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Peter F Brown

Transforming Our Relationships With Information Technologies
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Below is an overview of some of the projects in which I am currently engaged.
 

Trusted Online Identity

In April 2011, President Obama signalled a courageous policy initiative when he signed the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (NSTIC).

I took part in the first workshop of the program concerned, appropriately enough, with how to get the program up and running and in particular, how to go about establishing a governance infrastructure that would represent the vasy array of stakeholders involved as well as provide quality management oversight of the program. read more...

Pattern Languages
 

A Pattern Language provides a mechanism for analysing recurrent problems; capturing those problems; and defining archetypal solutions.

The value of a Pattern Language is that remains readable and engaging whilst providing basic hooks for further machine processing. read more...

Cloud Computing

 

Responses to the need for policy and standards in cloud computing have usually been driven by national considerations read more...

Transformational Government
 
"Transformational Government" is a managed process of ICT-enabled change in the public sector. It deliberately avoids describing some perfect “end-state” for government, and with reason. read more...
Analogue-Digital Gap

The shift from analogue to digital is a "one-way street" - once an artifact from the real-world has been digitised and the original destroyed (say, for example, in digital archiving), there is no going back. But where do you 'draw the line' between detail to be captured and optimisation for digial storage?

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Service-Oriented Architecture

 

SOA, despite what you might be led to believe, is not a technology - it is a standard, a paradigm for organizing and using distributed capabilities that are governed and run under different ownership domains.

 

It is relevant in areas as diverse as identity management, cloud computing and emerging Smart Grid infrastructures. read more...

Privacy Management

I was an early advocate of "user-centric" model of personal data and privacy management, informed by much of my work with the Austrian Government's innovative programme, the so-called "Citizen's Card".

Information Modelling and Semantics

 

Underpinning all my work - and appropriately at the bottom of this stack! - is a rigorous concern about semantics and semiotics - from the seemingly mundane to complex information modelling issues. My first extensive study of these areas was published by Wiley in 2003 as "Information Architecture with XML". Despite the title, the book was mainly concerned with how information modelling issues are not about technology but about how we view and model the world (or those parts of it relevant for our business or other needs) - and thus, the quality of any technology solution will only be a reflection of the effort put in by all to ensure that the technology accurately models that world.