General information
Name of the solution: Governance Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit
Solution's owner: DIGIT, Interoperable Europe Initiative
It is a user-friendly online questionnaire, designed as a self-assessment tool to assist public service owners to evaluate key interoperability aspects of their digital public service.
Not only can GIQAT be used to assess the interoperability of any public service – from open data portals, and e-voting platforms, to public procurement services, and much more – it is applicable to services at all levels of government (international, national, regional, and local).
The Governance Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit implements the following:
Principles
Interoperability layers
Governance Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit implements the following EIF recommendations as explained below:
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Recommendation 1 | Subsidiarity and proportionality
GIQAT is a self-assessment tool, designed for public service owners to evaluate key governance interoperability aspects of their digital public service.
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Recommendation 2 | Openness
Question B.3.2 of the GIQAT questionnaire assesses if the data owner of the service is also the owner of the solution.
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Recommendation 9 | Technological neutrality and data portability
Question B.9 of the GIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent are shared platforms in place for regulating the collaboration with internal/external peers exchanging data, information or knowledge in the service.
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Recommendation 15 | Security and privacy
Question B.6 of the GIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent are in the service the roles to ensure the functioning and implementation of an interoperability framework.
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Recommendation 28 | Organisational interoperability
Question C.2 of the GIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent is the service compliant with an existing quality assurance documentation on how to achieve interoperability.