IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

Eines der größten Probleme beim strategischen Umstieg der Stadt München auf Linux als Betriebssystem für rund 14.000 Verwaltungs-PCs ("LiMux") ist die Migration von rund 300 Applikationen vom bislang genutzten Windows auf das quelloffene Betriebssystem. "Wir wussten von Anfang an, dass es nicht einfach werden würde, die vielen verwaltungsspezifischen Anwendungen der Stadt zu migrieren", erklärte Florian Schiessl, einer der Projektverantwortlichen, gegenüber dem "IDG News Service". "Und ehrlich, das ist es wirklich nicht."

Two English counties are to cooperate on a programme aiming to allow service requests across council boundaries

Councils in Staffordshire and Warwickshire are to work jointly to improve customer services and develop "change management" initiatives, it was announced on 25 October 2005.

North Somerset Council rolls out RSA Security technology

Mobile workers at North Somerset Council have been given physical authentication devices as part of an initiative to secure remote working.

Some 450 council employees have been issued with SecurID tokens from RSA Security to access sensitive information from outside the office securely.

Colorado Signs Multi-Year Self-Funding Portal Agreement

The state of Colorado has chosen a subsidiary of NIC (Nasdaq:EGOV) to build and manage its enterprise eGovernment Web portal for up to nine years.

Colorado has signed a five-year agreement for eGovernment services that has renewal options through 2014. NIC's Colorado Interactive subsidiary will deploy the self-funded model to provide the infrastructure and staff expertise required to develop, maintain, and host the eGovernment portal. Colorado will retain ownership of the content, data, and statutory fees.

On top of an earlier £2.5m grant

The government is set to spend a further £500,000 to fund research into how people want to communicate with their councils.

This is in addition to the £2.5m the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) gave Norwich City Council (NCC) earlier in the year to research what people want from e-government, an initiative dubbed the e-citizen National Project.