Summary
| Contact point | Ministry of Economics Sirli Heinsoo sirli.heinsoo@itl.ee |
| Date | 24th April 2019 |
| Venue | Ministry of Economics, Tallinn |
| Room capacity | 100+ |
| Target audience (and expected number of attendees) | Small and Medium sized Enterprises Public Authorities Universities |
Participants
More than 40 participants from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Norway and Denmark participated in the workshop held by Ministry of Economic, through DiggInno project in the BSR. Presentations from CEF, Latvia, Finland, Estonia and Finland as well as implementation section from CEF eInvoicing team was showcased. Participants was users, SMEs, and some public authorities.
Background
The CEF programme (Connecting Europe Facility) is launched by the European Commission (EC) to support development of a digital infrastructure. The CEF building blocks offer basic capabilities that can be used in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public (and private) services across borders. The CEF building blocks aim to facilitate delivery of digital public (and private) services across borders by ensuring interoperability between IT systems so that citizens, businesses and administrations can benefit from seamless digital public (and private) services wherever they may be in Europe. Digital cross border services related to the following CEF BB’s are highly relevant for the work towards interoperability in DIGINNO WP3: e-ID & esignature, e-delivery, e-invoicing and (recently) blockchain. CEF Building Blocks are basic digital service infrastructures, which are key enablers to be reused in more complex digital services. They are based on interoperability agreements between EU member states. EC is encouraging public and private sector in the member states to implement CEF BB’s in the way they find it useful, i.e. the main responsibility lies at national level. Insight in the national implementation will tell us about the state of readiness regarding cross border e-business delivery and help us to focus DIGINNO’s work towards real needs (e.g policy recommendations and interoperability agreements). Basic introduction to CEF BB’s: Building Blocks
Agenda
09:30-10:00 Registration, coffee/tea
10:00-10:10 Welcome by organisers
10:10-10:20 Introduction: Why are CEF BB’s important? Kristo Vaher, Govt CTO, Estonia
10:20-11:00 CEF Building Blocks and opportunities Introduction to CEF BB (e-invoicing, e-ID, e-delivery, blockchain), funding opportunities, EC directive and future plans after 2020 Christian Vindinge Rasmussen, Erik-Martin Forsberg, European Commission representitives
11:00-11:30 The national implementation seen from EU Evaluation on the national implementation of CEF BB-s seen from EU level – which countries are lagging behind and within what BBs, which countries are still missing some BBs? Any recommendations from EC on national policy making or how to promote the uptake of CEF BBs? Christian Vindinge Rasmussen, Erik-Martin Forsberg, European Commission representitives
11:30-12:30 Lunch (in-house)
12:30-13:30 Examples of member states implementation Overview of the national state-of–play regarding CEF BBs (based on finished/ongoing/future planned CEF projects); share their experience/thoughts on implementing BBs with list of possible challenges; how to promote the uptake of the CEF BBs nationally with list of possible challenges and how can private sector contribute? Lithuania: Virginijus Jasaitis, INFOBALT Estonia: Kristo Vaher, Government CTO Latvia: Lauris Linabergs, VARAM Finland: Pirjo Ilola, State Treasury of Finland
13:30-14:15 Panel discussion: How to overcome the legal and technical challenges on implementing CEF BBs? How to promote the uptake of the CEF BBs nationally?
14:15-14:30 Energy break
14:30-15:30 Workshop Introduced by Knud Erik Skouby, AAU
15:30-15:50 Workshop conclusions
15:50-15:55 Next steps Ruta Šatrovaite, INFOBALT
16:00 Closure