On 27 June 2023, the National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) team held an online webinar gathering the National Contact Points of European countries, together with other stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to discuss the results of the 2022 editions of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and Berlin Declaration (BDM) Monitoring Mechanisms and hear from the experience of four EU countries in the fields of cross-border interoperability, empowerment, and digital literacy. The webinar was divided into two sessions, the first one being dedicated to the EIF…

The results of the first monitoring exercise of the Berlin Declaration are finally out, providing an overview of the progress made by the Member States in implementing the 22 Policy Actions of the Declaration they had agreed on in December 2020. These Policy Actions are meant to foster the level of digitalisation of the public sector at both the national and EU level. In addition, this monitoring exercise also aims to identify and share the measures and initiatives put in place by each country to implement said Policy Actions. In addition, the results of the third monitoring exercise of the…

The United Nations E-Government Survey 2022 is the 12th edition of the United Nations’ assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States. The E-Government Survey is informed by over two decades of longitudinal research, with a ranking of countries based on the United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI), a combination of primary data (collected and owned by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) and secondary data from other UN agencies. This edition of the Survey includes data analysis in global and regional contexts, a study of local…

Natural disasters, unforeseen incidents and global pandemics continue to occur in sudden and unexpected ways. While we cannot prevent them from happening, our capacity to react has starkly improved in the last century. We, as humans, have not changed: biologically speaking, our brain has not evolved in the last 200,000 years (still waiting for that “software update”!). However, the exponential acceleration of technology is now helping us to help others quasi instantly, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis. There are countless examples of how technology is being used…

As part of the National Interoperability Framework Observatory project, we are happy to announce the publication of this year's edition of the European Semester report, which examines the level of modernisation and digitalisation in Europe’s public administrations and analyses the role played by digital government in the European Semester process. The COVID-19 pandemic also had its repercussions on the 2020 European Semester process and the publication of its associated documents. Indeed, the recommendations emanating from the European Union's Country Specific Recommendations particularly…

The interoperability training and supporting material package offers additional support to public administrations at all levels to improve their implementation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). It is available in English as well as French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The summary slide-deck aims at providing a country-view of the digital public administration and interoperability state-of-play in 2020 in Europe. The information stems from: The results of the2020 edition of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Monitoring Mechanism, outlining the country’s performance in terms of interoperability; The main findings of the report “The role of digital government in the European semester process 2019”, providing the main priorities in the digital government field, identified within the European Semester documents, i.e. the Country Specific…

The new 2020 Digital Public Administration factsheets for Member States and other European countries and their related Infographics are now available on Joinup. These factsheets, published as part of the ISA2 programme, represent a main source of information on the digital transformation that public administrations are currently undergoing in Europe, providing an up-to-date overview of the initiatives undertaken by 36 European countries (the 27 EU Member States and the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, Montenegro, Turkey and the Republic of North Macedonia)…

As part of the National Interoperability Framework Observatory project, which is the European observatory of interoperability as well as a business intelligence centre producing reports on digital pubic administration, a comprehensive study is performed on an annual basis to examine the level of modernisation and digitalisation in Europe’s public administrations. This information is particularly useful to the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DG DIGIT), and to its Interoperability Unit more specifically, in order to be informed about the key trends influencing the…