The Other James Brown
Public Sector, Identity, Privacy and other bits...
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Hopefully over the next few years, software developers, technology companies and the IT industry as...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 03/01/2011
Gov2.0 and Facebook ‘Like’ Buttons
I am all for Gov2.0. I think that it can genuinely make a difference and help bring public sector...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/07/2010
Insurers use social networking sites to identify risky clients
Of all the fun topics in IT going around at the moment, privacy is a good one. There is a lot...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/30/2010
The changing face of cyber security for governments
I have spent a fair amount of time working on government systems, and security has always been a...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/29/2010
The anti-privacy lobby?
I am normally glad when privacy stories hit the mainstream media, as the general public need to...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/25/2010
OpenID Issues
Interesting post called OpenID is a Nightmare highlights a few potential problems with the...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/22/2010
SharePoint 2010 Accessibility
Just a very quick post to say that more details have been released on SharePoint 2010 Accessibility...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 03/10/2010
Time to take change seriously?
A very interesting day all in all. It started out with a little trip to London to meet up with...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/27/2010
New is not always better
Over time I have written less and less software; the last development team removed my access rights...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/02/2009
Are citizens finally customers?
I was in Japan last month (fascinating county, would love to go back and spend more time there)...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/27/2009
SharePoint 2010 for Governments
I have to admit, I am hugely impressed with the new functionality on offer in SharePoint 2010, it is...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/22/2009
SharePoint 2010 accessibility with WCAG 2.0 support
UPDATE - Since this blog post more information has been released about accessibility in SharePoint...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/19/2009
Government Cloud Computing - Public or Private
One of the hottest topics in government at the moment is usage of the cloud, and this was one of the...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 09/29/2009
Twitter usage guidelines
Well I have been away on the road for the last couple of weeks at the annual internal Microsoft...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 08/05/2009
Microsoft Public Sector Government Partner of the year – Spenta Consulting
Congratulations and well done to everyone at Spenta, you really deserved to win the Microsoft...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/19/2009
All looks great, but why do we need Gov2.0?
I was working with one of our teams in the Middle East to help them prepare for a presentation to a...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/17/2009
Windows Azure
At the Worldwide Partner Conference more details have just been announced around Windows Azure, the...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/15/2009
Governments engaging using Social Media
There are three interesting posts this week from various sources around Social Media. First...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/09/2009
Twitter usage in emergency situations
The BBC website has an article ‘Twitter to give bushfire alerts’ where it explains that after this...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/08/2009
Government and Twitter: Wanted – One usage policy….
As reported on localgov.co.uk, Croydon council has had to suspend its use of Twitter after a member...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/06/2009
Government 2.0 Examples: Good and Bad
Like all things there are good and bad examples of Gov 2.0. One of the main drivers for Gov...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 07/01/2009
Should government own our data?
I know when someone first started to describe to me the concept that the government should not hold...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/30/2009
The dark side of Gov 2.0
I am rather enjoying Andrea DiMaio’s latest post – It is time to explore the dark side of Government...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/27/2009
Gov 2.0 in Local Government: Yammer or Twitter?
Gov 2.0 can and will effect all levels of governments and associated agencies. Over on the Headstar...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/26/2009
Putting government data online
Tim Berners-Lee has published a set of notes that he has written after talks with various people in...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/25/2009
Do we have to define Gov 2.0?
There is so much being written about Gov 2.0, about what it means to different people - however we...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/23/2009
Authorisation
(note to self, don't start writing a series of posts unless you have them all ready to publish...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/19/2009
We need more that just Employee-Centric Government
Andrea DiMaio the Gartner eGov blogger posted yesterday about Governments needing to be...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/12/2009
The Other James Brown
James Brown was the Architect for the UK Government Gateway, one of the world’s largest central...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/11/2009
Gov2.0 and Data
An important thing happened today, and hopefully it will influence the Gov2.0 direction that the UK...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 06/11/2009
Cloud Computing in Government
Without a doubt Cloud Computing is going to open up a whole new world of possibilities. Looking...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 05/19/2009
Tokens and Claims
So where were we…. eID for Governments Federation for Government Overview Identity Providers...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 05/11/2009
Microsoft Business Value Framework
(Taking a quick break from my Identity posts…) I am currently out attending the Local and Regional...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/22/2009
Do you need strong authentication?
So before I move off the authentication topic, I just wanted to put forward a question. Do we...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/20/2009
Authentication Methods
One of the the primary roles of the Identity Provider is to authenticate the user that has been sent...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/17/2009
Identity Providers
Previous Posts in this series: eID for Governments Federation for Governments Overview Identity...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/15/2009
Federation for Government Overview
(Following on from the previous post - eID for Governments) So why federation? I want to...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/07/2009
eID for Governments
Citizen identity online is still one of the hardest things for a Government to get right. In a...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 04/01/2009
Cloud Computing and Data Sovereignty
For Governments, this is going to be one of the biggest hurdles for Cloud Computing – where is my...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 03/18/2009
Spotlight APAC - CSP
Microsoft’s Spotlight Program was originally developed in Queensland Australia as a way of...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 03/06/2009
Open Source, Standards, Interoperability and Microsoft
There have been a few good announcements from Microsoft and customers around topics on Open Source,...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 03/02/2009
Gov 2.0 – Why Governments need to engage
There are a number of reasons why Governments need to start looking at Gov 2.0. One of those...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/24/2009
Gordon McKenzie is now blogging
I would like to welcome Gordon McKenzie to the world of blogging! Gordon is a colleague of...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/22/2009
CSP VPC Demo Download
I often get asked how and where people can get hold of the Microsoft CSP VPC Demo to download. This...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/19/2009
Windows Live Admin Center
So the first question that springs to most people’s minds is “what on earth is the Windows Live...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/13/2009
Gov 2.0 can fail
I referenced some of the issues that Gov 2.0 can come up against in some previous posts, and it is...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/10/2009
Should Governments have websites?
There have been a number of different threads discussing whether Government should even have web...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/04/2009
S+S – Lifeline of SaaS?
There have been a number of events and posts over the last few weeks that have raised issues with...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 02/01/2009
Local and Regional Government Solutions Forum 2009
We are hosting this year’s Local and Regional Government Solutions forum in Bilbao on the 22nd and...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/30/2009
What am I talking about?
I have to admit, I do think Wordle is great. It is a really interesting way of viewing what is being...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/30/2009