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Success Stories / Policy

DigitALL Public: How the CEF Building Blocks and interoperability solutions have transformed Europe

This event included inspiring interventions, testimonials and received insights from more than 200 speakers in 56 dedicated sessions. More than 1500 digital enthusiasts connected from 33 countries, clearly demonstrating the interest in the question of how Building Blocks and interoperability solutions can make our lives better. Take a look at the recordings, highlights from the event and the aftermovie!

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The CEF eID Building Block helps improve the student experience in Europe

Supported by the CEF eID Building Block, MyAcademicID (MyAID) will bridge existing digital infrastructure gaps among higher education students across Member States.

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Sweden, France and Malta pre-notifiy eID schemes

Europe's interconnected network of national electronic IDs, or the eIDAS network, is set to grow, with three further countries – Sweden, France and Malta – pre-notifying their eID schemes.

Conference on the Future of Europe: CEF eTranslation facilitates inclusive dialogue among EU citizens

This conference is an historic opportunity for citizens to influence the future of the European Union. The conference's platform is a new interactive instrument and unique example of participatory democracy. Translation, in part, powers its multilingual aspects.

Distributed ledger technologies shaping the future of digital governments

Joao Rodrigues Frade, Head of Sector for Digital Building Blocks in the European Commission, presented the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) at an event on distributed ledger technologies and how they shape the future of digital governments.

Technical update

eArchiving begins fourth open review of the eArchiving specifications and guidelines

The documents for review are the Content Information Type Specification for eHealth2, the guideline for the Content Information Type Specification for eHealth 2 and a white paper on the E-ARK AIP (Archival Information Package). The closing date for comments is 18 July 2021.

eTranslation makes general text engines available in five languages

eTransaltion now makes new general text engines available in five languages: German, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian and Polish. In addition to the general improvement brought about by more data, better data filtering and adjustments to the machine learning processes, a specific processing step now helps to handle long sentences better.

Events

CEF eArchiving webinar series: 27/05, 10/06 and 24/06

The next three live webinars in the 2021 series will look respectively at an introduction to CSIP, the practical applications of digital archiving and practical applications of digital archiving submission agreements.

Meet Big Data Test Infrastructure: 27/05

This webinar is a chance to learn more about BDTI and gain insights on how it can help public administrations analyse and experiment with big data, move towards data-driven decision making, and create synergies with other organisations, enlarging their own network and opportunities.

eArchiving Geospatial Digital Records Preservation Conference, 01-02/06

This conferences will highlight the key factors affecting the handling of geospatial data, its preservation and future reuse. Participants can connect with other members of the geospatial community and share everyday challenges, experience and solutions, and to learn from each other.