On 29 November DIGITEC 2016: Digital Future attracted more than 850 attendees from the EU institutions for a day of inspiring discussions. 36 speakers debated on the workplace of the future, digital democracy and technologies of the future.
The first hackathon*, jointly organised by the European Commission (DIGIT), the European Parliament (DG ITEC) and the Council of the EU took place on 15th of October in Brussels. Five teams presented innovative ideas to improve the way of working with the help of new technologies.
The European Commission has published the results of the open public consultation on the revision of the European Interoperability Framework. Respondents from 27 countries sent a total of 179 contributions. The Commission will further analyse the results and take them into account when determining the type of instrument to propose.
To promote the visibility of IT solutions and to encourage their reuse, the European Commission has decided to single out the most used and successful ones in the public sector through the new EC Sharing and Reuse Awards.
The European Commission has launched the CEF Digital Portal, home to the CEF building blocks. Via the portal's collaborative platform, Public Administrations, Businesses and stakeholders can meet, discuss and collaborate on the CEF building blocks.
Are you looking for a comprehensive overview of eGovernment in your country? The European Commission has published its annual update of the eGovernment factsheets for the 28 EU Member States and some six further countries.
The EUR 131 million programme, which runs from 2016 to 2020, supports the development of interoperability solutions for the modernisation of public administrations across Europe.
The European Commission is holding a half day information session on Thursday 26 May for software vendors, system integrators, implementers and training providers interested in AS4 profile. The event is part of CEF Digital program.
Make your voice heard - take part in an the public consultation launched by ISA², the new European Commission programme to promote interoperability between public administrations, businesses and citizens
The Portal will be the central online hub for information and tools related to the CEF building blocks and provide information on the Sector Specific Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI).
The award decision for the first Call for Tender for Cloud Services (CLOUD I) was signed. The tender is the first decisive step for the European Commission towards the use of the Cloud for its own systems.
The annual ISA conference took place on 3 March 2016 in Crowne Plaza Hotel in Brussels.
DIGIT will perform a security audit of the free and open source solutions used by the European Parliament and the European Commission.
Vice-president Andrus Ansip and Commissioner Günther Oettinger inaugurated CERT-EU's new premises today. The Computer Security Incident Response Team of the EU institutions moved into new headquarters to accommodate its increase in staffing and expansion of activity.
The European Commission published a new Web app with a collection of more than 500 EU funded projects.
The ISA programme of the European Commission has recently published 20 eGovernment solutions for public administrations. Most of the them are available free of charge, and many of them are open source.
How best to deliver public services more efficiently, while broadening inclusion both in access to services and in participation in democratic functions? Stephen Quest, Director General of DIGIT, is joining the debate in the ''Public Sector Transformation'' conference in Brussels.
In the terms of the agreement, the Commission will host a central service of the eDelivery network – the Service Metadata Locator - which allows participants in the network to dynamically locate each other across Europe.
The 10-point document focuses on the procurement of open source software and the Commission's services contribution to open source software projects. The strategy also provides for more of the software developed within the Commission to be published as open source.
