Registration of Interest

REGISTRATION OF INTEREST

INDEX

Next Meeting

Objectives

Meeting History

Computerworld Survey Report on Local Government 08/12/2000

2nd Planning Discussion - Issues Mon 18/12/2000

1st Planning Discussion - Issues Wed 15/11/2000

Member Interest Registration

Membership Application

Next Meeting

ZIG/ZAG:	Local Government & XML Special Interest Group [XZIG]	Objectives:	education/awareness program confirm roadshow work-group survey questionnaire
Date:	Wednesday 22 Aug 2001	Time:	5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue:	QANTAS Theatre - AAPT Building 259 George Street SYDNEY 2000	Contact:	Stevan GILLMORE 0403-492-849


PROGRAM SPONSOR:	Available for Sponsorship

Objectives

The Objectives of the Local Government XML & E-commerce Special Interest Group include:

1	raising awareness of XML with Council Application software developers
2	promoting awareness of the benefits of XML & E-commerce for Local Government
3	providing XML training courses for software developers
4	developing a range of XML Courses for Local Government users
5	regular reviews strategy to promote XML
6	establishing beta-test site projects for Local Government application modules
7	implementing a participation accreditation process
8	enhancing the profiles of members involved with XML

Back to Index

Meeting History

Roadshow work group Wed 24/01/2001 Agreement on program Wed 20/01/2000 Policy meeting Mon 18/12/2000 Meeting with LGSA Thu 30/11/2000 Objectives Confirmation Thu 15/11/2000 Formation meeting Fri 06/10/2000 The Education/awareness meeting date is Wed 24/01/2001. If you would like to attend register here

Computerworld Survey report 08/12/2000


> > COMPUTER WORLD TODAY FRI 08/12/2000
> >
> > Local Government Finds Vendors Lacking
> >
> > Business; Government
> >
> > Ignored by major software suppliers and struggling to integrate corporate
> > systems, more than half of Australia's IT managers in local government are
> > dissatisfied with their current vendor. Despite handling budgets bigger
> > than most medium-sized businesses local government has traditionally been
> > an 'unknown' segment of the market with providers not even bothering to
> > find out their needs and expectations. These are the findings of a Butler
> > Group survey of 86 local government IT managers across Australia which is
> > aimed at providing a forum for these managers to compare their experiences
> > with vendor products and services.
> > Click on this link for the full story.
> >
> > 
>

Back to Index

Issues 2nd Planning Meeting Mon 18/12/2000

Proposed Agenda:

 A	Assess the opportunity - 10 mins
 	a	How many Councils	Aus 770	?	NSW	174
  	b	What do Councils spend IT - research
  	c	What do Councils spend on telephones - research
  	d	What do Councils spend on events - research
  	e	What funds allocated E-procurement local businesses - research
  	f	Return on project participation

 B	Council & rate-payer requirements - Discussion 20 mins

	  Review Council Syndicate Requirements - specifically:
	a	Different Modules - who can provide software - research
	b	Standard N&A format - XML foundation
	c	What does a rate-payer want ?

 C	Raising Awareness - Discussion 30 - 45 mins
	a	Software providers - benefits moving to XML
	b	Council management - who to invite ? - research
  	c	Council influencers - LGSA + ? - research
  	d	Schedule training programs - 12 mths, 24 mths, 36 mths
   		1	XML - software developers
   		2	Management - Council management
   		3	Technical - Council IT and specific eg GIS
   		4	Application specific - Library/Financials etc
  	e	Who to contact - how tel/e-mail - research
  	f	Who will contact - which members can assist
  	g	How will we keep records to co-ordinate information

D	Developing E-procurement prototype/integrated systems - 15 mins
  	a	Who specifies prototype
  	b	Who project manager
  	c	Who pays for prototype
  	d	Who pays for integrated system

 E	Formulate Recommendation AGM Wed 20/12/2000 - 15 minutes
  	a	Education/Awareness program
  	b	Sharing costs
  	c	ROI to Members

Back to Index

Issues 1st Planning Meeting 15/11/2000

07:12 Sunday 12 November 2000					REF: ZLASBR2

TO:	LZIG members - Local Government
	XZIG members - XML & E-commerce

cc	OIC Members

PURPOSE

This e-mail is a draft record of the issues discussed Sat 11/11/2000 re 
developing a Local Government integrated application system based on XML.  

This system is envisaged to meet the requirements identified by Local Councils 
in the EoI dated September 20000 and as each Council moves to a Web based 
information distribution service for rate-payers.

This is the initial awareness/education/marketing phase for Council Software 
Application developers and Local Councils.

It is intended to use this document as part of the discussion with Simon 
NICHOLSON Chair ebXML Marketing/Awareness/Education Project team on 
Wed 15/11/2000.

The contents of this e-mails are:

	A	Meeting Details
	B	Objective meeting
	C	Background meeting
	D	Review TJH record meeting 09/11/2000
	E	Research
		a	1st Level
		b	2nd Level
		c	3rd level
	F	Responsibilities
	G	Costing
	H	Accreditation
	I	Next Steps

A	MEETING DETAILS

DATE:	Sat 11/11/2000			TIME:	10:30 - 12:00

VENUE:	Halisa-NSW Partnership		INVITEES:	
	6 Lower Wycombe Road			Ken BROMFIELD	KDB	KDB Pty (A)
	NEUTRAL BAY 2089			Stevan GILLMORE	SDG	Aiyom
						Sephen GOULD	SGG	HNP
						Lars SORHUS	LSX	HNP
											
B	MEETING OBJECTIVES:

a	review record meeting TJH & SGG Thu 09/11/2000
b	develop research process to discover information
c	prepare XML awareness/education/marketing strategy for Local Councils for 
	consideration LZIG meeting Wed 15/11/2000

C	BACKGROUND

In August 2000 the OIC Document Indexing Work Group of the ZXIG identified 
Local Government as an industry group that may specifically benefit from XML & 
E-commerce.

This was re-inforced in Sep 2000 by the Expression of Interest [EoI] issued by a 
Syndicate of 9 Councils for an integrated application system based on a 
standard Name and Address format for multiple contacts including:

	a	Suppliers
	b	Employees
	c	Rate-payers
	d	Property Owners
	e	Developers
	f	Councillors

The EoI identified approximately 40 application modules over 10 categories.

Feedback received from 2 Councils who are part of the Syndicate for more 
information on XML and what it offers.

D	REVIEW TJH RECORD MEETING 09/11/2000

a	Identified Application Developers as well as Councils in need of XML 	
	awarenesss/marketing/education

b	TJH interest in providing management awareness/education for senior 		
	management of Councils

c	Timetable for 1st presentations to Council

		TJH Content				Marketing Contacts

	Presentation 		20-20 Feb	Telephone follow-up	Feb 2001
	Practice del		Jan 29		E-mail questions	Jan 2001
	Prepare PPT		Jan 22		Research questions	Dec 2000
	Content Detail		Jan 8		Research Web sites	Dec 2000
	Content for Web site	Nov 23		Research - e-mail lists	Nov 20 

d	Schedule awareness/education/marketing seminars 12 months

e	Different levels of Courses
	1	Management awareness
	2	XML for application developers
	3	XML for Council applications - IT
	4	XML for Council End -users
	
E	RESEARCH

a	Initial Research

During Sep and Oct 2000 HNP had been gathering information on Local Councils 
including:

	174 Councils
	 20 Shire Councils
	 19 Regional Organisations of Councils
	  8 Waste Management Boards
	 26 Related Bodies
	 10 Local Government Associations
	  6 Standing Committees 

Many Councils appear to have similar management structure comprising:

	a	Elected Councillors
	b	Council Management	General Manager		
							Corporate Services
							Community Services
							Environmental Services
							Technical Services
	c	All Members of:
		1	ROCS 
		2	Waste Management Boards
		3	council committees promoted by Associations 

b	2ND LEVEL RESEARCH

HNP is preparing an e-mail contact list of the 174 Councils.
111 have Web sites of which 18 are shared web sites ie part of a general 
community ASP service.

The 2nd level research is to review those Web sites to determine:

1	Level of sophistication Web site
2	Level e-mail contact information
3	Accessibility to Council Event information

RESEARCH RESPONSIBILITIES:

1	LSX prepare list Council Web sites - 4 hrs Sat
2	SDG review each Web site - 40 identified for research
	15 mins allocated for review - 10 hours
	60 minutes allocated for report - 1 hr
3	Time to be completed	17:00 Sun 12/11/2000
	Resources		1	ISP time
				2	Personal time
				3	IPR Report

c	3RD LEVEL RESEARCH

1	Telephone contact to determine e-mail address key management people
2	Preparation questionnaire 
3	Distribution of Questionnaires
4	Follow-up on questionnaire to invite

F	RESPONSIBILITIES

a	TJH 	a	prepare content management overview presentation
		b	prepare management overview powerpoint presentation
		c	manage management overview meetings

b	SDG  	a	contact Council software application developers
		b	research Council Web sites - analyse current status
		c	determine e-mail contacts from Web sites
		d	telephone follow-up questionnaires

c	KDB	a 	enhance OIC Web site for Local Government Project
		b 	develop electronic questionnaire response
		c 	integrate into Council database

b	SGG 	a	e-mail contact lists
		b	preparation Web based questionnaires
		c	provide other courseware providers
		d	manage 12 month education/awareness project
		e	manage software application integration project 

F	COSTINGS

1	Information Gathering
2	Contact Council Application Developers
3	Council Web site reviews
4	Web site development
5	Questionnaires
6	E-mail distributions
7	Telephone follow-up	
8	Preparation Courseware

G	ACCREDITATION

	All figures are units.  Units are 3 minutes

	Meeting 09/11/2000
			Travel	Meeting	Report	Review	Response
	TJH			20	5
	SGG		20 	20		3	

	Meeting 11/11/2000
			Travel	Meeting	Report	Review	Response
	SDG		25	30		10
	LSX		20	30		10
	SGG			30	20

NEXT STEPS

	ACTION					WHO	FOR	WHEN
1	1st research Web sites			SDG	SGG	17:00 Sun 12/11/2000

2	Review strategy				SGG	Mems	Tel      Tue 14/11/2000

3	XML Strategy discussions 		SGG	Attend's 18:00 Wed 15/11/2000
			

SGG
08:33 Sun 12/11/2000	Syd  2089

Back to Index

Member Interest Registration

If you are interested in participating in this Interest Group/Work Group please register:

Membership Number:
Person Registering:
Telephone Number:
E-mail address:

OIC LZIG Roadshow Participation


Amount
Credit Card Number

MM	YY
Credit Card Expiry Date - MM/YY


Name on Card
If Amex, please quote the card's 4 digit ID number.

Membership Application.

If you wish to apply for OIC Membership to participate in this Interest Group/Work Group please complete Membership Application

Back to Index

Participation Credits

It is part of the OIC Charter to provide Intellectual Property Credits for participation and contributions to raising awareness and increasing knowledge of Electronic Information Technology [EIT] issues. Please refer to the Members Mandates.

In recognition of Knowledge as an asset, the OIC has developed an Electronic Participation Credits process.

This process, as part of the Electronic Event Registration Management [EERM] system, records the Intellectual Property Asset for the individual, the organisation which employees the individual and the OIC. There are 7 types of Electronic Credits:

Type Credit

A Accommodation

E Entertainment

F Financial

H Health

L Learning

N Nourishment

T Travel

The Participation Credits for the Local Government & XML Special Interest Group are:

	CONTRIBUTION	A	E	F	H	L	N	T
1	Attending	.1	.1	0	.1	.1	.1	.1
2	Preparation	.2	.2	0	.2	.2	.2	.2
3	Presentations	.3	.3	0	.3	.3	.3	.3
4	Submissions	.2	.2	0	.2	.2	.2	.2
5	Feedback	.1	.1	0	.1	.1	.1	.1

In line with many professional bodies, these credits are on a time basis of 1 unit = 3 minutes. Hence the attendance credits for a OIC Work Group meeting from 17:30 - 20:30 would be 180 mins/3 = 60 units. Thus the accreditation for attending each Work Group meeting would be:

	UNITS	A	E	F	H	L	N	T
Individual	60	6	6	0	6	6	6	6
Organisation	60	6	6	0	6	6	6	6
OIC	60	6	6	0	6	6	6	6

The rules and the value of these Electronic Credits are being defined. However it is envisaged that the Credit system will operate as a similar concept to flybuy credits and Internet electronic credits such as beenz.com.au


Feedback
If you have any comments or issues please send an e-mail to LZIG Feedback

Back to Index

Type	Credit
A	Accommodation
E	Entertainment
F	Financial
H	Health
L	Learning
N	Nourishment
T	Travel