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White Paper In the OGC's consensus process, over 250 government, private sector, and academic organizations cooperatively define, develop, test, document, validate and approve interface and encoding standards that overcome the interoperability problems. [01 Sep 2005]
ITIL Refresh Statement From OGC
White Paper OGC and its partners in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) are working together to improve the content of the publications and qualifications. After thorough collation and correlation of findings that emerged from the various threads of the... [16 Mar 2006]
OGC Delivers GI Interoperability and Industry Coordination
White Paper OGC is promoting interoperable geoprocessing to these user communities worldwide and encouraging technology providers worldwide to enter through the doors that the OpenGIS Project is opening. Through the OpenGIS Project and advances in GPS, Earth... [01 Sep 2005]
Overview of OGC's Interoperability Program
White Paper OGC is supporting this effort by participating in the development of the logical model for data content standards for Road and Air Transportation, by developing a mechanism to generate XML from the logical models, and by implementing prototypical... [01 Sep 2005]
Value for Money Measurement: OGC Business Guidance
White Paper This paper describes the methodologies for quantifying value for money gains from procurement activity in central civil government in England. The Gershon Review examined the whole process of acquisition from third parties, including goods services... [29 Apr 2005]
OGC: A Framework for Geospatial and Statistical Information Integration
White Paper The premise of this paper is that statisticians and all who rely on their work will benefit from the provision of services for integrating geospatial and statistical information. Last year's conference summary report states that GIS was found to be... [01 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Gateway Reviews
Cheat Sheet The OGC is currently appealing against the ruling. The OGC describes the process as 'peer review', with independent experts from outside the project examining progress and how likely a project is to reach a successful conclusion. [07 Jun 2007]
Results of Public Consultations: ITIL Refresh
White Paper The UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) launched a project to define the scope and development plans for a new version of ITIL best practice guidance. During first quarter 2005, the OGC undertook an extensive worldwide public consultation... [16 Mar 2006]
£1.6bn saved by 'smart' government spending
News Savings of £1.6bn on government spending have been achieved since the formation of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), according to a new report by parliamentary watchdog the National Audit Office. [12 Mar 2004]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is urging public sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to slash carbon emissions and cost. The OGC is the Treasury office responsible for driving efficiency in public sector spending and says... [22 May 2008]
UK government talks licences with Microsoft
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has today confirmed reports that it is in talks with Microsoft to bring down the rocketing government licence bill for Microsoft software. A report in the The Times over the weekend quoted government insiders... [26 Nov 2001]
Open source gets thumbs-up - new government report
News Today, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published a report saying open-source software is now a genuine competitor to Microsoft in the public sector. After a running a series of pilots with government bodies, in conjunction with IBM and Sun... [28 Oct 2004]
Office of Government Commerce
White Paper The Office of Government Commerce -OGC- has been set up to lead a wide-ranging programme to modernise procurement in UK government, and deliver substantial value for money improvements. Two pilot projects are currently being undertaken by OGC: an... [20 May 2005]
Critical Infrastructure Collaborative Environment Architecture: Enterprise Viewpoint
White Paper The OGC Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative is part of the OGC's Interoperability Program: a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to deliver prototype technologies and proven candidate specifications... [01 Sep 2005]
Critical Infrastructure Collaborative Environment Architecture: Information Viewpoint
White Paper The OGC Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative is part of the OGC's Interoperability Program: a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to deliver prototype technologies and proven candidate specifications... [01 Sep 2005]
