Joinup glossary
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e-Government is about using the tools and systems made possible by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to provide better public services to citizens and businesses. ICTs are already widely used by government bodies, just as in enterprises, but e-Government involves much more than just the tools.
The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is a set of guidelines and recommendations developed by the European Commission for public administrations in Europe on how to set cross-border and cross-sector digital interoperable digital solutions based on open standards and specifications.
The EIF Online Assistant helps users to find operational solutions that cover the alignment and implementation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and filter them by attributes.
The EIF Toolbox is designed as a guidance for national public administrations to equip them with the tools necessary to align their National Interoperability Frameworks (NIFs) with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to promote interoperability at national and European level.
The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA) is an architecture content metamodel defining the most salient architectural building blocks (ABBs) needed to build interoperable e-Government systems. EIRA provides a common terminology that can be used by people working for public administrations in various architecture and system development tasks.
ePractice brought together policy makers and practitioners in the fields of eGovernment, eHealth and eInclusion, and helped them set up online communities to further pursue their common interests. In 2014 the European Commission migrated the ePractice platform to the Joinup platform.
EU Login is the European Commission’s user authentication service. It allows authorised users to access a wide range of Commission web services, using a single email address and password. Joinup requires the use of an EU Login account to register and sign in on the platform.
The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is the European Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) licence. It has been created on the initiative of the European Commission. It is now delivered in 23 original linguistic versions and can be used by anyone for software distribution. The EUPL is OSI certified and considered as a Free Software Licence by the Free Software Foundation.
Europa Analytics is the European Commission’s service that monitors and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the Commission's websites on Europa. Both the infrastructure and software are under the full control of the European Commission and comply with the current EU data protection legislation. Joinup uses Europa Analytics for the platform’s web analytics requirements.
An event is an organised activity at a specific time and place (e.g., a meeting, a workshop, a webinar). Any registered user can create events to be published on the platform.