TESTA is a private managed underlying secured & trusted communication network infrastructure allowing secure information exchange capabilities for operational co-operation & collaboration between EUIBAs and public authorities located in the Member States, UK, EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) & candidate countries (currently Montenegro and North Macedonia). TESTA is meant for sensitive pan-European information exchanges between public authorities requiring guaranteed service levels for network availability, performance and/or security (confidentiality, integrity…

Harmony eDelivery Access by Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) is a free and actively maintained open-source component for joining one or more eDelivery policy domains. Harmony will benefit your organisation not only for the exchange of data across national borders, but also how it can link up different regions, municipalities, etc. across EU Member States. Harmony eDelivery Access provides a unified technology stack, an automated installation and upgrade process for selected platforms, and step-by-step installation and upgrade instructions. The security of Harmony…

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…

The CEF eTranslation Building Block is a machine translation tool that helps public administrations and businesses exchange information and documents across all official EU languages, Icelandic and Norwegian. Public administrations, citizens and businesses in the EU will thus be able to benefit from digital services in the language of their choice. eTranslation can be integrated into the workflow of cross-border digital services, and is now freely available to all European SMEs. eTranslation's machine translation tool is widely used by European Commission civil servants and can also be used…

eArchiving provides the core specifications, software, training and knowledge to help data creators, software developers and digital archives tackle the challenge of short, medium and long-term data management and reuse in a sustainable, authentic, cost-efficient, manageable and interoperable way. eArchiving technical specifications are ideal for migrating long-term valuable data between generations of information systems, transferring data to dedicated long-term repositories (i.e. digital archives), or preserving and reusing data over extended (and shorter) periods of time and generations of…

CEF Context Broker is an API that can integrate data from multiple systems, creating a holistic view of information. By providing the layer that describes each type of data, the Context Broker makes it possible to create an interface that makes it easy for anyone to view and interpret big data. Using the Context Broker, organisations can monitor their metrics in real time through live updates. You can share the context information you choose with third parties, enabling process improvements and innovation across the whole data value chain. Through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the…

What is BDTI? The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a ready-to-use and free of charge (for a period of six months) analytics cloud stack offered by the European Commission as part of the Digital Europe Programme, to all local, regional and national European public administrations. The BDTI allows its users to experiment with open-source technologies and foster the re-use of all public sector data and information. Overall, BDTI's goal is to contribute to the development of a data-informed public sector. Why use BDTI? Since January 2023, the European Commission has published a list of high…

MeetPAd is an application platform supporting inter-institutional digital collaboration (Ministries, Region, Special Reconstruction Office, Provinces, Municipalities, etc.), multichannel and remotely, with the aim of simplifying the planning and the management of videoconference meetings and the sharing of contents and formal documents among the subjects involved, especially the Telematic Services Conference to manage, first of all, the post-earthquake reconstruction process, but also, for example, the administrative advancement of the Ultra Broadband in the territories, the environmental…

e-quality is a simple, cost-effective and easy-to-use tool that enables public organizations to use Total Quality Management techniques and principles to improve their administrative capacity and the services they provide to citizens. The tool is based on the self-evaluation of the public organization through a European-wide methodology, which concludes in identifying and implementing concrete and feasible improvement measures. e-quality can be utilized in any public organization of the EU Member States, regardless of its level of operation (national, regional or local)

Consent-based loan application is ensuring that loan applications now can be automatically processed in full in a matter of minutes, all day every day of the week. This is a very special success story, a unique private and public sector collaboration that was initiated by the DSOP programme (digital collaboration between the private and public sector). The Norwegian Tax Administration, the Brønnøysund Register Centre and the financial industry (represented by Finance Norway and Bits AS) have joined forces to develop a digital solution for sharing income and tax data. Altinn-video English w…

Building a people-oriented information society is a joined effort that requires cooperation and partnership between all stakeholders. The Mazowieckie Voivodeship carries out this task through the GATE of MAZOVIA portal (https://www.wrotamazowsza.pl). It is an public access platform providing e-services of public administration. The portal consists three components: The Masovian Spatial Information System (MSIP) takes the role of an integrator of spatial data in Mazovia, also is an element of spatial information infrastructure and provides universal access to spatial information via the…

The Woningpas (Building Passport for residential dwellings), an instrument developed in Flanders (Belgium), is a unique integral digital file of every house, accessible to the homeowner (light version launched December 2018 ) and his / her appointed representatives (medium version 2019). It is an instrument to provide the home-owner with an insight into all relevant building aspects of his home including energetic aspects (insulation & installation), renewables, the soil, the licensed works, the quality of the house and the evolution towards the long-term s goal on energy performance and…