On the 26th and 27th of May the ISA Programme will visit the Swedish eGovernment delegation (E-delegationen) to exchange ideas and best practices on semantic interoperability, open data, catalogue of services and base registries. This in light of the European Commission’s initiative to foster the interoperability of interconnected e-government systems (ISA action 1.1), the re-use of open government data (ISA action 1.15), to achieve a certain level of harmonisation around national and European service catalogues (ISA Action 1.3) and to enable the opening up of base registries across the EU and across different sectors (ISA Action 1.2).
The ISA Programme is very interested to see the development of national initiatives on semantic interoperability, open data, catalogue of services and base registries and how they might contribute to an interoperable Europe. The Swedish E-delegationen has developed several initiatives (vocabularies, service catalogue and guidelines) for achieving semantic interoperability, therefore this merits a visit. The purpose of the visit will be to learn from the Swedish interoperability initiatives, explore the re-use of semantic assets and to show how existing national initiatives can be developed in line with for instance the ISA core vocabularies.
Swedish eGovernment:
To strengthen the development of eGovernment and create good opportunities for inter-agency coordination, a delegation for eGovernment is being established. The Swedish government consists out of 16 agencies which are represented in the eGovernment. The delegation is to
- Strengthen the development of eGovernment and create good opportunities for inter-agency coordination;
- To propose a strategy for the government agencies work on eGovernment;
- To coordinate specific IT standardisation issues and assist the Government in the international work in this area.
ISA programme: Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations
Administrative procedures have the reputation of being lengthy, time-consuming and costly. Electronic collaboration between public administrations can make these procedures quicker, simpler and cheaper for all parties concerned, in particular when transactions need to be done cross-border and/or cross-sector.
The European Commission’s ISA programme supports such electronic collaboration. Through its more than 40 actions it provides tools, services and frameworks for the modernisation of public administrations in Europe, across e-borders and sectors. The developed services and tools are mostly available to interested public administrations for free.