The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) provides European standards and technical specifications.
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Last update: 28/05/2024
Enrico Letta's report on the Single Market
Further to the 30 years of the Single Market and the establishment of an independent High-Level Report on the future of the Single Market, the former Italian head of government, Enrico Letta, wrote a report, to define the future of the Single Market for years to come. The report is now available here: Enrico Letta's Report on the Future of the Single Market - European Commission (europa.eu) .About cross-border data exchange: "To remove barriers to knowledge sharing, the EU must harmonise cross-border data flow mechanisms, particularly interoperability and data protection regulations, and…
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Last update: 28/06/2023
The PrestaShop Project
On June 21st, 2023 the PrestaShop project’s live update was held for the sixth time and streamed live. PrestaShop, a French scale-up born in 2007, may not be very well known outside professional e-commerce stakeholders. Most public sector officials may never have heard of it. However, the PrestaShop project is worldwide one of the leading open-source e-commerce platforms on the web, powering over 300,000 web stores generating some 20 billion euro turnover! Open source means licensing and indeed, PrestaShop is released under the OSL 3.0 license, and is freely available on GitHub to download…
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Last update: 02/12/2021
AI Watch. Beyond pilots
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a peculiar case of General Purpose Technology that differs from other examples in history because it embeds specific uncertainties or ambiguous character that may lead to a number of risks when used to support transformative solutions in the public sector. AI has extremely powerful and, in many cases, disruptive effects on the internal management, decision-making and service provision processes of public administration. Over the past few years, the European Union and its Member States have designed regulatory policies and initiatives to mitigate the AI risks and...