1. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark The Danish plan - open government, coherent information and multichannel service Michael Bang Kjeldgaard Chief consultant Managing Information Resources for e-Goverment conference. Brussels 21-22 June 2001

2. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Goals & visions  Open government  Better services  The user as the focal point  Quality & coherence  Higher efficiency  Many channels/portals  All media  New partnerships  BPR  Digital service communities From cold to warm hands

3. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Strategy  General strategy & architecture  New data agreement  XML implementation plan

4. Base: Common standards for data, information.. Pillars: Common functions og services Roof: Common agreements, rules and regulations

5. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Background  Strong tradition for common standards  National key data: CPR, CVR, BBR  Local government case handling systems  Local government metadata system for filing  Already several XML projects  Services  Data distribution  Forms

6. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Organisation  Driver for e-government  E-government Board  Task force  Body for standardisation  Coherent Public Information Committee  XML Committee  Working groups  Support  E-government units in various agencies

7. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark How do we plan to implement XML? Coordination & timeplanning Priorities: General use & high value, actual demand & concrete projects Common methodology & procedures Common repository with community for XML development Plus: Connect to the international world

8. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Rich or poor schemas? Schema Special systems Workflow & content management Forms & interactive applications Schema

9. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark Making the onion PsXML: Public Service eXtensible Markup Language? ”The big DTD”: A basic point of reference Collection of elements/fragments Description and rules for names, content, value, relations, mapping to internationalt standards etc. Eg. CPR, CVR, BBR Public service ethics schema

10. National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark So what? Probably nothing out of the ordinary –Doing what everybody is aiming at now DK has a few points of advantage - and disadvantage –central-decentral consensus –wall-to-wall systems –small language We will be looking out!