"New" group member ...

Hi everyone,

I am now ready to be more active in this IG, after being busy with other 
projects.

I am from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), a national 
research institute in Sweden. This means I am "IT" rather than "EM". 
Three reasons for my interest in EIIF are:

- worked for some time with the defense establishment, on information 
interoperability across administrative borders. A major political cause 
for such interoperability is that smaller European countries foresee 
much more participation in international operations (military or 
humanitarian), and they need IT support for seamless interoperation. The 
major difference between this defense domain and the EM domain is that 
in the defense domain there are accepted reference points for what 
information and service interoperation should be supported (mainly NATO 
standards), but they do not cover everything. An additional challenge is 
that the military are now expected to be able to interoperate with the 
civilian sector (for instance, supporting EM) where there are no clear 
baseline standards at the content level.

- was involved in a project in IT infrastructure for public agencies 
that have to cooperate in the real world -- police, fire fighters, 
hospitals, ... -- where information interchange is a critical problem 
for effective coordination of multi-agency actions.

- have also relationships to the EM sector in Sweden, where modelling 
and standards have been discussed during the last couple of years.

I will in my next message make some comments on what I have seen on the 
mailing list....

/olle

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Olle Olsson   olleo@sics.se   Tel: +46 8 633 15 19  Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
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SICS [Swedish Institute of Computer Science]
Box 1263
SE - 164 29 Kista
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Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2008 13:39:58 UTC