We provide evidence-based policy advice, technical expertise, and capacity-building support to policymakers and stakeholders across the European Union, seeking to foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and co-creation in the public sector.Our work focuses on key areas such as evolving public governance paradigms, digital-ready policymaking, innovative public services, and monitoring digital transitions. We aim to enhance the quality, efficiency, and transparency of European public services and strengthening democratic accountability and participation, also via a strong community…

The Greek Digital Government and Public Services Innovation Hub – GR digiGOV-innoHUB supports the development of a new generation of public services based on advanced digital technologies (AI, ML, IoT, Blockchain, HPC), with open source software, open data and open standards. GR digiGOV-innoHUB is coordinated by GRNET and is a proud member of the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) network. GR digiGOV-innoHUB aims to develop an ecosystem of digital transformation actors by promoting innovation in Public Administration through the National Digital Portal for Public Services gov.gr. All GR…

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced interoperability policy in the public sector.

Welcome to the exchange platform Knowledge sharing in organisations is a significant challenge in present-day societies. While it is directly related to the production, dissemination and reuse of fast-growing volumes of data, the creation, curation and sharing of reference data (lists, taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies) are absolute foundation stones of knowledge management. Throughout this process, individuals, companies, national public services and EU and international organisations deploy IT and semantic solutions in various fields, alongside efforts dedicated to the wider implementation…

Our mission The Catalogue of Services Action supports public administrations in building their digital catalogues of public services, to allow citizens, businesses and public administrations across Europe to access and understand the information they need. What does the Catalogue of Services do ? The Catalogue of Services Action aims at enhancing the interoperability of existing portals and catalogues of services: given that administrations have developed solutions listing the various services available without coordinating this with each other, the access to this information and the…

Know more about APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the connecting nodes of the digital society, thus a foundational component of its digital transformation. The vast majority of data exchange and transactions in the digital era happen through APIs. APIs are strategic components of platform environments and its role can be crucial in the governance and monitoring of such environments. They are also key for the uptake of AI and IoT applications. On the other hand, APIs are a serious cybersecurity concern, as they are vulnerable points in digital infrastructures. The COVID-19…

The Digital Response to COVID-19 gives you access to a large resource database including open source software, websites, and platforms that are useful for public administrations, businesses, and citizens dealing with the ongoing crisis: Open source solutions – A growing list of open source software solutions available to help medical staff, public administrations, businesses, and citizens in their daily activities. Open data – Open databases and datasets to analyse the evolution of the COVID-19 outbreak. Hackathons and events – A list of hackathons, past and future, in order to access their…

More specifically, this community aims to connect different stakeholders involved in policymaking and policy implementation (policy officers, public service implementers, service managers, IT specialists, data engineers, etc.) in order to design policies and legal acts that can be effectively implemented – often through digital means. It is a collaborative space to give insights on the formulation of digital-ready policies and on digital solutions, which can foster digital-ready policymaking. It is also a place, where stakeholders can engage with each other, discuss hot topics, stay informed…

A wide variety of public authorities need to process open source information to support decision making and understanding the context of a topic domain. In many use cases the data needs to be processed by passing it through a number of software components (for example a component to do automatic language translation) before a human can effectively use it. For various processing steps software tools (commercial and non-commercial) already exist and are in use by authorities of EU Member States and EU institutions. However, it proves difficult to exchange and reuse tools between authorities…

This collection is established to serve as a central place where you can find news and share best practices, initiatives, challenges and needs related to training programmes and educational resources focused on supporting the provision of interoperable digital services. With this collection, the European Commission aims to make existing eLearning resources on interoperability, produced across Europe and beyond, as well as training on different actions of the ISA² programme, available for civil servants. Another objective of the collection is to raise awareness and give access to the…

Introduction Open Standards for Linked Organisations - OSLO - is a succession of the OSLO initiative that was initiated in 2012 by V-ICT-OR (Flemish ICT Organisation) and laid the basis for an open semantic information standard. In 2016, the Flemish Agency of Information took the initiative to transform OSLO from Open Standards for Local Administrations to Open Standards for Linked Organisations and shift the governance to the Steering Committee Flemish Information and ICT policy (Vlaams stuurorgaan Informatie en ICT-beleid). As suggested by the name, the aim of OSLO is to achieve…

Online application for construction of legal documents and the embedding of semantic information in other text documents. Semantics @ YourFingerTips (S@y) serves the need for drafting legal text in a machine-readable way. The free-roaming text-editor allows you to splice data into HTML documents in a human-friendly manner. The application consists of a frontend plugin-driven editor which allows for the creation of meeting minutes and a backend powered by microservices. This collection describes each of the supported plugins, sets of plugins that can be used together, microservices that power…