Online meeting via Webex
Event summary
The CEF eDelivery team is organising the sugroup meeting focusing on the work on the future of eDelivery. This work will include a focus on REST-based API extensions to eDelivery and possible use of Blockchain technology.
Participants:
| European Commission | Member States' representatives | |
|---|---|---|
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Draft Agenda
Item | Time | Who |
Welcome and introduction | 15 mins | Dietmar Gattwinkel, DG CNECT H4 |
Presentation of JRC’s APIs4DGov study:
| 25 mins | Monica Posada, JRC B6 |
REST-based API extensions for eDelivery: How REST APIs can be used to support eDelivery in addressing specific use cases?
| 30 mins | Bogdan Dumitriu, DIGIT D3 |
Break | ||
Brainstorm on possible use cases for REST-based API extensions for eDelivery based on input received from meeting participants | 80 mins | Joao Rodrigues Frade, Bogdan Dumitriu, Maarten Daniels, Ines Costa, DIGIT D3 Meeting participants to contribute to the discussion |
Useful links:
- CEF eDelivery on the CEF Digital Website
- CEF eDelivery funding
- CEF Digital monitoring dashboard
About the ISA² action on Innovative Public Services:
In the ISA² Work Programme for 2020, the action on Innovative Public Services has, among others, the objective of developing relevant legal, organisational and technical artefacts trialled through an extension and combination of the CEF eDelivery building block with blockchain based transactions’ log and a REST-based profile (a.k.a. APIs approach), that support new patterns of data access by request and data sharing.
The work related to the REST-based profile will take as input the JRC study on 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:
- A set of guidelines and specifications for establishing interoperable REST-based APIs for service invocation and publication of both open and protected data. Sample library implementation for API’s as well as software supporting central/core services such as service catalogues and service discovery could be also in scope.
- Extension of eDelivery with other building blocks and innovative technical approaches such as blockchain and APIs. Should the pilots be successful, the CEF eDelivery building block will be enriched with a REST-based profile and a blockchain-based log of transactions. Every element will be modular so that it can be used in combination with the existing AS4-profile (of eDelivery) or on its own.
About CEF eDelivery:
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.).