Bayern: LiMux: Migration der Anwendungen ist ein Problem
UK: Connecting across the border
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.
UK: Council gives remote workers security tokens
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.
USA: NIC Wins Colorado Web Portal Management Contract
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.
UK: Norwich given £500k to evaluate e-citizen needs
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.