eGovernment for Citizen: Leveraging Open SOA Standards and Interoperability Frameworks

A. Svirskas, A. Robinson, J. Isačenkova, OASIS eGov Workshop, May 1st 2008, Santa Clara, USA

eGovernment for Citizen:Leveraging Open SOA Standards and

Interoperability Frameworks

Adomas Svirskas1, Andrew Robinson2, Jelena Isačenkova1

, 1Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, France2R4eGov project, University of Leeds, hon Consul for France, UK

OASIS Symposium, e-Government Workshop, May 1st 2008, Santa Clara, USA


Agenda

General business context of the R4eGov

project

Challenges,Technical Context

Conceptual model and proposed solution

Some BHAGs

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A. Svirskas, A. Robinson, J. Isačenkova, OASIS eGov Workshop, May 1st 2008, Santa Clara, USA3

In a Nutshell The business context

EU IST FP6 project R4eGov – www.r4egov.eu Collaboration among 27 EU member states governments

The main issues On-demand Interoperability Privacy, Security and Trust

The technology context SOA and Web 2.0 based solutions… Web Services, Grid & Rich Internet Applications…

Proposed approach Lightweight standards-based interoperability framework

with emphasis on basic enforceable security


The Business Context

EU IST FP6 project R4eGov – www.r4egov.eu Government agencies of the 27 EU Member

States need to be able to e-collaborate The agencies are very independent,

autonomous and protective of their data Growing number of regulations are in effect The equilibrium between individual interests

and common goals needs to be found and procedures put in place accordingly


R4eGov Challenges

Towards “e-Admininstration in the large“ The challenge is to facilitate the swift and

secure exchange of information among public administrations wherever they happen to be and wherever citizens wish to access them

This requires some tools to enable the agencies and public service professionals to “talk to each other” in compliance with the law, securely and meet data protection rules

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Citizen-centricity : how to measure success of R4eGov?

No citizen left behind, if no professional left behind

Helping shape and train tomorrow’s competent authorities with a European skillset

Evaluating what their real needs are Alliance of:

technical tools new skills leadership, change management awareness of tomorrow’s needs today


From project vision to project results to European vision

The results accelerate the realisation of the vision

Provided they are communicated to key stakeholders who trial, adapt, and implement

As part of a journey which goes beyond i2010 To the i2015 vision and i2020 vision led by

France and Sweden respectively

i2010 is the EU policy framework for the information society and media. It promotes the positive contribution that information and communication technologies (ICT) can make to the economy, society and personal quality of life.


So that tomorrow…

The national court of justice in country A The consular office in country B The local health authority in country C The national fraud office in country D The university in city E

have ICT tools providing usable security for cross-border transactions for the mobile EU citizen


Example: The Hague Programme Vision

The Principle of Availability

Throughout the Union, a law enforcement officer in one Member State who needs information in order to perform his duties can obtain this from another Member State and

The law enforcement agency in the other Member State which holds this information will make it available for the stated purpose

The Hague programme is a five-year programme for closer co-operation in justice and home affairs at EU level from 2005 to 2010


Example: Europol-Eurojust Case Study


Interoperability Challenges & Solutions The goal: to create value-added knowledge The context and challenges:

A number of agencies A number of countries A number (large) of processes A number (huge) of data types and formats A number (vast) of messages to exchange A number of other important issues…

A solution: SOA approach, naturally Event-based infrastructure for integration Web services and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)


Collaboration Pattern Variations

Rigid workflows to automate repeatable procedures, eliminate unnecessary human work and mistakes

Ad-hoc creative information manipulation, collective knowledge creation – towards Enterprise (Government) Social Computing

Collecting, Publishing, Tagging – towards Enterprise (Government) Mash-ups


The Technical Context Proliferation of Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) solutions Data as (composite) services Data services aggregated from different sources

on-demand (mash-ups) Social factors of ICT usage

Data is easier to obtain and harder to protect Technical innovations come (and go) fast People use the ICT tools less responsibly, as toys

Collaborative interactions occur in this context


A Solution of the Last Century…

Back-endSystems/Wrappers

MessageValidation

LoggingSecurity Dispatch

Security Privacy Support

Logging Encryption

Request

Response

Back-endAdapter

JavaService

.NetService

Flexible, Loosely Coupled Back-end

Integration

ServiceMediation

ü Service Virtualization

MessageMediation

ü Content-Based Routing

ü Logging

ü Message Transformation

ü Validation

ü Fine-grained Access control

ESB

Internal DomainWeb services application server - IOP Gateway

BD

A

C

D

E

F

B

C

A

Internal

Composite BPELServices

Back-endSystems

Mediator(CBR)

workflow

Mediator(Logging/Monitoring)

Mediator(Security)

WS-Security

WS-SecureConversation

WS-TrustWS-ReliableMessaging

WS-Policy

WS-Addressing

WS-SecurityPolicy

WS-*...


The Basic Solution

The above solution is reasonable and can, with some effort, be put into place

Not so much innovation The R4eGov project bacically met the bacic

objectives It is a research project, supposed to look into

tomorrow and, with some luck beyond So…

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Beyond Tomorrow

The Public has security and trust in ICT-enabled cross-border transactions by the public sector, especially for “life events”

The Professionals have the skills, confidence and foresight to deliver these services

The Project has left results which endure, long after the project is forgotten


Some BHAGs

Google: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal. Boeing: Bet the pot on the B-17, 707 and 747. IBM: Commit to a $5 billion gamble on the 360;

meet the emerging need of our customers. Ford: "Democratize the automobile”. Sony: Change the worldwide image of

Japanese products as poor quality; create a pocketable transistor radio.

R4eGov: Well informed & served citizen is a happier citizen. Let’s make them happier.

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Let’s have it Mashed-up!

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Enterprise/Government Mash-ups Some say it’s just a toy…

And it’s insecure And it’s chaos And it’s not gonna work And it’s against the law

Others say (and do) some other things Serious agencies (e.g. US DoD) starts using Web 2.0 Industry (big names such as IBM) starts embracing it Open source starts supporting it

“The ideal mashup developer is no developer at all.“ Bob Gurley, Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco

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Public Usage Example

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Will I and my car be safe near my hotel?


Public Usage Example

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Example: From Government to Public CrimeReports.com is provided by company

called Public Engines. Public Engines provides Web-based Software

as a Service (SaaS) products to help government agencies manage and control the sharing of data directly with local communities

Public Engines provides a simple, affordable, effective solution for communicating directly with community members within minutes via the Internet and email

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Professional Desktop Usage Example

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StrikeIron SOA Express™ for Excel "Bringing SOA to the Desktop"


Enabling Technology Example

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StrikeIron IronCloud™Managed Infrastructure for your Data as a Servicehttp://www.strikeiron.com/tools/WSPlatform.aspx


Some Interoperability Requirements

For the above to happen we need:

Standards-based (IETF, W3C, OASIS) Simple & Lightweight – not only for rocket scientists Flexible – usable in great variety of environments Easily configurable (no need for 50 in-house

developers)


Standardisation Objectives

R4eGov is committed to the adoption of open standards, and intends to build upon and/or extend interoperability specifications where possible ensure that R4eGov framework uses relevant standards and

interoperability guidelines ensure that R4eGov results contribute to the future

developments of standards in relevant areas Why standardisation matters:

way to promote and achieve interoperability between technologies across different organizations and vendors

interoperability is a key requirement in today’s multi-vendor market (need balance between agreed functionality, competitive advantage, and need for interoperability)

standardisation is an important part of successful exploitation

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Credits

R4eGov project partners, in particular:

Cédric Hébert & Henrik Plate, SAP Labs France Abdelkrim Boujraf, Unisys Belgium Prof. Juliet Lodge, University of Leeds, UK Filippo Angelucci, Europol

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Thank you!

www.r4egov.eu

[email protected], [email protected]@hotmail.com,

[email protected]@eurecom.fr

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