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

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