Sharing and Reuse of IT solutions

Intuitive principles

30/05/2018

Conferences and workshops on government digitisation inherently manifest the recommendations and guidelines of the European Commission’s Sharing and Reuse Framework for IT Solutions; to spur public…

Open online courses

26/04/2018

Sharing and reuse of ICT solutions is a common theme in digital skills training programmes for public services, a brief inventory of initiatives in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom…

Increasingly aware

14/03/2018

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…

Build a community

09/03/2018

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.…

Seamless services

14/02/2018

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…

Sets November deadline

14/02/2018

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…

Business opportunities

13/02/2018

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…

Government big data

12/02/2018

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…

Permanent fixture

08/02/2018

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…

Technological freedom

31/01/2018

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…