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About the 2020 ISA² action on Innovative Public |
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This project is about the following specific activities (major outputs) within the 2020 ISA2 Innovative Public Services (IPS) action:
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The work related to the REST-based profile will take as input the Joint Research Centre (JRC |
) study on Application Programming Interfaces for Digital Government (APIs4DGov) that analysed the API technological landscape and its standards and technical specifications for general purpose use. This aims to support the definition of stable APIs for digital government services, avoiding the need to develop ad hoc solutions and helping stakeholders in the identification and selection of such solutions. |
The scope of the ISA² action will be to develop the following:
This work is based on the collaboration with the members of the API4IPS working group and their input. It will also propose some events and produce a series of deliverables. |
Please do not hesitate to contact us at CEF-BUILDING-BLOCKS@ec.europa.eu for more information. |
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The Meetings section includes information about previous and upcoming meetings of the Working group on the ISA² action on Innovative Public Services.
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Future of CEF eDelivery: Integration with CEF EBSI (blockchain) |
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This activity will aim to leverage the blockchain services offered by the CEF EBSI building block in order to offer two additional capabilities in CEF eDelivery:
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Future of CEF eDelivery: REST API profile |
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The proposed solution is to develop a specification/profile for a REST API to cater to “light context” use cases. The new profile will be built on top of the REST architecture pattern and will adopt technology to support this pattern. This new profile would aim to bring new technological options to the eDelivery building block while maintaining the eDelivery goals of:
The new specification would enable the implementation of eDelivery-compliant data exchange benefiting from:
If successful, the profile could in the future be formally added to the CEF eDelivery building block and eventually included in broader scope initiatives covering new areas for d-GOV. About the CEF building blocks The CEF building blocks provide basic services which can be reused to enable more complex digital public services offered to citizens, businesses and public administration. They provide reusable tools and services helping to underpin the Digital Single Market, that aims to remove digital regulatory barriers, contributing as much as EUR 415 billion per year to the European economy. The CEF Digital Portal is the home of the CEF building blocks (e.g., eDelivery, eID, eInvoicing, eSignature and eTranslation). It is the one-stop-shop for information about the building blocks. The portal provides access to tools, services and software that can be used in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders. About the CEF eDelivery building blockIn particular, the CEF eDelivery building block helps public administrations and businesses (and indirectly citizens) to participate in eDelivery Messaging Infrastructures which facilitate organisation-to-organisation messaging by enabling their systems to interact with each other in a secure, reliable and trusted way. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital Programme, is currently promoting the adoption of common standards in the eDelivery Messaging Infrastructures in different policy domains (Business Registers, eJustice, eProcurement, etc.). |
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API guidelines for government |
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This work, strictly linked to the extension of CEF eDelivery building block |
, investigates API-related essentials that government organisations need to be concerned about when implementing their digital agendas. Specifically, it will explore technical essentials i) that ensure the stability and continuity of digital solutions (management of the life-cycle of the APIs); ii) that foster the use of the API solutions (discoverability); iii) that protect the digital infrastructure of the organisation (security) and; iv) that incorporate privacy and traceability concerns in their processes. Additionally, it will investigate legal and organisational essentials of the provision and use of APIs from government perspectives. This work takes as an input the European Commission application programming interfaces (APIs) for digital government (APIs4DGov) study that aims to understand the role of APIs in the public sector and, specifically, the motivations for their use and the way governments should implement them. The final report of the study (ongoing publication) concludes that:
Publications and documents |