What an engaging discussion on digital readiness! Our SEMIC pre-conference workshop – Digital-ready policymaking and semantics – took place on 26 June in Brussels. We spent a great afternoon learning from leading experts across Europe and exchanging experiences with national practitioners. Below you can check the highlights from this event!
The SEMIC conference is DG DIGIT’s flagship event on semantic technologies. This year’s event was organised in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and Digital Flanders, and focused on the Interoperable Europe Act and its implementation.
Highlights
The workshop covered topics with highly practical implications. Participants learned about approaches in Denmark and Germany to realising the vision of digital-ready policymaking. The OECD presented an approach that prioritises the revision of existing legislation to identify the files where the digital readiness of a jurisdiction could be enhanced. The presentation from Germany’s national DigitalService underscored the importance of visualising the processes impacted by a policy to foster user centricity. Finally, the University of Jena presented their work on leveraging artificial intelligence and semantics to automate the annotation of processes that deliver public services and identify their legal basis.
The second part of the workshop focused on a use case of applying semantics in digital-ready policymaking – regulatory reporting. The experts discussed:
- the use of AI in the detection and annotation of reporting requirements, as well as its risks and limitations;
- an approach to the standardisation of reporting requirements and their integration in software for editing legislation (LEOS);
- the use of data spaces to reduce reporting burden.
Missed the workshop? The recording and follow-up resources will be available soon. You can also visit SEMIC’s page for more information.
