eGovernment

Holistic digital plans

04/12/2017

A new guidance document published by the European Commission aims to help local public services develop all-encompassing digital strategies. Such local strategies should be based on the ditital…

Blockchain opportunities

04/12/2017

The UK government should encourage public services to use blockchain’s distributed ledger technology, the UK parliament’s upper house (the House of Lords) says in a report published on 28 November. A…

Enlisting reuse lists

04/12/2017

The Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) is about to launch a new version of the country’s open data portal to make it easier for public services to share their reusable datasets and documents. The…

Central data exchange

04/12/2017

Denmark’s use of four new data registers related to property registrations will be delayed from May 2018 to May 2019, the country’s Agency for Digitisation (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen - DIGST) has…

Fintech island

04/12/2017

Malta is creating a blockchain laboratory at its Information Technology Agency (MITA), to build up expertise on this technology for use in public services. The government also aims to encourage…

Schedule publication

04/12/2017

The next government of Austria should coax public services to publish their datasets, recommends Digitales Österreich, the government organisation for digitalisation. Clarifying the rules on open data…

Share and reuse

04/12/2017

Bulgaria’s state eGovernment agency SEGA (Държавната агенция „Електронно управление“ ДАЕУ) and Croatia’s Information Systems and Information Technologies Support Agency (Agencija za podršku…

Adding eGovt services

01/12/2017

The Czech Republic will enhance its public administration portal (portal.gov.cz). One of the aims is to make it easier to add existing and future eGovernment services. The new portal system will also…

Targeting smart city residents

01/12/2017

A contest for developers of smartphone apps is being organised by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and Hungary’s state-owned National Information and Communication Services…