The fourth edition of EU Datathon, the open data competition, has been launched on 19 February. This is your chance to demonstrate the potential that open data presents in today’s society and, of course, your creativity and talent! It is also your chance to claim your share of the total prize fund amounting to €100 000. The event is supported by ISA².
LEOS is a software tool helping those involved in drafting legislation, which is usually a complex process requiring efficient online collaboration. Comments, suggestions, version control, co-edition, everything is possible with LEOS. The software was released as open source and has developed a growing community around.
TESTA, a data communication network service supported by ISA², facilitates the cross-border exchange of health data between EU countries. Thanks to TESTA, Europeans can get their medication in another EU country, and in case of emergency while travelling abroad, doctors can give better care by accessing the patient's past health records.
The Single Interoperability Assessment Gateway (SIAG) provides a single point of access to all ISA² interoperability assessment solutions. These solutions help public administrations to design, develop, implement, evaluate and improve the interoperability of their digital public services and their various components.
Gertrud Ingestad, Director-General of DG Informatics at the European Commission, presented ISA² at the European Parliament in Brussels on 18 February. First, she presented the programme interim evaluation results to the ITRE Committee and then discussed the digital transformation of European public administrations with members of the IMCO Committee.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR), part of the ISA² Sharing and reuse action, will present the new structure of the OSOR collection and introduce the Knowledge Centre. The centre has already started producing country intelligence reports, guidelines for creating sustainable open source communities, case studies and other materials.
Today, the interoperability maturity of digital public services of public administrations in the EU scores on average at “essential” level. This means that the services implement the key interoperability aspects only in a basic way. Read the blog post by Raul Abril to learn how the IMAPS solution helps public service owners to upgrade their digital public service.
There is only one month left to take part in the Digital Innovation Challenge! SMEs and startups are invited to propose innovative services and solutions based on European Commission's ISA² Programme and open and reusable Connecting Europe Facility Building Blocks.
The LEOS software for collaborative drafting of legal texts was released as open source and has developed a growing community around. One of the active community members and a user of LEOS is Carlos Fernandez from the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Democratic Memory.
Today, the interoperability maturity of digital public services provided by EU public administrations scores on average at “essential” level. This means that the services implement the key interoperability aspects in a basic way: they use one digital channel, partial pre-filling or make a service catalogue publicly available.
The ELISE Action of the ISA² Programme is organising a webinar that will shed light on what organisational interoperability means from a digital government transformation perspective and for Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe. The webinar aims to gather emerging good practices and solutions for possible sharing and reuse.
The European Commission’s Open Source Observatory will be running an Open Source Software sustainability workshop at FOSDEM20 conference. The workshop will present the preliminary findings related to the guidelines on the sustainability of open source communities in the public sector.
The European Commission is putting together Guidelines for Building Sustainable Open Source Software Communities in the Public Sector. The guidelines will serve as a practical tool suitable for anyone who would like to create and maintain sustainable and healthy communities.
To support European public administrations in building interoperable public services, ISA² carried out a study to identify good practices and develop recommendations linked to organisational interoperability and integrated public service governance. While the study itself will be published soon, you can already watch a video summarising the recommendations!
The 23-page summary of EC’s open Project Management Methodology is now available in nine languages, with the newest additions being Dutch and Finnish. The document makes the project methodology easier to understand and more accessible.
Couldn't you make it to our first-ever Winter School on interoperability, organised together with KU Leuven? Watch the plenary sessions covering a range of topics such as European interoperability and the European Interoperability Framework, public sector innovation or the future of digital transformation.
The International Data Protection Day is celebrated on 28 January to raise awareness on the rights in relation to personal data protection. The General Data Protection Regulation added new rights and reinforced the existing ones. Semantic interoperability can facilitate enforcement of some of these rights, for example the right to access your data.
