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Before Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin, there was a first attempt to create a decentralised and cryptographic digital money by cryptographer David Schaum. Focused on privacy, he laid the groundwork of a new concept, the so-called public key encryption ("Blind signatures for untraceable payments").

The EBSI Technology Group has advanced on the design and development set-up for the EBSI 1 MVP. There have been in-depth discussions with the Member States on the use case requirements. In addition, the group has on-boarded new people with key skill sets for the next project phases and the selection of the technical components to build the EBSI software stack.

The 16 July 2019 political guidelines confirm the EU’s ambition to grasp the opportunities from the digital age, leading the way on next-generation “hyperscalers”, including major investments in blockchain. Distributed technologies permeate economic activities and public services at large. Their importance as a driver of growth in the EU's and global economy will likely continue to increase.

The objective of this event is to shed light on terminology-related challenges, tools and resources in various scenarios and to stimulate discussions on terminology in language terminology.

This event will focus on shaping Europe’s multilingual future through the sharing of language data. It will include a variety of interesting talks and panel discussions that provide a critical analysis of challenges the CEF-affiliated countries are currently facing with regard to sharing and using language data.

The objective of this event is to introduce Digital Service Infrastructures and their stakeholders at Member State level to speech technology.

This event will provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss the main policy drivers of the digital transformation of European industry and society - including the CEF Building Blocks.

On 25 April 2019, experts from national archives and the European Commission held a workshop on the topic of Information Packages, an important element of digital archiving.

The largest level of CEF grant funding was awarded to actions helping public entities adopt the European standard on electronic invoicing, which received €27.6 million financing 42 actions.

The INEA publication takes an extensive look at the CEF programme 2014-2019. During this time, 16 dedicated calls were launched for the five established Building Blocks, allocating €75.3 million in CEF Telecom funding to 128 actions.

By 2020, EBSI will become a CEF Building Block, providing reusable software, specifications and services to support adoption by EU institutions and European public administrations.

The European Commission has published the recently modified location of the ‘list of trusted lists’ (LOTL), as well its latest set of signing certificates in the Official Journal of the European Union.

European statistical offices use BDTI to experiment with big data and to find new ways of collecting statistics for more accurate results.