Japan publishes comment results on Individual Number Card order and standards
The Digital Agency has published on e-Gov the results of its call for opinions on two drafts, its announcement says: a partial revision of the order on the provision of individual numbers, Individual Number Cards and specific personal information under the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, and a partial revision of the technical standards for Individual Number Cards. The announcement links to the results and to the agency's earlier call for public comments. It does not say what the drafts change or how many comments were received.
The Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi has set up TAMM Global to take the emirate's TAMM government services platform to other governments, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said on 16 October. The government describes the firm as an independent private-sector company that will license the platform's architecture and apply the implementation methodologies that Abu Dhabi used to build TAMM. According to the government, TAMM brings together more than 1,200 public and private sector services and has cut the cost of providing services by 30 per cent. Neither the release nor The National's report named any client countries or gave the company's ownership structure.
Ethiopia has joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), according to ITWeb Africa, which reported a press conference on the sidelines of the Ethiopia Finance Forum in Addis Ababa. PAPSS was developed under the auspices of Afreximbank, the African Union and the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. It removes reliance on third-party currencies such as the US dollar. Ethiopian financial institutions can connect to the network, but operational access depends on implementation by each institution, TechAfrica News reports. As of 18 October, neither the National Bank of Ethiopia nor PAPSS listed a release on the move.
A cybersecurity incident has hit IT systems and websites that BAE Systems runs for the judiciary's Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), the Administrative Office of the US Courts said on 15 October. The BNC produces and sends notices for all federal bankruptcy courts, and that work has stopped. The sites bnc.uscourts.gov, bankruptcynotices.uscourts.gov and notices.uscourts.gov, and the National Creditor Registration Service, are unavailable. As of 18 October the office had given no restoration date. It did not say whether data was stolen, The Record reports; a BAE spokesperson told The Record the incident is "isolated to the BNC system". BAE is investigating and working to restore operations, the office said.
Dr Sajjad Babamaleki's Re-architecting Government, Volume I is available on Leanpub, as volume one of what his author page calls "a two-volume work". Subtitled "Redesigning Administrative Decisions: A Method for the Digital Transformation of Government", it sets out the Administrative Decision Re-architecture Method, which "turns every change into a versioned, reviewable decision file". It draws on cases from investigations, audits and court decisions, including Australia's Robodebt scheme and the Dutch childcare benefits affair, and a fictional teaching case, the city of Sepidar, carries the method from start to finish. It offers eleven working tools, among them a problem charter, an evidence ledger and an AI use card, and closes with the Decision Change Sheet, "a one-page standard of ten lines". It is aimed at public managers, digital service teams, regulators and advisers. The page lists it as complete and "Last updated on 2026-10-11".
