In the context of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission published the second progress report on the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government.
The declaration was signed on the 8th of December 2020 by all EU Member States. The document builds on the political commitments of the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment and it takes the user-centricity principles that were formulated a step further by strengthening the pioneering role of public administrations in the value-based digital transformation.
This second edition of the report provides an overview of Member States’ performance and actions with regard to the second year of implementation of their commitments made in the Declaration. In addition, it offers a country-level overview of the results for each of the 22 Policy Actions in the Declaration, also compared to last year, as well as an overview of the good practices in the implementation of such policy actions.
The report shows positive trends across most Policy Areas, notably the following:
- Member States have continued to put in place strategies, projects and councils to promote fundamental rights and democratic values in the digital sphere. They have increasingly created platforms to provide information and foster debate on fundamental rights (Policy Area 1).
- Member States have introduced new strategies and initiatives such as trainings, to increase their citizens digital skills and competences. This contributes to empowerment and digital literacy of citizens, aligning with the Communication on Attracting skills and talent to the EU of April 2022 (Policy Area 3).
- Member States are putting in place human-centred systems and innovative technologies in the public sector. This is a key pillar in the proposed Interoperable Europe Act, aiming at scaling up interoperability across the public administrations in Europe (Policy Area 6).
Please go check out the full report here below!