concepts in Contemporary eGovernment

• (Id)entity and Nymity - slides
• Authentication - slides
• Biometrics - slides

3:20-4:30 Concepts and Public Policy Aspects of ...

• Identity Management - slides
• Government Identity Authentication Frameworks - slides
• PETs and Pseudo PETs - slides

TUESDAY 8 JUNE 2004
Public Policy Aspects of eGovernment
1:30-3:00

• eGovernment - slides
• Government Electronic Services Delivery (ESD) - slides
• Entry-Points and 'Portals' - slides
• Web Services - slides

3:20-4:30

• 'Joined Up Government' - slides
• The Dangers of Consolidated Government - slides
• Citizen Engagement Models - slides

References
(Id)entity and Nymity

• Identity and Nymity: Public Policy Issues, at
  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/IdNymPPI.html
• Anonymous, Pseudonymous and Identified Transactions: The Spectrum of Choice, at
  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/UIPP99.html

Authentication

• Authentication: A Sufficiently Rich Model to Enable e-Business, at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/AuthModel.html

Biometrics

• Biometrics' Inadequacies and Threats, and the Need for Regulation, at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/BiomThreats.html

Identity Management

• The Technologies, Their Business Value, Their Problems, and Their Prospects, from http://www.xamax.com.au/EC/IdMngt.html

PETs and Pseudo-PETs

• Introducing PITs and PETs: Technologies Affecting Privacy, at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/PITsPETs.html

eGovernment

• eBusiness Definitions, at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ECDefns.html

Government Electronic Services Delivery (ESD)

• Electronic Services Delivery: From Brochure-Ware to Entry Points, at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ESD.html

Web Services

• Collaborative Processing ('Web Services'), at
  http://www.xamax.com.au/ECOM6001/WWW.html#CP

Citizen Engagement Models

• The Internet and Democracy, at http://www.xamax.com.au/EC/Democracy.html

About the Presenter

Roger Clarke is an experienced consultant, whose primary expertise is in strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy.

Within the broad eBusiness arena, his areas of specialisation include:

• eCommerce (technology evaluation, architecture, trust, security, privacy, e-consent, authentication, digital signatures, public key infrastructure)
• ePublishing (architectures, discovery strategies, metadata, copyright, digital rights management, information management, information policy)
• eGovernment (ESD, portals, entry-points, multi-site collaboration strategies, architectures and technologies, purchasing, privacy impact assessment)
• eEducation (virtual universities, copyright management)

He is a frequent contributor to conferences and seminars throughout Australia and overseas, usually focussing on topics and perspectives that conventional presenters overlook or wilfully ignore.

He holds Commerce degrees from U.N.S.W. and a doctorate from the A.N.U. He spent a decade as a senior academic, has ongoing associations with universities and conferences in Australia, Europe, Asia and Canada, and is currently a Visiting Professor at U.N.S.W. (in Cyberspace Policy) and the University of Hong Kong (in eCommerce), and a Visiting Fellow at the A.N.U. (in Computer Science).

He is an experienced Director of private companies, is Chair of a Ministerial company operating in the dot.gov space, and is on the Boards of several incorporated associations.

He maintains a substantial resources site, which attracts over 2.5 million hits p.a. It includes the world's most authoritative web-pages on 'Waltzing Matilda'.

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