Event Agenda

Date and Time: December 1, 2009 from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm

 

Location: K&L Gates Washington HQ, 1601 K St, NW, Washington, DC 20006 or virtually 

 

Purpose: eCitizen will host discussions relating to the development and implementation by government, citizens and companies of technologies that together comprise an Open, Public and Integrated Architecture (OPIA) which is interoperable across the business, legal, and technological layers. The overall goal is to enhance participants' understanding of current trends, share information and emerging best practices and to identify next steps to achieving OPIA.

 

 

1:00 pm EST

Standard Business Reporting for Regulatory Requirement

 

Discussion relating to use of standard formats for financial reporting.  Businesses and governments are increasingly relying on standardized data formats for more efficient, accurate, timely and cost effective financial and regulatory reporting. This session willl provide information regarding both the processes associated with Standard Business Reporting (SBR), and its implications.  Case studies will focus on the use of SBR by the SEC, FFEIC, in House Oversight model language, for state and municipal bond reporting, and in Australia. 

 

Invited participants include representatives from public sector (SEC, FDIC, House Oversight, and FRB); non-profit and academic sector (XBRL.us, XBRL.org, Sloan, RISKI, and OMBWatch); and from the for commercial sector (IBM, PWC, SAIC) 

 

(Please note that participation does not imply an endorsement of any organization or any statements).

 

2:30pm

Second Generation XML for Expressions of Law 

 

Discussion relating to application of OPIA in the work of the Legislative and Executive branches.  Citizens are expecting government to become more transparent, efficient, and open.  To fulfill these expectations and to achieve maximum efficiency, accountabililty and oversight, improved electronic formats for expressions of law are needed. Electronic formats for legislation and regulation will (i) allow for richer and more accurate public discussion of pending legislation and regulations (ii) permit superior fiscal and performance oversight, (iii) better enable legal review and auditing of automated systems, (iv) provide a more structured and interoperable standard for expressions of law, and (v) enhance streamlined drafting and publishing process. This session will introduce the necessary steps to integrate OPIA into existing processes, including easy to use citation systems, new ways to ensure the authentic presentation of government legal documents and paths for developing easy to implement open standards.

 

4:00 pm

Business, Legal and Technical Open Architectures and Public Infrastructures for Identity

 

Discussion of the OPIAs that can support a broad range of online commercial transactions and social interactions and relationships, and enable new models of work, play and life.  OPIA must appropriately address and integrate issues arising in law, technology and business to support robust, open and accessible systems that will not be prone to system failures such as frauds errors and other problems.  This Discussion will focus on examples of integrated architectures and a "charrette" design session for participants to collaboratively create examples of open architectures at the business, legal and technology layers.  This session will demonstrate how OPIA can enhance the constructive engagement of attorneys, technologists and executives in coordinated, simple ways, and how it can help make legal agreements and technology designs stronger and better tailored to specific programs, contexts and circumstances at play.  The session will be attended by participants both live and remotely via the eCitizen Virtual Meeting Service.  

 

 

6:30

Reception for the celebration of the launch of the eCitizen Foundation