The Sharing and Reuse Action aims at supporting and enabling public administrations to share and reuse IT solutions in order to provide electronic services to citizens. Some public administrations and…
Across the European Union, public services are adopting policies and practices that foster collaboration and the sharing and reuse of IT solutions, reflecting the goals set out in the Sharing and…
Public services that organise hackathons can expect an influx of fresh ideas and will see links with other public sector organisations improve, a survey commissioned by the European Commission shows.…
The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has published cross-governmental API data and standards to help public services share and reuse technology, and to make better use of data. “API standards…
The government of Bulgaria wants the country’s public services to switch to an electronic document workflow and stop using paper for the exchange of information. By 1 November, all public services…
The government of Latvia is encouraging the country’s public services to make open data increasingly available. At a cabinet meeting earlier this month seven ministries, including Defence, Justice and…
Romania’s Ministry of Communications and Information Society is launching two “big data” projects to make public services more efficient, improve tax collection and prevent fraud. The ministry wants…
Following the success of its first open source bug bounty, the European Commission is preparing a second, larger project. As well as paying software hackers to uncover bugs, the EC is also considering…
Portugal has revised its National Digital Interoperability Regulation (RNID) “to align with European guidelines”, reports the country’s Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a…
The cities of Barcelona and Amsterdam are to pilot the use of blockchain technology to give citizens more control over their online data. The EUR 5 million Horizon 20202 research project, named Decode…
Software developers working for the governments of Canada and the Netherlands are working to join their government’ collaboration portals, GCconnex/GCcollab and Pleio respectively. Both platforms are…
