European Citizens' Initiative - Regulation (EU) 2019/788
This solution contains all the artefacts related to the European Citizens' Initiative.
eParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 20/02/2024
Crypto Tool for the European Parliament Elections and for the European Citizens' Initiative
The EU Commission's Crypto Tool, secures data exchange for EU Parliament elections and European Citizens' Initiatives. It prevents double voting and enhances data quality and interoperability across Member States. It is an EC solution.
eParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 21/05/2024
EUSurvey
EUSurvey is a free multilingual online service to manager surveys and public consultations. It offers diverse question types, result analysis and export options. It is an EC solution.
Reusable Software ComponentseParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 20/02/2024
ECI Online Collection Software (OCS)
It is an OSS (under EUPL) to collect information for European Citizens' Initiatives, with compliance with EU regulations. This solution is for European iniative organisers. It is an EC solution.
eParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 26/02/2024
EUSurvey covers all your survey life cycle needs
EUSurvey is the flexible and widely accessible solution for:collecting the opinions of stakeholders on a specific issue;rapidly consulting businesses, citizens or other interested parties;conducting user satisfaction surveys;preparing conference registrations;creating multi-lingual surveys;publishing results over the web.It covers all steps of a survey life cycle, from the design to the launch of the survey to the analysis and publication of results. It offers different types of questions, from simple text and multiple-choice questions to spreadsheet questions or multi-media survey elements…
CollaborationeParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 15/01/2024
Building resilient and participatory democracies
A new recommendation from the Commission calls Member States to promote the participation of citizens and civil society organisations in public policy-making. This could improve the quality of decision-making processes and renew trust in democracy.The recommendation forms part of the ‘Defence of Democracy’ package and encourages Member States to develop a structured approach to participation processes through predictable, accessible and inclusive frameworks. The recommendation introduces specific measures to support and encourage citizen participation in public policy-making, ensuring…
eParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 18/12/2023
World Cities Day 2023
The 31st of October has been celebrated as The World Cities Day! An annual event designated by the United Nations to raise awareness of the challenges and opportunities associated with global urbanisation. It serves as a platform to promote sustainable development aiming to encourage international cooperation and innovative approaches to improve urban living conditions. On World Cities Day, the significance of open data becomes more pronounced as it highlights the necessity of fostering transparency and collaboration among various stakeholders, including government authorities, researchers…
eParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 18/12/2023
Commission adopts rules on independent audits
The European Commission recently adopted and transmitted to the European Parliament and Council a Delegated Regulation with rules on independent audits to assess compliance of Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines with the Digital Services Act (DSA). Audits represent an important accountability tool and are part of the DSA's various transparency requirements. The DSA requires that the Delegated Regulation set out the steps the designated services must apply to verify the capabilities and independence of their auditors who will use templates to produce the independent…
eGovernmenteParticipation and eVoting
Last update: 18/12/2023
European Digital Identity Wallets
The regulation introducing European Digital Identity Wallets has been finalized, after the final agreement was reached in early November by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.The provisional political agreement was reached on 29 June 2023, the results of which have now been implemented. This marks an important step towards the Digital Decade 2030 targets on the digitalisation of public services. As of this new agreement, EU citizens will be offered the possibility to have an EU Digital Identity Wallet to access public and private online services. This wallet will provide…
European PolicieseGovernment+3 topics
Last update: 14/02/2024
OSOR Awards: Vote for your favourite open source project!
The time has come to celebrate excellence, transparency, and innovation in the realm of open source within European public services. We are delighted to announce the commencement of the voting phase for the OSOR Community Awards under the contest EU Public Services Open Source Achievement Awards 2023, organised by the European Commission's Open Source Observatory (OSOR). What are the OSOR Awards? The OSOR Awards are a recognition of the remarkable achievements of organisations and teams in developing open source solutions and initiatives in public domain across Europe. The awards honour the…
CollaborationEuropean Policies+4 topics
Last update: 24/04/2023
The EU Academy platform in a nutshell!
The European Union recently launched the EU Academy, a corporate e-learning platform for external stakeholders. The success of the platform has managed to exceed all expectations, since to date, over 350,000 learners from over 190 countries have enrolled in the more than 1,000 content items available in the platform, making it the biggest MOODLE platform in the world. The EU Academy team expects to hit the milestone of 1,000,000 enrolments in 2023! The EU Academy is the EU’s online hub for e-learning. It contains first-hand knowledge, high quality educational resources and valuable insights…
Human-Centricity in Digital Delivery: Enhancing Agile Governance
Professor Ines Mergel has published a new report on Enhancing Agile Governance In this report, the author discusses how digital service teams bring “service designers” into government to transform service delivery. These designers use human-centered design approaches to help public sector organizations refine strategies, rethink the nature of services, and reflect the way that citizens want to use a public service. The report focuses on how human centricity can help to transform digital service delivery in a way that improves government agility, with results that address principles, mindsets…