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Smart citiesDigital-ready policymaking+3 topics
Last update: 13/02/2024
NIFO coffee talk on smart cities
We are happy to announce that the NIFO coffee talks are back! The aim of these coffee talks is to highlight recent developments and good practices related to interoperability and digital transformation of public administrations, as one of the main missions of the National Interoperability Framework Observatory. This 2024 edition of the NIFO coffee talks will take a closer look at interoperability from a local and regional perspective, in particular in the frame of local digital twins and data space projects. The discussion will be centered around a recently released Guidance document…
Digital-ready policymakingSmart citieseGovernment
Last update: 30/01/2024
Interoperable Europe Act proposal and NIFO
The legislative journey of the Interoperable Europe Act proposalOn 18 November 2023, the European Parliament and the presidency of the Council, held by Spain until December 2023, have reached a provisional agreement on the proposed legislation regarding measures on a high level of public sector interoperability across the EU, commonly known as the Interoperable Europe Act. The deal has come almost one year after the adoption of the proposal by the European Commission. The proposal follows Member States’ call to strengthen European interoperability cooperation and digital transformation more…
ChatGPT in the Public Sector – overhyped or overlooked?
Large language models such as ChatGPT are here to stay and are set to become an integral part of the workplace. The role of the public sector in serving the public and being held to account for its actions means that it is confronted with very specific issues in relation to the introduction of AI-based tools. But can the public sector take advantage of this technology whilst mitigating its risks? ART’s latest Research Paper, ChatGPT in the Public Sector – overhyped or overlooked, takes ChatGPT as a starting point to examine what the emergence of increasingly sophisticated language models…
Demography and populationDigital-ready policymaking+3 topics
Last update: 26/04/2023
The largest EUPL licensed project?
EBSI status The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) aims to leverage the power of blockchain for the public good. Indeed, in the current age of Internet (Web2), big platforms and social networks (i.e. the so-called “GAFAM”) offered to facilitate users’ activities by providing them services like unique sign-on (i.e. “Sign in with Google”). However, by providing such service, they have taken global visibility and control on users’ behaviour and credentials. In the coming third age of the internet (Web3), the aim of EBSI is to provide a new paradigm for exchanging and verifying…
CollaborationDigital-ready policymaking+3 topics
Last update: 24/04/2023
The EU Academy platform in a nutshell!
The European Union recently launched the EU Academy, a corporate e-learning platform for external stakeholders. The success of the platform has managed to exceed all expectations, since to date, over 350,000 learners from over 190 countries have enrolled in the more than 1,000 content items available in the platform, making it the biggest MOODLE platform in the world. The EU Academy team expects to hit the milestone of 1,000,000 enrolments in 2023! The EU Academy is the EU’s online hub for e-learning. It contains first-hand knowledge, high quality educational resources and valuable insights…
OSPOlogyLive with Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
Join the third OSPOlogyLive Europe in Apeldoorn (part presentations, part roundtable sessions) to help organizations navigate Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) operations and management in European regions. OSPOlogy Live is hosted by the OSPO at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) and co-organized with Linux Foundation Europe, InnerSource Commons Foundation, Foundation for Public Code, LF Energy, OpenChain, SPDX, CHAOSS, TODO Group and OpenSSF projects.OSPOlogyLive...
CollaborationDigital-ready policymaking+3 topics
Last update: 12/06/2024
kaleidemoskop – Precise Forecasts for the Public Sector Using Digital Twins of the Society
kaleidemosop uses digital twins of the society to fascilitate data-based decision-making in the public sector.
Demography and populationDigital-ready policymaking+2 topics
v1.0.0
Release date: 25/10/2023
ELAP Validator
Release details: ELAP Validator archimate file: The archimate file contains all mappings between ELAP principles and mappings.ELAP XML file: The XML file from the archimate that contains all mappings between ELAP principles and mappings. It is used as the basis for the ELAP Validator.ELAP catalogue v2.0.0.xlsx: The ELAP library of principles in Excel formatCAMSS Info Package v8.1.0: File containing informative documentation of the CAMSS activityEuropean Union Public License (EUPL) v1.2: The licence under which the solution has been released.ELAP Validator v1.0.0 Release Notes: The release…
Last update: 20/10/2023
Regulatory learning in experimentation spaces
Overview This science for policy brief provides an overview of the ways in which experimentation spaces can support regulatory decision-making and learning. It discusses the joint value that the...
Landscaping the monitoring of interoperability and digital transformation
Overview For over 20 years, several European digital policies have measured progress in the European Member States through monitoring activities such as benchmarking or maturity assessments. However...
Identifying opportunities for streamlining European monitoring of digital policies
Overview For over 20 years, European digital policies have tracked the progress of Member States through monitoring activities involving indicators and, increasingly, capacity-building, benchmarking...