Annual work programme for the implementation of the single digital gateway regulation was published on 31 July 2019. The work programme specifies actions to facilitate the implementation and provides a detailed timeline for the various steps. The document covers the period from July 2019 to December 2020.
The Digital Economy Unit of the Joint Research Centre is looking for a Scientific Project Officer to work on the Innovative Public Services project supported by ISA². The position is based in Ispra, Italy. If you are interested, click on the link below and go to the section "Growth and Innovation". The deadline for applications is 4 September 2019.
Watch a short video with project officers Susanne Wigard and Pavlina Fragkou introducing GeoDCAT-AP. They explain the way GeoDCAT-AP describes geospatial datasets, dataset series and services, thus making it easier to discover geodata.
Registration is now open for the annual semantic interoperability conference! The event is organised by ISA² in collaboration with the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU. It will bring together policy makers, IT practitioners and researchers interested in topics related to semantic interoperability for public administrations.
In this workshop organised by ISA², you will meet experts from various EU countries and academia to learn and discuss how the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) can improve organisational and governance aspects of digital public services. It is a follow-up of the first workshop held in March.
The event represents the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). During the event, visit the ISA² stand in the expo area.
Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) decided to implement GeoDCAT-AP to achieve an interoperable integration and coordination of two Italian catalogues - the national catalogue for spatial data and the national open data portal. Read more in the interview with Antonio Rotundo and Gabriele Ciasullo from AgID.
Putting citizens first and involving them through co-creation in designing digital public services is a key opportunity for improving public service availability, quality and efficiency in cities and regions. Join us at the European Week of Regions and Cities on 8 October 2019 to discuss the ways to better shape citizen-centric services.
Information on legal entities and their powers and mandates is essential for businesses when establishing relationships with governments, customers or other businesses. However, the cross-border exchange of information is limited due to the lack of semantic standards. To tackle this issue, ISA² released the Representation of Powers and Mandates ontology.
After a long wait and rigorous data collection process, the new 2019 Digital Government Factsheets are now published. These factsheets are a prime source of country intelligence on all digital government-related matters in Europe, capturing information on the long-term trends shaping this policy area.
Location data can become personal when linked with other data. An updated version of the Guidelines for Public Administrations on Location Privacy reflects the recent development in the data protection field and its impact on location data.
A new release of the Online Collection System (OCS) for the European Citizens’ Initiative is out! This version includes major upgrades in terms of accessibility and maintainability of the application. The OCS is a tool that permits the collection of statements of support in a way that complies with the Regulation on the European Citizens' Initiative.
The LegIT ISA² action is glad to announce the release of a new component - ISA² Open CMIS Repo. It is an implementation of the CMIS open standard for document management. Together with that, an upgraded version of LEOS, a tool that facilitates drafting of legislative texts, has been made available.
New materials on the ISA² interim evaluation are available. You can read the full text of the evaluation study by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and its executive summary, as well as the synopsis report of the consultation activities. The European Commission will draw its evaluation conclusions based on the CEPS study by 30 September.
The Core Criterion and Core Evidence Vocabulary (CCCEV) has been developed as part of the e-Government Core Vocabularies solution under the ISA² Programme. The webinar will present the evolution of CCCEV and give an outlook on future changes.
Nearly 150 participants attended the Sharing & Reuse Conference 2019 that took place on 11 June in Bucharest, Romania. An additional 300 people from all over the world followed the event via live stream. The presentations of all speakers and photos are now available.
“Interoperability and cross-border solutions are foremost a solution for increased transparency, open government and democracy. Joinup is the perfect tool for this,” says Daniel Melin, Senior Procurement Officer - ICT, Swedish National Procurement Services. Read the full testimonial.
Joinup’s raison d'être is, simply put, to consolidate in a single point-of-reference all scattered open source interoperability solutions that reside in disparate online locations. Read the blog post about current developments and future improvements by Joinup project managers.
Joinup is a collaborative platform created by the European Commission and funded by the ISA² Programme. It provides tools that aim to help eGovernment professionals share their experience and best practices with each other. Watch the video interview to learn more about what Joinup offers.
