News and Briefs
Valentina Trikounaki, Eleni Revekka Staiou · International Journal of Electronic Governance · 2011
Very brief outlines of four projects are given: the UK red tape challenge, whose purpose is to promote open discussion on which regulations are working, which are not and which need to be simplified or scrapped; a US IT dashboard and techstat toolkit looking at federal IT investments; the EU SEMIRAMIS which defines a pilot infrastructure that provides e-services in line with the required underlying secure authentication and management approach and tests it representing a large number of options related to ID management and secure data transfer; and AlphaGov, a prototype for a single UK government site, open to public testing and using open, agile, multi-disciplinary product development techniques to meet users' needs.