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More than ever, Governments and Businesses the world over need to ensure strong business cases for IT investments that are sustainable and truly deliver productivity improvements.

The Government of Malta is investing significantly in a number of ICT solutions addressing its strategic business requirements. To make sure the highest returns are reaped from technology investments, Government has established a number of technology strategic principles to make its technology choices. Certainly, Government has a role to play in leading by example and using its purchasing power to influence the products developed by technology providers for the benefit of the overall economy.

The National Information Society Advisory Council session that will be held on October 22nd, 9.30am to 12.30pm at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, will tackle the following subjects:

• Government’s position on Open Standards and Open Source, including the presentation of Government’s Strategy on Open Source which will introduce high level principles intended to facilitate the accelerated, non-intrusive adoption of Open Source within Government.
• Comprehensive insight on the latest developments and applications of Open Source software, and sharing of the most current research on open source from a top expert in the field from Gartner.
•  The most current Open Source case studies of Governments and business across the globe will be presented, giving real client experiences on the adoption and leverage of Open Source technologies for higher business value.

The session will be opened by Austin Gatt, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications. Presentations from key speakers and experts in open source and open standards from the Malta IT Agency and Gartner will follow. An open discussion will be held at the end of the session.

This session is ideal for ICT and ICT-using companies, non-governmental organisations, and students following tertiary studies in ICT.

Click here to view the White Paper.

What: eSymposium

When: 26 October 2010, 11:00 am (ET)

Where: Online

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Join us in October for an exciting and engaging conversation about identity and access management. Our speakers will discuss how you can achieve compliance through automated identity and access governance, as well as mitigate risk by implementing policies and technologies. They will also explain the features and benefits of IAM solutions, and give some real world examples and scenarios.

Please join us on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 for this interactive, live event!

Risk plays a critical role in business today.

Almost every business decision requires executives and managers to balance risk and reward. Effectively managing the business risks is essential to an enterprise’s success. Too often, IT risk (business risk related to the use of IT) is overlooked or relegated to technical specialists outside the boardroom.

ISACA’s newest virtual seminar “Managing IT Enterprise Risk” takes a practical approach to risk by examining the topic in three different ways.

• First, it looks at the enterprise to determine how best to manage security risks within and, perhaps more importantly, outside the enterprise.
• Next, the seminar considers how to assess risk and the unique problems inherent with the human factor.
• Finally, the seminar considers the strategic issues associated with risk and the balance between meeting business goals while minimizing potential loss and unintended consequences.

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