LIFO monitors the implementation of location interoperability in EU public services, based on EULF Blueprint adoption. It provides analyses, best practices, guidance, and features interactive dashboards and case studies. It is an EC solution.
ObservatorieseGovernmentGeospatial
Last update: 06/03/2024
Smart Cities Coffee Talk Highlights
A coffee talk on the new Guidance document on organisational and cultural interoperability, was held on Tuesday March 27th, 2024, with participants from different EU Member States and beyond. The Guidance document was published in the framework of the ‘Study on organisational and cultural interoperability issues arising in local administrations when establishing local, regional or national data spaces or local digital twins’ conducted by the Directorate General DIGIT and the Directorate General CONNECT of the European Commission. The coffee talk took the form of an informal exchange on the…
European PoliciesObservatories+2 topics
Last update: 27/07/2023
OSOR Awards 2023
The European Commission's Open Source Observatory is excited to announce the call for submissions for the EU Public Sector Open Source Achievement Awards. The contest shines a spotlight on the exceptional open source initiatives and solutions developed for public services throughout Europe and provides a platform to showcase exemplary usage and creation of OSS, supporting its use in the public sector. The OSOR Awards are meant for organisations and teams who: have successfully implemented an open source solution(s) within public administrations; or developed initiatives using, supporting, and…
CollaborationObservatories+2 topics
Last update: 25/05/2023
GovTech Connect at Futures4Europe
Wednesday May 23rd Francesco Mureddu, senior director at the Lisbon Council, presented GovTech Connect at the relaunch event of Futures4Europe – a platform to connect Europe’s foresight community funded by the European Commission. The platform is hosted by the Foresight on Demand consortium, a group of individuals and organizations aiming at networking the foresight community in Europe and beyond with a view to support the Research and Innovation Policy of the European Union, its Member States and of countries associated with the EU Framework Programme. Over 160 foresight experts and…
Observatories
Last update: 29/03/2023
Webinar for representatives of public services
The European Commission’s DG DIGIT, in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Interior and Open Cities, is organising a webinar “Public services open-source governance and collaboration” on 30 March 2023 from 9:45 to 12:45. The event is open to the representatives of the European public services and academia (state-owned tertiary education.) Its main goal is to discuss the collaboration of public sector organisations under the Brno Open Source Declaration[1]. In the first part of the webinar, the European Commission will briefly present the role of the open source communities in the future…