602XML Forms Solutions for eGovernment in European projects

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602XML FormsSolutions for eGovernmentin
European projects
Dr. Zdenek M. Zalis
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Communication between citizens and public
authorities is based on FORMS

• Does the public understand?
• Is the user forced to use expensive proprietary
  software licenses to fill in the form (typically
  MS Office, etc.)?
• Are current forms ready for true electronic
  solution?

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602XML Filler

• Main advantages
• Off-line filling-in
• Immediate data control
• Electronic signature support
• XML Data/File submit using HTTPS, SOAP, Govtalk
  (PVS), e-mail
• Supports repeating sections
• Calculation
• Support of binary document attachments
• Context help
• Professional print
• Export to PDF
• Complies with W3C standards

602XML Filler is a freeware!
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XML Form Structure

• Data model
• Data are separated from formatting
• XForm Standard
• Form formatting
• Comes out from XSL-FO standard (page-oriented
  formatting)
• Electronic signature
• XML signature (W3C)
• PKCS7 (RFC 2315)

602XML Form

XML
Data

XSL-FO
Formatting
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Basic parameters of electronic form

• SAY NO! to office documents (doc, xls)
• Web forms only when filling in simple easy forms
• No WYSIWYG
• No intelligence
• XML form
• Off-line fill in
• Electronically signed data submit
• Application for filling in the forms must be
  simple and free
• Form must dynamically react to filled in data
• Form must be able to connect to Internet/Intranet
  for updates
• Form must be able to dynamically download data
  (such as lists, personal information) from
  database

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CZECH POINT

• Czech governmental initiative to enable citizens
  to get excerpts from basic registers through so
  called unified contact points
• Pilot phase of the project
• Unified form interface to important registers
  Cadastral register, Business register,
  Criminal records, etc.
• Connection with database through authorized legal
  subjects (municipality, chamber of commerce, post
  offices, etc.)
• Output verified copy of the document

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Project CZECH POINT
Municipal office
Web service, evidence
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Project CZECH POINT
Municipal office
Web service, evidence
UID
Printed output and verification code
Oh yes, I want this output!
Output
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Workpad / FP6

• The Consortium consists of a complementary set of
  top-level scientific partners
• UOR, TOR VERGATA, UW, SALZBURG RESEARCH
• a world-leading industrial company IBM ITALIA
• focused SMEs
• MOVIQUITY, Software602
• a user partner capable to take up WORKPAD results
• Regione Calabria Settore Protezione Civile
  Homeland Security Department, PCRC

www.workpad-project.eu
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Workpad

• Project aims at building and developing an
  innovative software infrastructure for supporting
  collaborative work of human operators in
  emergency/disaster scenarios.
• In such scenarios, different teams, belonging to
  different organizations, need to collaborate with
  one other to reach a common goal each team
  member is equipped with handheld devices (PDAs)
  and communication technologies, and should carry
  on specific tasks.
• Each team is supported by some back-end centre,
  and the different centers need to cooperate at an
  inter-organizational level to reach an effective
  coordination among teams.
• A single front-end community is constituted by
  the operators of a team, equipped with mobile
  devices, connected in an ad hoc and peer-to-peer
  fashion, that carry on a process, in which the
  adaptiveness to connection/task anomalies is
  fundamental.
• 602XML forms are part of the projected Front-End

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Workpad Architecture
602XML key words emergency scenarios-intelligent
forms-communication-
P2Pnetwork-online/offline data
acquisition-data exchange www.workpad-project.eu
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eParicipate
www.eparticipate.org
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eParicipate

• Initial Deployment project (after Market
  validation)
• eTen 2006 project of the year
• The model for eParticipation being used is
  similar to Aronsteins Ladder of Participation
  (levels of participationcitizen
  control-gtdelegated power-gtpartnership-gtplacation-gt
  consultation-gtinforming-gttherapy-gtmanipulation)
• Project consortium
• 19 partners
• 11 local authorities (GB, IE, ES, SK, IT, FR,
  CZ, DK, SE)
• 8 technological business partners

www.eparticipate.org
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Legese / eParticipation

• Easing Participation in Legislative Processes
• The implementation of European Directives and
  other legislation at regional and local level has
  a major impact on citizens lives, but few are
  aware or participate in the local implementation
  of such legislation.
• As a web-based service, LEGESE will complement
  and enhance at a regional level the European
  Parliaments own web television channel and
  provide future potential functional and
  citizen-centred e-participation enhancements to
  that service.

www. legese.org
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Legese / eParticipation

• Legese project consortium
• National Microelectronics Applications Centre
  (IE), Project Manager, Coordinator, evolution
  from eParticipate eTEN project -
  www.mac.ie
• Public-I Group (GB), Technology Platform service
  Provider Evaluator - www.public-i.eu
• Software602 (CZ), XML Forms engine development
  - www.602.cz
• Bristol County Council (GB), ePetitioner System
  User Org/Field Trials -www.bristol-city.gov.uk
• Mairie D'Elancourt (FR), User Organisation/Field
  Trials - www.ville-elancourt.fr
• Vysocina Regional Authority (CZ), User Org/Field
  Trials - New Member State - www.kr-vysocina.cz

www. legese.org
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