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: 15/11/2023
EU BERT
EU BERT is is a language processing tool tailored for European languages and was developed through collective European efforts. EUBERT processes and understands multiple languages from the continent, addressing its specific linguistic needs.A significant aspect of EU BERT's development was the use of the EuroHPC Meluxina cluster, a core component of Europe's high-performance computing landscape. This advanced infrastructure ensured that the model was trained to be both efficient and attuned to the complexities of European languages.The model is accessible here: https://huggingface.co…
AI Named entity recognition
Last update: 15/11/2023
EuroVoc Tagger
The European Parliament has deployed a EuroVoc (https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/dataset/-/resource?uri=http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/eurovoc) classifier in production using the Huggingface Enterprise Hub solution. The classifier employs a BERT model to classify documents based on the EuroVoc vocabulary, which is a multilingual thesaurus of concepts used in European Union documentation.The model is accessible here: https://huggingface.co/EuropeanParliament/eurovoc_en. For more information or queries contact the solution owner via the link in the 'Contact information…
AI Named entity recognition
Last update: 15/11/2023
Knime & Dataiku tools exploration
We are starting our Data Analytics effort and experimenting different tools in the Lab.Knime added to the list of tool available in the catalogue of the EP. The evaluation of Dataiku is on going.For more information or queries contact the solution owner via the link in the "Contact information" section.
Advanced data analytics
Last update: 15/11/2023
Assessment of solutions to automate document encoding processes
We are exploring the market for OCR solutions that will help us automate some Document encoding processes. The results are available in a document that can be provided upon request. For more information or queries contact the solution owner via the link in the 'Contact information' section.
Optical Character Recognition
Last update: 15/11/2023
Experimentations made on Virtual Visits, Augmented Content and Indoor Geolocalisation
We are doing a lot of experiments with Augmented and Virtual Reality. They are all under POCs efforts.The use cases are Virtual Visits, Augmented Content, Indoor geolocalisationOur current focus is on two geolocation technologies.For more information or queries contact the solution owner via the link in the "Contact information" section.
Extended reality
Last update: 13/02/2024
ETAPAS toolkit
ETAPAS aims to improve public service delivery for citizens by facilitating the ethical adoption of Disruptive Technologies in compliance with European and national strategies and guidelines. It is an ETAPAS Consortium solution.
Robotic Process AutomationeGovernment+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…
The 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023) will take place on 11-14 July 2023 in Gdańsk, Poland. The special focus is digital government and solidarity in the unstable world. The conference’s main organizer is the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. The dg.o conference series is an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, ICT and public administration, political participation, civic engagement…
Artificial intelligence
Last update: 06/04/2023
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…