eGovernment

Rabbits and turtles

02/11/2017

Italy’s governmental Digital Transformation Team has announced the first awards following the country-wide hackathon on 7 and 8 October. The first ‘Fast Rabbit’ award goes to Python code that could…

Digitalisation roadmap

01/11/2017

Ministers of the European Union Member States and EFTA countries have reaffirmed their commitment to government modernisation by signing the ‘Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment’ in Tallinn…

All together now

01/11/2017

Sweden’s government digitalisation IT experts from both local and regional public services are organising their second DigiGov conference, which aims to boost government modernisation. The event will…

Smooth operator

31/10/2017

The government of Luxembourg is currently one of the five node operators in a blockchain testbed that aims to build and offer blockchain-as-a-service to companies and public services. The Infrachain…

Reuse and share

31/10/2017

Finland’s Suomi.fi digital government service platform will soon be ready to test federation of its single sign-on eID solution with similarly eIDAS-compliant eID services in other European Union…

A lighthouse list

31/10/2017

FranceConnect, Data.gouv.fr, ‘Tell us once’: brief summaries of these and five other key government digitisation projects in France were published by the government modernisation unit (SGMAP) earlier…

EU tech study tour

30/10/2017

Europe’s technology start-ups would benefit from the use of open ICT standards by public services, according to a report by the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Innovation and…

More than eProcurement

30/10/2017

In December, Romania will begin an overhaul of existing IT systems involved in public procurement, to increase efficiency. The overhaul will be partly financed by the European Regional Development…

“Alt er OK”

26/10/2017

An online dashboard that monitors the main public-sector IT services in Denmark has been unveiled by the country’s Agency for Digitisation (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen - DIGST). The dashboard displays…

eInclusion for elderly

26/10/2017

In Hungary, elderly people in 480 remote villages will soon get Internet access and computers. The aim of helping them to get online is to improve healthcare and provide social services. Over the next…

And then there were ten

26/10/2017

Poland’s central IT system for authenticating and identifying users of online public services passed the European Commission’s conformance tests that took place in September. The test checks for…