XML on the Desktop: Enabling eGovernment Services World Wide

This session will provide base line information on how native XML

customer-defined schema support in Office applications is enabling XML based

eGovernment interests from Europe, Asia, South and North America. Concrete

and deployed examples will be shared to spark a new but real perspective on

leveraging popular and user-friendly desktop applications to become, via XML

and Web Services, the front-end to Government back-end systems. In short,

real and effective solutions to enabling eGov Services in Government to

Citizens, Government to Businesses and Government to Government scenarios.