In developing the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), the European Commission aims to provide guidance and recommendations to European public administrations on how to implement and deliver more interoperable and better quality public services. Since reusability is one of the fundamental principles of the EIF, the ‘sharing and reuse’ of IT solutions is a necessary condition for interoperability to apply in practice in a Digital Single Market, where citizens and businesses can seamlessly access public services and undertake activities online, irrespective of their nationality or Member…

Supporting instruments [1] European Commission, “Communication on “A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe”,” 2015. [Online]. Available: http://eur-lex.europa. eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52015DC0192. [2] “European interoperability framework,” European Commission, 23 March 2017. [Online]. Available: https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif. [3] European Commission, “Business Models for Sharing and Re-use Tailored to Public Administrations’ Needs,” 2014. [Online]. Available: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/72/db/86/Business%20 models%20for%20Sharing%20and%20Re-use.pdf. [4]…

George Ciamba was appointed minister for Europe on 14 November 2018. George Ciamba is a career diplomat who has joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania in December 1990. His former portfolio as Secretary of for Bilateral and Strategic Affairs in the Euro-Atlantic Area (from January 2017 to 13 November 2018) comprised a wide range of subjects, from the strategic affairs – including NATO, US, disarmament and nonproliferation, cyber security and minority rights – to the bilateral relations with the EU Member States, candidate countries and regional cooperation formats. In 2016, as a…

Francesco Raphaël Frieri is Director-General for Resources CFO, Human Resources, Organization, Europe, Local Government, Innovation and ICT, at the Emilia-Romagna Region. He is also the regional government CDO. He supports the administrative functions of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Government in the Conference of Regions (Rome) and Brussels, as well as in other institutional venues as necessary. Furthermore, he prepares the activities of control and development of the instrumental companies belonging to the Regional Administration. Prior to this, for seven years, he had served as Director…

Gijs Hillenius has been involved with the European Commission's Open Source Observatory since 2007, originally as the project's in-house tech editor, and later as OSOR expert. He walks the talk: his servers run Debian Linux and almost all of his work is done in Emacs.

Alessandro Ranellucci is a member of the Digital Transformation Team of the Italian Government where he is in charge of setting the national strategy about Open Source Software, in order to encourage collaboration and software reuse in the public sector. Before working for the government he had been leading open source projects for more than 15 years, the most notable being Slic3r.org, reference software for 3D printing.

Sebastian is a Computer Scientist, working as Policy Advisor and Parliamentary Assistant with MEP Julia Reda in the European Parliament. As an enthusiast and activist in the area of Internet policy, privacy and information security, he is an advocate of emancipation and technological empowerment. Previously, Sebastian worked in press and public relations, both for non-governmental as well as political organisations, and as a technical consultant.

Chrysanthi is the deputy head of the Reusable Solutions Unit in the Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) of the European Commission. Part of the portfolio she manages includes the Open Source Strategy for the European Commission as well as the EU-FOSSA project which aims at improving the security of Open Source Software. Chrysanthi finished Computer Science studies at the University of Crete – Greece. During her studies she worked as a research assistant in the Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). After receiving her MSc degree, Chrysanthi worked for many years as a…

Petteri Kivimäki is the CTO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS). The NIIS is an association founded jointly by Finland and Estonia which mission is to develop e-governance solutions, kicking off with the X-Road technology. Before joining the NIIS, Petteri worked as a technology architect in a leading global professional services company. During years 2014–2017 Petteri worked at the Population Register Centre of Finland as an information systems manager. He was the technical lead of X-Road implementation project in Finland and was coordinating the joint open source…

Stela joined the Information Technology Solutions at the World Bank Group in July 2015 and is leading the Technology and Innovation Unit and Lab Initiative, as part of the WBG CIO office. During 2010-2015, Stela served as the Government of Moldova 1st Government Chief Information Officer. In this capacity, she led the digital transformation of government operations and public service delivery. During 2009-2010, Stela served as Moldova Prime Minister's advisor on governance and public administration reform. Prior, Stela led and managed governance and democracy building programs with UNDP, USAID…

Registration for the Sharing & Reuse Conference 2019 is closed. To be able to attend the Conference, you will need to complete both REGISTRATION and ACCREDITATION, a two-step process required for security reasons by the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. REGISTRATION Prerequisites: valid ID with an expiry date (the same that you will have in Bucharest) EU Login account (you can create it during the registration process) During the registration process, you should receive the following emails: ‘Acknowledgement of registration’ once you have submitted the registration form…

Fernando de Pablo Martín, General Secretary of Digital Administration, Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function. Born in Segovia, he is a Telecommunications Engineer, member of the Senior Corps of Systems and Information Technologies of the State Administration, Master in Systems Management and Information and Communications Technologies, Executive Master of Business Management by the School of Industrial Organization and Leadership Program for Public Management. Diploma of Advanced Studies in PhD in Applied Economics. He has worked for more than a decade in the private sector in the…