Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

LEFIS - APTICE: Legal Framework for the Information Society II

The LEFIS Network: technical infrastructure

and

the Observatory on e-Government

Pilar Lasala

APTICE

Universidad de Zaragoza

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

www.lefis.org First version

To give public information of the network activities

To allow to share information among the participants in the network (intranet)

Access to the intranet introducing an user's name and a password

A certification authority was developed (ca.lefis.org); and a public key infrastructure that allowed to directly access to the intranet by means of a certificate

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

www.lefis.org Second version

A new server, to replace the old one, has been bought

An ADSL line to connect the server will be used

An uninterrupted power system (UPS) to assure the constant server operation

The free and open source tool MOODLE (www.moodle.org), has been selected to develop the new LEFIS website

MoodlePKI Project: PKI Integration in the Moodle environment

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

www.lefis.org Second version

It is expected that this development will be finished by June of 2006

Two scholars have been dedicated to carry out this implementation

The software to be used to develop the new LEFIS Website is the LAMP platform: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP; also Tomcat, Moodle, Java and OpenCA

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

www.lefis.org Second version

The website will have:

A public part, to offer on line information on the project with:

• Calendar, news, search engine, contents organized by categories, modules...

A private work and contents environment, to allow the LEFIS members to be able to make its tasks, to access to information and results of the project

• Resources: links, access to documents, files, folders...

• Activities: communication processes, work, work group organization...

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

www.lefis.org Moodle-PKI Project

Authentication based on digital certificates

Operations of electronic signature

Safe communications and networking

Interoperable PKI system

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

TECHNICAL INTRAESTRUCTURE FOR THE LEFIS NETWORK

phpsurveyor (www.phpsurveyor.org)

Some web interfaces have been developed using this open source tool:

LEFIS questionnaire for employers http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=13

LEFIS questionnaire for graduates http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=14

LEFIS questionnaire for firms and teachers of continuing educationhttp://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=12

LEFIS questionnaire for teachers of undergraduate studies http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=10

LEFIS questionnaire for teachers of postgraduate studies http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=11

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

THE INTERNATIONAL E-GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY (EGOBS)

www.egobs.org

ALFA Network of Electronic Government, supported by the European Union (ALFA Program) :

Network members: Universities of Zaragoza (Spain), Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK), Münster (Germany), Burgos (Spain), Valladolid (Spain), Havana (Cuba), Diego Portales (Chile), of the Republic of Uruguay of Montevideo (Uruguay) and of La Plata (Argentina)

Network duration: from 2002 up to 2006

Responsible researcher: Fernando Galindo

15 scholars are dedicated to the EGOBS project, with stays in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, studying the operation of different websites of electronic government

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

THE INTERNATIONAL E-GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY (EGOBS)

www.egobs.org/index_en.htm

A web tool has been developed so that they can introduce the answers to an evaluation questionnaire:

• Questionnaire Phase 0: Search of data in the national institutes of statistics of the countries corresponding to the evaluated web

http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=22

• Questionnaire Phase I: Search of data in documental databases, search engines, listings,...

http://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=24

• Questionnaire Phase II: Analysis of the target Websitehttp://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=25

• Questionnaire Phase III: Interview with the Website responsiblehttp://www.lefis.org/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=26

Universidad de Zaragoza

LEFIS General Assembly Firenze 10-11 February 2006

THE INTERNATIONAL E-GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY (EGOBS)

The activities of the Observatory, in development and experimentation at this time, can be considered a first step in order that the Observatory will be one of the products of LEFIS, informing of the activities related to electronic Government happening in the different countries where the members of LEFIS reside

www.egobs.org/index_en.htm