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Very recently, the Dutch government's BOMOS2i guide on the management processes for open government IT standards is proving useful for the newest European large-scale pilot project for cross-border government services, e-SENS. A workshop was organised by the European Commission’s ISA Programme and Logius, a Dutch ministerial department assisting government organisations in building eGovernment services.
Following testing of the BOMOS2i approach, the e-SENS consortium decided to reuse the model, after refining the segment on project financing and clarifying the section on governance. Joinup reported on this exchange of best practice.
Another recent sharing of best practices took place through a workshop on the new eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, organised in July by EC DG Connect. See our news on the 12th eGovernment benchmark study that was also presented during this workshop.
The Joinup collaboration platform aims to support eGovernment professionals through a great variety of news, case studies, but also with our inventory of reusable ICT solutions, and our conference and workshop calendar.
Joinup is strongly committed to promote interoperability, open IT standards and government modernisation.
Events | View all events
49th ICA Annual Conference |
The week of of public innovation |
| The ICA Annual Conference facilitates the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences on Information and Communications Technologies in government administration. | From 12 to 18 October 2015, France's local public authorities and public agencies are organising a week-long public innovation drive. |
| 06-09 September, Stockholm, Sweden | 12- 18 October, France |
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| Dual EGOV 2015 and ePart 2015 conference | 30 August - 03 September, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Ireland International Conference on Education | 26 - 29 October, Dublin, Ireland |
| The Public Sector Procurement Summit | 10 November, London, United Kingdom |
News | View all news articles
e-SENS applies BOMOS2i standard maintenance model” |
eGovernment in EU: better but some barriers remain |
| The newest European large-scale pilot project for cross-border government services, e-SENS, has applied BOMOS2i guide for the review of management processes for open government IT standards. | Citizen participation is at the centre of Open Government Strategy in the EU; however, only one in four public services in Europe are mobile-friendly, according to the 12th eGovernment benchmark report. |
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| Central discovery component of the OpenPEPPOL network now operated by the EC | CEF |
| The SML (Service Metadata Locator), a central discovery component of the OpenPEPPOL network, is operated by the European Commission. | |
| Call for public review: DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) | SEMIC |
| DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) has entered its public review period. The ISA Programme of European Commission is inviting experts to participate in a public review of the proposed revision of the DCAT-AP until 30 August 2015. | |
| NIFO updates eGovernment report on EU and EC | NIFO |
| The European Commission this week published an update to its eGovernment report. The previous report was from 2014. | |
| Spain’s new eInvoice tool handles over a million invoices | ePractice |
| Spain’s central eInvoicing solution (FACe), which began operating in January, has already processed more than 1,2 million invoices. | |
| Denmark: A web app to compare municipal budgets | OpenGov |
| Politiken, the third-largest daily newspaper in Denmark, has put online a data visualisation application which presents the budgets of 98 Danish municipalities, using Open Data. | |
| EC publishes open source code of legislation editor | OSOR |
| The European Commission is about to make available as open source a prototype of LEOS, a software solution for drafting and automatic processing of legal texts. | |
| France wants to accelerate its reforms through open government | OpenGov |
| The action plan that France must submit as part of its membership of the Open government partnership (OGP) is based on reforms already announced. | |
| The EC signed an agreement with OpenPEPPOL | CEF |
| The European Commission and OpenPEPPOL are joining forces to support the uptake of secure electronic data exchange across borders. | |
| Call for contributions: The 10th International Workshop on Ontology Matching | SEMIC |
| The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. | |
| Researchers to track down obstacles to digital DIY | ePractice |
| An EU-funded research project wants to find regulations and other obstacles that hinder digital Do-It-Yourself companies. | |
| School: open source reduces PC troubleshooting | OSOR |
| Using open source in school greatly reduces the time needed to troubleshoot PCs, shows the case of the Colegio Agustinos de León (Augustinian College of León, Spain). |
Studies | View all studies
Cl@ve: Unifying and Simplifying Identification for Spanish Online Public Services |
EC consolidates hundreds of websites onto new Drupal 7 Europa platform |
| The Spanish public sector currently offers many ways of accessing public services on line, mainly based in the use of digital certificates, among them the Spanish e-DNI. Cl@ve unifyies existing online identification methods into a single solution deployed throughout the Spanish e-Administration for national, regional and local online services. | Last summer, the Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT), and DG Communication (DG COMM) started the implementation of the new europa.eu platform.This is built on Drupal version 7 and will replace the current Corporate Web Content Management System (CWCMS) based on Documentum, as well as the temporary Multisite Platform also based on Drupal 7. |
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| Interoperability in Croatia: the e-Citizens project | NIFO |
| The e-Citizens project unifies Croatia's citizens' access to eGovernment services. | |
| Reaching for the mountains in Romania; Ro-NET broadband infrastructure bridges digital gap | ePractice |
| In the Ro-NET Project, Romania’s Ministry for Information Society (MSI) is overseeing the construction of a high-speed telecommunications backhaul network, using optical fibre and GPRS radio signals. | |
| UK's CAP ITC Solution - Successes and Issues | ePractice |
| The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has put into a practice a plan to modernise and simplify the process for requesting EU CAP subsidies. | |
| iAP: a common language to ensure real interoperability in public administration | ePractice |
| In order to place citizens and companies at the centre of a modern and innovative public administration, the Portuguese Government is investing in a public administration interoperability platform (iAP). | |
| eProcurement: Belgium deploys a two-system platform for e-signature | OSOR |
| The Belgian government has deployed a digital procurement service that allows Belgian and foreign companies to submit offers to tenders and sign documents electronically. |
Interoperability Solutions | View all interoperability solutions
| TLMANAGER | CCE |
| Tool to make available information on list of trusted certification service providers. | Citizen Card Encrypted a multiplatform application tool which provides encryption, decryption and general data management facilities for individuals and groups. |
| Signature Verification Portal | Mocca |
| The Signature Verification Portal is a web based application that allows uploading of documents of various signature formats. | MOCCA (Modular Open Citizen Card Architecture)is a modular, open source citizen card environment, a joint initiative of Federal Chancellery Austria and Graz University of Technology. |
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