By replacing handwritten signatures with electronic signatures that are recognised throughout Europe, hospitals and other healthcare establishments can combat the coronavirus directly by minimising unnecessary contact, while still instilling a high level of trust.
In the wake of Italy’s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, cities like Florence start to look towards recovery, with a focus on returning to normality while avoiding relapse. CEF Big Data Test Infrastructure is helping them get there.
On 16 July 2020, the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) held a Virtual Info Day on the second 2020 CEF Telecom call, which includes grant funding for projects using CEF eArchiving (€1 million) and Public Open Data (€3 million). The event gave advice on how to submit a strong proposal for grant funding.
On 3 July 2020, the European Commission held a webinar to explore how they could collaborate with Digital Innovation Hubs to accelerate the digital transformation of the public sector in the EU, by disseminating free, reusable digital solutions.
This public consultation will be open until 2 October 2020 and will take into account the latest technological and policy developments.
The CEF eSignature team ran a pilot demonstrating how to implement QWACs, which authenticate websites by providing trusted information about the identity of persons or legal entities behind a website, instilling trust online and making the internet a safer place for consumers.
The Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) has decided to use the CEF eDelivery building block to provide a highly secure means of using their machine translation tool, CEF eTranslation.
Digdir, the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, is using the CEF big data tool, the Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI), to help optimise public procurement in Norway by analysing transactional data.
The ISO (International Organisation for Standardization) approved AS4, the message exchange protocol underpinning the CEF eDelivery Building Block, as an International Standard.
