Japan picks Sun for e-governance
Japan has chosen Sun Microsystems to create an open, web 2.0 architecture that will better leverage IT to deliver government services to citizens.
Sun explained that governments around the globe are keen to use IT to give their constituents a single point of access to available governmental services. Open Source technologies, such as the OpenSolaris operating system (OS), help foster an ecosystem of developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) that can be leveraged by governments as it looks to scale the initiative and provide more services to the country.
The government of Japan has been exploring ways to provide electronic government services for many years, which led to the formulation of the 'New IT Reform Strategy' in January 2006. The strategy has a goal of making 50 per cent of all applications and filings for government agencies to be submitted online by 2010.
Sun was chosen to create an integrated and secure network, called Trusted Network, which will help enable a one-stop service infrastructure. The complete Sun solution is comprised of OpenSolaris OS, Sun Java System Identity Manager software, Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite and Sun Ray thin clients.
