Peter Brown Nomination Acceptance

I would like to put my name forward as a candidate for the OASIS eGov Member Section Steering Committee

I confirm that I accept the nomination and that I am able to meet the commitments outlined in the election notice.

Personal Statement Peter is past Chairman and current Secretary of the Board of OASIS. He is an official of the European Parliament currently on long-term unpaid leave of absence. During this period, he founded and managed Pensive, a Belgium-based software company for information-driven enterprise and is currently based in Los Angeles and working as an independent consultant. Before founding Pensive, Peter worked with the Austrian Government's EU eGovernment Strategy Unit, in the Federal Chancellery, as a senior adviser where he promoted work on pan- European eGovernment services, electronic identity management and EU "Information Society" policies.

Peter's areas of professional interest cover the role and use of standards in public administration; semantic technologies and interaction design; identity management and trust; Service-Oriented Architecture; Cloud Computing; Smart Grid standards; Information Management.

Peter's professional career from 1984 to 2005 has been working in the European public service - for the Council of Europe until 1989 and then for the European Parliament, where his work over 16 years has covered all aspects of the organization's work, from running the leader's office ('Cabinet') of the largest political group, acting as a political adviser, developing (pre-Web) online information networks, through to developing organization-wide information architecture, policy advisor to the Parliament’s Secretary General, running an operational IT unit and involving the Parliament in standards and consortium work.

Peter is an active member of OASIS and co-editor of the SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) and Reference Architecture Foundation (SOA-RAF) and, most recently, the Transformational Government Framework (TGF).

Peter is an accomplished and published author as well as a regular keynote speaker and contributor to conferences throughout Europe and North America.

Peter F Brown Independent Consultant Using Information Technologies to Empower and Transform www.peterfbrown.com P.O. Box 49719, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA Tel: +1.310.694.2278