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Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
This announcement will hopefully be issued in many countries - the many reasons for doing it are so very obvious - for anyone wanting to look at the good-for-society-at-large aspects. But even when the simple and cheap tools are there we will need resolute action to get to the tipping point. Change resistance is massive in this particular area and ...
02 January 2009
Scanning paper invoices makes invoicing even less green. Staying with structured data is not consuming much of storage and bandwidth - compared to pictures. Nokia is showing the way elsewhere..
From fresh paper. Emphasis mine: "E-Identity in a network perspective: re-use what’s already there A new paradigm for identity verification services (1 December 2008) Authors: Leendert Bottelberghs MSc, Senior Consultant at Innopay Douwe Lycklama MSc, Partner at Innopay Introduction The online verification of identities (of both person a...
Identity 2.0 presentation. Fascinating style - useful content indeed. We need to address both sides of the coin: 1. the tool, 2. the process how this is attached - when we talk about coming federated strong id for banking, many public and private sector services. If these will become easy and cheap enough - they can also bring security and conveni...
29 December 2008
Europe 17.12.2008 Dear Santa, We have been really nice, technology-neutral and hardworking Experts this year and look forward to You bringing us a few presents to play around with in 2009. The first wish is a book - more precisely a handbook. We namely wrote a letter to the EU Commission in July and asked for Equal Treatment of paper and e-invo...
17 December 2008
Had a discussion last week with a representative of a consumer organization at a conference in Brussels. It did strike me - again - how little interest these organizations have to further cost cutting in enterprises - in this case by moving to e-invoicing. The cost of paper invoicing to the consumer segment in EU can be estimated to over 40bn€ a y...
14 December 2008
EU published some figures on cost of handling cash - 50bn per year - and the consumer pays every cent of it - without knowing how much we would all save by keeping money in digital form all the way with the help of plastic cards (which of course will disappear when their functionality moves to mobile phones in due course). It would be interesting ...
09 December 2008
Mr Somebody Else will not do it We know that the best possible thing we can do right now in the area of digitalization and productivity is to get rid of paper based invoicing - move to structured formats (not e-mail). Savings are massive - to say the least, the environment needs it (2,8m tons of CO2 to be eliminated), learning needs it, the real t...
30 November 2008
https://www.finextra.com/fullfeature.asp?id=1020
It has been said many times that only if banks come together and join force also with traditional service providers will we get a real take-up of e-invoicing. SWIFT has now published a report saying in essence that 28 out of 29 banks replying to questionnaire have already launched e-invoicing or plan to do so. Networking model naturally needed - t...
28 November 2008
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