GOL-IN 2003 Ottawa Meeting Summary

By Hyeon-Kon Kim

The GOL International Network meeting took place from June 4-6 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Nineteen delegates from twelve countries (including the OECD) attended. The meeting was chaired by the head of Korea's National Computerization Agency, Dr. Sam Young Suh

Day 1: Canadian Study Tour
- the Canada Site and Citizen Relations Management
- the Business Gateway and Bizpal
- the Seniors Cluster
- e-pass

Day 2: Joint GOL IN Projects
- Open Source (Denmark)
- Strategic Management (Korea)
- Privacy (Canada)
- XML (USA)
- Web Services (Sweden)
- mGovernment (Korea/Sweden)
- Measurement (USA)

Day 3: Country Reports

Next Year: GOL IN 2004 in Sweden

Next year's conference will be hosted by Sweden and chaired again by Korea. Projects on Web Services and mGovernment will continue. The Strategic Management project will focus on cross-agency management, led by Korea. Norway will lead a new project on portals, and Mexico will scope out work on CRM. The US work on measurement will be expanded to include other countries.

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