About the seminar

Semantic and Organisational Interoperability as a Challenge for Public Administrations

Public administrations in Europe and worldwide are under increasing pressure to achieve more and more with less and less money and resources. Digitisation is praised as a tool for achieving cost effectiveness in the delivery of public services. The essence of making e-government systems efficient and effective lies in the sharing and connecting of different sources of information, namely intelligent interoperability solutions.

Apart from technical aspects, the main difficulties lie in the organisational and especially in the semantic interoperability. For organisational interoperability, administrations from different levels, backgrounds or countries, need to cooperate. Agreeing on common standards is a special task, especially when different languages and legal backgrounds are concerned. When exchanging sensitive citizen data, privacy matters and IT-Security aspects need to be carefully taken into account.

Tailor Technical and Inter-Institutional Solutions

Countries at the forefront of digitisation of public services have a special interest in the development and project management of complex interoperability solutions which require high expertise and collaboration between different public institutions.

This seminar will provide you with best cases and proven solutions by innovative frontrunner countries like the Baltic, Benelux and Scandinavian states. Learn how the design and use of basic data models can facilitate cross-border interoperability. Find out how technical building blocks can be tested on their executability on administrative procedures. Learn how e-Estonia deals with European core vocabularies to achieve the goal of paperless government services. Get first-hand information from the European Commission on reusable, highly applicable (meta)data standards. Learn more on how designing data exchange standards can support the “once only” principle to simplify administrative procedures.

Please find the agenda and detailed information in the brochure.

Key topics

• How to use Core Vocabulary Solutions to get better digital public services

• Handling data protection in e-government

• How to evolve data exchange standards to achieve semantic interoperability

• Technical building blocks to enhance cross-border interoperability

What will you learn at this seminar?

• What are the main organisational, political and technological challenges in implementing interoperability solutions for public administrations in Europe?
• What are the costs and benefits in inter-institutional and cross-border interoperability cooperation?
• What are the pitfalls and opportunities that come with the revision of the European Interoperability Framework?
• How can the European Interoperability Framework be implemented and also shaped from a national perspective?
• What is the added value of Core Public Service Vocabularies?
• What are measuring methods to find out the quality of interconnected public services?
• How can interoperable administrative procedures be tested in advance to check their feasibility?
• How to achieve semantic interoperability by evolving data exchange standards?
• How to use technical building blocks to enhance cross-border interoperability of existing national solutions?
• What legal aspects like data protection need to be taken into account?
• How to deal with cybersecurity as one of the main challenges in interoperability?
• How to use common specifications and standards in e-Procurement?
• What can be learnt in terms of interoperability from the eHealth, e-Procurement and e-Security and -Defence Sector?

Benefit from our early booking rate until 22nd July!

For direct registration please use the online booking form.

Expected Participants:

Private and public sector, academia.

State: Open