eGovernment

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…

Open data education

25/10/2017

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia hopes to encourage school and university students to use and reuse government open data. Speaking at the Public Sector Open Data Festival in…

Portal is mandatory

25/10/2017

Making it mandatory for companies and organisations to communicate electronically with public services is saving the government of the Slovak Republic millions in postage. As of 1 July, companies and…

Fostering reuse of ICT

10/10/2017

Hungary is redoubling its efforts to modernise its public services. A HUF 2.5 billion (about EUR 8 million) grant from the European Social Fund is to be used for a digitisation drive to build…

The heart of democracy

10/10/2017

The Council of Europe (CoE) is calling on public authorities to improve citizen participation. In new guidelines adopted last week, the CoE encourages authorities to provide up-to-date information…