Joinup

TLS, STARTTLS, PDF/UA

06/06/2018

The Dutch Standardisation Forum (Forum Standaardisatie) plans to add four standards to the list of open standards to be used by government IT systems, and to drop one existing standard. The Forum is…

Linked data at its core

30/05/2018

The next challenge for Joinup, the European Commission’s community of practice on government digitisation, is to make its wealth of knowledge easier to access. According to Sander van Dooren, an…

From EIF to BelgIF

11/05/2018

The complexity of Belgium’s government increases the costs of eGovernment services and lowers their effectiveness and efficiency, says Luc Van Tilborgh, eGovernment specialist for the DG Digital…

For very large archives

25/04/2018

The first stable version of VITAM, an open source software solution to securely manage very large archives, was published by the French government in March. The development is a joint project by the…

Implementation samples

24/04/2018

On 2 March, the Dutch Standardisation Forum (Forum Standaardisatie) published 12 case studies proving the benefits of open ICT standards. The organisation’s publication targets government decision…

Release changelogs

24/04/2018

The European Commission has installed an update to Joinup, its collaboration platform for eGovernment professionals. The update includes many improvements and bugfixes that together focus on improving…

Local Government Assoc.

23/04/2018

The Local Government Association (LGA) is about to update its map of shared services. The map aggregates all shared services for local governments in England, including their ICT and digital services.…

Reusable solutions

19/04/2018

Portal Administración Electrónica (PAE), Spain’s eGovernment portal, now comes with improved search capabilities – including for the reusable IT solutions made available by the country’s technology…