Public Sector Tech Watch provides insights into emerging technologies in the European public sector, such as artificial intelligence and blockchains.
Digital innovationObservatories+2 topics
Last update: 10/03/2023
Decision supporting tool on interoperability
The Decision supporting tool on interoperability (the Tool) is being developed as part of the Legal Interoperability ISA2 action, which aims to ensure that digital and interoperability aspects are considered in EU policies from their earliest stage. Upon the design of a new legislation that brings changes to existing digital environments, especially at a trans-European level, policymakers have to choose which would be the most effective and efficient approach for implementation. In this decision they may want to consider, among other aspects, the costs and benefits of including…
Digital innovationLegal+14 topics
Last update: 15/09/2023
The Hellenic OCR Team
The Team The Hellenic Optical Character Recognition Team, or simply Hellenic OCR Team, is an innovative crowdsourcing initiative. It represents the first distributed scientific platform that aims exclusively at the processing and analysis of parliamentary data. With time, the Team gradually expanded its scope also to cover the study of government data. For doing so, a wide spectrum of self-developed methods and software tools has been developed to advance interoperability of systems and data sources. Established in late 2017, the Team –as of summer 2020– includes 35 experts resident in eight…
Digital innovationScience and technology
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…
Supporting quality and maturity of digital commons
NGI Zero Review is a three year support programme offering various targeted services to free and open source projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative. Goal is to improve the quality and inclusiveness of these projects, and make them more sustainable where possible by supporting the most promising ideas to live up to high standards (sometimes called “walk the talk”) in terms of security, privacy, accessibility, open source licensing compliance, standardisation, etc. Target participants: The NGI Zero Review program is open to grantees withing the NGI initiative Available to free…
eGovernmentICT+6 topics
Last update: 06/04/2023
Funding opportunity: Open Calls on moving the Internet forward
NGI Zero Core 1st Open Call Opening date: 1st April 2023 Closing date: 1st August 12:00 CET We want a more resilient, trustworthy and open internet. We want to empower end-users. Given the speed at which the ‘twin transition’ is taking place, we need a greener internet and more sustainable services sooner rather than later. Neither will happen at global scale without protocol evolution, which — as the case of three decades of IPv6 introduction demonstrates — is extremely challenging. NGI0 Core is designed to push beyond the status quo and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and…
eGovernmentICT+3 topics
Last update: 29/05/2023
Funding opportunity: Open Calls on Trustworthiness and data sovere
NGI ZERO ENTRUST 5th Open Call Opening date: 1st April Closing date: 1st August 12:00 CET (noon) We need a more resilient, trustworthy and open internet, empowering the end-users. Trust is only justified and sustainable if it the technology in question is up for the job, and is secure-by-design as well as trustworthy. Much of the software, services and devices does not measure up, and it is quite unlikely this will just improve by itself. NGI0 Entrust is designed to move beyond the status quo and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and open source software, libre hardware and…
eGovernmentICTDigital innovation
Last update: 10/03/2023
DT4REGIONS Award Your solution for digital transformation
DT4REGIONS Award Your solution for digital transformation About DT4Regions DT4REGIONS is a European Parliament Preparatory Action supported with European Funds. Its aim is the creation of a European Platform for Regions to enable AI and Big Data collective solutions. It is a unique challenge-based innovation platform for the development of tools and services of public interest. At the same time, its goal is to enhance public administration efficiency and effectiveness in user-centric services. Within this context, public administrations were engaged in defining the platform services and can…
eGovernmentDigital innovation
Last update: 23/03/2023
Scoping GovTech dynamics in the EU
Summary This report provides background information on GovTech dynamics in the EU. It starts by giving an overview of the current state of public procurement for innovation (PPI). The report highlights the rather uniform definitions of PPI, its purpose, existing barriers and obstacles, and explains different types of procurement models and their processes. Based on empirical evidence from scoping interviews with start-ups, founders and GovTech programmes, the report then reflects on how the existing schemes apply to recently planned GovTech initiatives, shows the reasons why governments might…
eGovernmentDigital innovation
Last update: 10/10/2023
GovTech Practices in the EU
Background and Scope To support governments in the EU embracing GovTech, this report provides an overview of the diversity of GovTech programmes and shares lessons learnt for setting up government-run GovTech programmes. While the focus of this report is on national GovTech programmes, its findings and conclusions can be applied to others levels of government as well. The term GovTech refers to the use of emerging technologies and digital products and services by government from start-ups and SMEs - instead of relying on large system integrators. This report presents an overview of how the…
eGovernmentDigital innovation
06/09/2023
Physical event
Major Cities of Europe 2023 conference - A loom with a view - Weaving the digital future of communities, cities and regions.
Following the annual conferences in Larissa, Venice, Leipzig, Zagreb, Hamburg and numerous others in various European cities, Major Cities of Europe (www.majorcities.eu) and the Municipality of Prato are pleased to invite you to the international conference 2023 to be held in Prato, at the "Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art" (https://centropecci.it/), from 25 to 27 October 2023 with the support of the Tuscany Region and Confservizi Cispel Toscana. The golden thread: A Loom With a View -...
CollaborationEuropean Policies+7 topics
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...