The coronavirus affects our society and brings along many challenges to everyone's professional and personal lives. The new Joinup collection Digital Response to COVID-19 is a database of solutions and initiatives that help fight against the coronavirus.

Within the context of ISA² action Electronic Access to European Commission Documents, the project team from the Secretariat-General of the Commission and Deloitte Digital gathered for a week packed full of design-thinking.

A new version of LEOS, the open source software for legislation drafting, is available on Joinup. This third major release brings new features and improvements concerning version management, comparison view, and more.

Tomáš Šedivec has used IMAPS for assessing a number of digital public services provided by public administrations in the Czech Republic, such as the Czech Ministry of Health.

On 30 April 2020, 14:00 CEST, the ELISE Action of the ISA² Programme is organising a webinar "Location Intelligence and Partnerships to support the Sustainable Development Goals".

On 28 April 2020, 12:00 CEST, the Access to Base Registeries Action of the ISA² Programme is organising an online meeting to present the foreseen activities and discuss the proposal of the reusable tools.

A new study "The Role of Digital Government in the European Semester process 2019" is now available. The report was published on 16 April within the framework of the “National Interoperability Framework Observatory" Action of the ISA² Programme.

The European Interoperability Framework government report on Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens is now published. The study was carried out to support the development of digital solutions for public administrations.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Eurostat and the National Statistical Institutes are doing their best to continue publishing relevant statistics of the highest quality. All efforts are focused on providing European statistics on the outbreak that show the changing situation from March 2020 onwards.

The European Commission and North Macedonia have signed an agreement, granting the country access to the EU programme to develop and share solutions for digital public administrations.

Big news for the interoperability community!

Tomáš Šedivec has used IMAPS for assessing a number of digital public services provided by public administrations in the Czech Republic, such as the Czech Ministry of Health. He shared with us his IMAPS user experience and explained the benefits of IMAPS for his organisation.

Open PM² is an Open Project Management methodology developed by the European Commission and used by many other institutions. The methodology was created to make project management easier and reduce costs.

The Cartography of Reusable Solutions for Base Registries Interconnection provides information on more than 120 solutions from EU institutions and other organisations, EU Member States and other countries, aiming to inspire people working on base registries and to facilitate re-use of suitable solutions.

Archival institutions searching for IT solutions to support their business activities often consider the organisation of proofs of concepts to identify the best tools. Within the Standards-based archival data management action supported by the ISA² programme, a methodology has been identified to guide institutions through this complex process.

The European Commission is now releasing the presentation with training material from the one-day course called Project Management Methodology Essentials to further support institutions, organizations and European citizens in understanding the methodology and use it as appropriate.

In 2019, the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs commissioned a study on the uptake of emerging technologies in public procurement. This study explored how public authorities around the globe are using new technologies when procuring goods and services. The results of the Digital Transformation of Public Procurement study are now publicly available online.