My team called for a tender to build a prototype for a Digital Content Exchange using Semantic Web technology 2 months back and we awarded the contract to HP last week. More specifically, it is awarded to Semantic Web team in HP Labs leaded by Brian McBride, the creator of Jena. Oh yea, if you […]
Category: Organizations
Singapore e-Government
A nice article was published on Public Sector Technology & Management, (a site that discuss IT usage in Asia governments) on Singapore e-government. (via InternetPolicy) Amidst the flags and fly pasts, and other very visible signs of four decades of Singaporean nation building, a profound civic achievement deserves the attention of anyone interested in Asian […]
Back from ICANN…
I feel quite bad to controdiact Vint Cerf in the open forum but my comment that whether to have IDN Top Level Domain is an ICANN issues and not IETF was well-received with an applause from the audience. So I am really glad that ICANN board passing the resolution to form a new President committee […]
ICANN again
Khaled Fattal, CEO of MINC gave an presentation of MINC yesterday on MINC. A very nice presentation with a nice story, about involvement of local community, respects of different culture, one that is difficult for people who believe in the bottom-up process to dispute. But he never managed to answer my question what has all […]
ICANN IDN Workshop
I am back in KL today for the ICANN IDN Workshop. Yes, I am one of the unnamed speaker for the morning session chair’ed by Sharil and Vint Cerf. John Klensin basically took over the stage giving a tutorial of the higher level problem, the Internationalization or more accurately the multilingualism of the Internet. John […]
Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team
Press Release about Formation of APEET Singapore, July 19, 2004 – [CNNIC] (China Network Information Center), [JPRS] (Japan Registry Service), [KRNIC] (Korea Network Information Center), [SGNIC] (Singapore Network Information Center) and [TWNIC] (Taiwan Network Information Center) today announced the formation of Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team (APEET), an informal technical project team formed to coordinate […]
Pre-ICANN meeting
I am in Kuala Lumpur this wekend to give an overview of IDN to Government Advisory Committee of ICANN. This ICANN meeting seem to be political charged, surrounding mainly on the 15M USD proposed budget for ICANN and heated discussion in ccNSO. There are also some discussion about new sponsorred TLD and and .net redelegation. […]
Going up to ICANN…
Just concluded a successful APEET meeting in Singapore (thanks you!) and I am getting to leave for Kuala Lumpur in 10mins time. But before I leave, I thought of leaving two interesting news I saw today. First, is a report of Verisign SiteFinder by Steve Crocker (a representive of Security and Stability Advisory Committee of […]
Fahrenheit 911 factchecks
Here are Michael Moore’s extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911. (via Joiito). What it doesn’t say is how Michael strings the facts together in such a way to paint a reality he likes his audience to see. (No, don’t get me wrong…I watched the show in US and love it :-) Incidently, the next few […]
Integrated IT Platform to Make Trade Information Flows More Efficient
Another project, codename ‘InfoPort’, I did in IDA just went public today, announced by our minister Dr. Lee Boon Yang. An integrated IT platform that manages the flow of trade-related information is set to make Singapore more competitive as a world class port and logistics hub. This platform will enable exchange of information between shippers, […]