This table here below aims at providing an overview of all the initiatives, such as the political communications, guidelines, and legislation, related to interoperability that have been put in place in Slovakia.
National Interoperability Framework
The National Interoperability Framework (NIF) is a set of standards, policies, and guidelines that ensure that information and communication technology (ICT) systems can communicate and share data seamlessly. It promotes the development of interoperable systems that facilitate data exchange and collaboration between different organizations and levels of government. The NIF provides a common language and a framework for ensuring that ICT solutions are compatible, secure, and reliable, which enhances the efficiency of public services and improves citizen outcomes.
Good Practices
This section provides examples at the national level in line with a selection of different thematic areas of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). Further initiatives and good practices are available in the country’s Digital Public Administration Factsheet.
In Slovakia, all major IT projects undergo a standard evaluation procedure. Since part of the methodology is quantitative justification of the deliverables, user-centricity becomes a key factor in decision-making and approvals. Moreover, a new methodology with requirements on UX standards has been adopted, and provisions on enhancing user experience have been included within the Act on Information Technologies in Public Administration (no. 95/2019 Coll.) and the Framework for Electronicisation of the Public Administration Agenda (no. 547/2021 Coll).
Slovakia has a digital preservation strategy for the long-term preservation of information owned and managed by public administrations. The strategy aims to maintain long-term access to digital resources and ensure continued access to digital objects managed in a purpose-built preservation system. This strategy is in line with the specifications on the lifecycles of the services and systems employed by the public sector.
Interoperability of public services is to a great extent ensured through several instruments, from a central Act on eGovernment Services to organisational frameworks and an extensive central collection of shared building blocks. The use of such frameworks is obligatory for all levels of the public administration, and municipalities are helped to comply through the IaaS platform. MIRDI SR, as the management body of ICT administration, ensures the proper and effective performance of management in the administration of information technologies for the public administration, according to Act no. 95/2019 Coll. It also supports in achieving the goals of informatisation and development of public administration information technologies, which result from the national concept and other conceptual and strategic documents with nationwide scope. The legal means to achieve this purpose are, in particular, the monitoring of management performance in the administration of public administration information technologies for the purpose of monitoring the current state of ICT used by the public administration.