SEMIC2024: Interoperable Europe - From Vision to Reality
SEMIC is returning on 27 June for an exciting event in Brussels - the heart of the European Union!
Digital-ready policymakingeGovernment+3 topics
28/05/2024
Virtual event
Mark Your Calendar: Re3gistry Software Training Session on May 29th, 2024
We are excited to announce upcoming training sessions focused on the Re3gistry and INSPIRE Registry tools. These sessions will provide hands-on exercises to help participants become familiar with the…
eGovernmentContent and knowledge management+4 topics
01/09/2024
Hybrid event
IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART Emerging Issues and Innovations Track
EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART - one of the most recognized conference in e-Government, ICT and public administration and related topics is coming with variety of tracks, where "Emerging Issues and Innovations" Track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Marijn Janssen, Francesco Mureddu) can be seen of the greatest interest for GovTech Connect. This year EGOV2024 will be hosted in Belgium, in the heart of Europe, by Ghent University and KU Leuven – both top 100 universities, in September (1-5...
CollaborationDigital-ready policymaking+32 topics
02/02/2024
Physical event
EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024
The 10-year anniversary of the OpenForum Europe’s EU Open Source Policy Summit is taking place on 2 February 2024, just before FOSDEM. The Summit gathers an assembly of policymakers, open source businesses, community members, developers, foundations, and experts engaged in diverse digital policy matters.This event is the occasion for policymakers and the open source community to discuss its upcoming challenges on how to regulate the digital field. Policymakers once viewed open source as a niche...
The OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium 2023, hosted by TU Berlin, aims to bridge the gap in academic discourse regarding the multifaceted impact of open source. Recognising the lack of a dedicated platform for exploring the social, political, and economic dimensions of open source, the OFA Symposium seeks to unite a diverse body of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, developers, and activists in Berlin. This confluence is designed to delve into the ways open source is revolutionising work...
LegalLicensing+2 topics
15/11/2023
Physical event
NGI Forum 2023 - Unlocking the power of Digital Commons
The NGI Forum 2023 is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. It brings together some of Europe’s top Internet innovators at work to build an Internet of Trust, empowering end-users with more choice and control over their data and digital identity.The mission of NGI is to re-imagine and re-engineer the Internet. The NGI initiative funds European innovative research projects that make it possible to develop a new Internet that is safer, more open...
European PoliciesOpen Source Software+7 topics
07/11/2023
Physical event
Open Research Webinars
Co-organized by OW2 and the Eclipse Foundation, the Open Research Webinar series provides a brief introduction to selected software research projects that are helping to shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. The webinars focus on international partners leveraging open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs. The next episode will take place online on November 7 at 4PM CET. Registration is free: https://opensourceinnovation.eu/ The...
CollaborationeGovernment+4 topics
25/10/2023
Physical event
5G and Gov Tech- Addressing Innovation Challenges & Opportunities for Government, Business & Society in Greece
Wednesday, 25th October 2023 Iphigenia Hall Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens As Greece is undergoing extensive digital transformation across sectors and verticals, emerging disruptive technologies (EDTs) such as 5G/6G, XR, VR, AI/ML are expected to have a major impact on the public sector, businesses, and society. In line with the above, the European Digital Innovation Hub for Digital Governance (GR digiGOV-innoHUB) and the p-NET Competence Center, are organizing a focused workshop...
CollaborationSmart cities+6 topics
16/10/2023
Physical event
Lutece Translation Hackathon
The City of Paris and BlueHats, invite you to participate in the first ever Lutece Translation Hackathon, lasting one week – commencing the 16th of October. As Lutece is already in use across various administration, the project team is looking to extend the possibility for more people to reuse it in their own language. This first Hackathon will focus on the core of Lutece, to create the vocabulary basis to then extend translation with the help of AI. As this project will focus on translation...
CollaborationSmart cities+5 topics
21/09/2023
Hybrid event
EOLE workshop on Open Source legal compliance and public administrations
This workshop will examine how public administrations can get increased benefit from free software through collaboration, in general, and also specifically through the linking of OSPOs. For public administrations, the obligations when using free and open source software are different in terms of licences & legal compliance, selection of service providers and spending rules. Public administrations are also different in terms of their culture of often moving slowly, but also having a more...
European PoliciesLegal+2 topics
18/10/2023
Physical event
Decidim Fest 2023 - Call for proposals
Decidim's own festival is back in October this year in Barcelona. Co-organised with the city council and supported by various public administration, this edition will focus on "Democracy, Technology and Collective Intelligence". Asking the question of how Artificial intelligence is conceptualized as an abstract form of knowledge instead of a human originated process and challenging the assumptions that could cut off citizens from their right to discuss and question what this technology brings...
CollaborationDigital-ready policymaking+5 topics
12/07/2023
Virtual event
Online meeting “Synergies for innovative Solutions” – 12/07/2023
The European Digital Innovation Hub for Digital Governance GR digiGOV-innoHUB, invites you to an Information-sharing and work meeting to strengthen the contribution of innovative businesses to the creation of a new generation of services to citizens and businesses. The aim of the meeting is to present the European Digital Innovation Hub for Digital Governance GR digiGOV-innoHUB and the framework for cooperation and participation of businesses in its actions, as well as the presentation of...