Sharing information is vital and formats need to be interoperable. Standards are important to avoid fragmentation and secure interoperability.

It is important to showcase real-life experiences as a tool to demonstrate that solutions exist and work and could be leveraged cross-border and cross-sector.

While many Member States have already introduced digital service infrastructures that drive competitiveness and markedly improve the daily lives of their citizens, there is currently a lack of interconnection and interoperability among such systems at European level.

The Commission is funding the deployment Digital Service Infrastructures developed under the Connected Europe Facility (CEF) to roll-out the IT building blocks tested since several years by Large Scale Pilot projects to ensure interoperability (such as e-Procurement, e-ID, e-Delivery, e-Signature) and linking up Member States’ infrastructures. CEF is a funding programme for trans-European projects in the area of energy, transport and telecommunications (Telecom). CEF Telecom will invest €1.14 billion, during the period 2014-2020, in the availability of broadband (€170 million) and access to online services across Europe (€970 million).

The CEF Telecom policy background, Work Programmes and other information is available online:

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/connecting-europe-facility.

To know more about the CEF building blocks:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/cef/og_page/catalogue-building-blocks

To know more about the IT Governance Model of CEF Building Blocks:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/cef/document/it-governance-model-cef-building-block-digital-service-infrastructures-dsis

Below are a few messages from the events:

National authorities should agree that electronic identification under eIDAS is irrefutable proof of identity.

Interoperability with the US would be of particular importance for banks.

other messages can be found:

For the banking sector: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/eid-business-case-banking-and-finance-community

On growth and innovation: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/eidas-private-sector-engagement-high-level-event