John Borras

John Borras has spent the majority of his career working on the development of ICT systems, policies, strategies and procedures for central and local government in the United Kingdom. He took early retirement from the Civil Service in 2006 after 38 years service and has since been a self-employed consultant. He is currently Operations Manager of Pensive SA and Chairman of their Board of Directors. John has an extensive knowledge of a wide range of issues relating to e-government and e-voting at the business, information and technical levels. He worked in the Office of e-Envoy (and subsequently the Cabinet Office’s e-Government Unit) where he was the Director of Technology, responsible for the UK’s e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) and other e-government and e-voting technical policies and standards. He has represented the UK government on various international working groups, developing e-government and e-voting strategies, data interchange procedures and standards, and enterprise architectures. He is a past Director of OASIS and is the current chair of the OASIS eGov Member Section and the OASIS Technical Committee on e-voting standards. He has previously chaired the committee on e-government standards.