29 April 2019

News

Save the date: SEMIC 2019

The 9th edition of SEMIC, the annual semantic interoperability conference, will take place in Helsinki, Finland on 21 October 2019. The event is organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The theme of SEMIC 2019 is ‘Linking data spaces for citizens’.

Shortlisted solutions for the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019 made public!

We are pleased to announce the first results of the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019. The second edition of the contest received 68 submissions from public administrations of 20 different countries, out of which 16 solutions have been shortlisted. Final results will be announced at the Sharing & Reuse Conference on 11 June in Bucharest.

ISA² Work Programme for 2019 adopted

The European Commission has adopted the 2019 revision of the ISA² rolling work programme on 26 March 2019. The new work programme includes 54 actions; 43 actions are ongoing from previous years and one is new. For 10 actions from the previous years, no additional funding is necessary to ensure their completion.

Report on Organisational Interoperability and Public Service Governance published. Participate in our survey!

Read the final report on the workshop on Organisational Interoperability and Public Service Governance that provides an overview of the workshop discussions and findings. To build up a greater store of good practices, we also invite you to participate in a related survey open until 10 May.

ISA² Action of the month: Access to Base Registries

Access to Base Registries in a nutshell

Access to Base Registries is an action run by the ISA² Programme focused on helping public administrations to provide better public services to businesses and citizens. Learn about main objectives and benefits in the video.

How Access to Base Registries helps public administrations with information reuse

Instead of asking citizens for information that they have already provided, the Access to Base Registries Action tries to help public administrations to implement solutions that focus on the reuse of this information through base registries. Read the blog post by Peter Burian, Project Officer for Access to Base Registries.

Testimonial by Oleksandr Ryzhenko

Oleksandr Ryzhenko, Head of the State Agency for eGovernance: The Access to Base Registries recommendations are used for example for the development of the TREMBITA interaction system (X-Road based state registries’ interaction system) when it comes on the technical level of interoperability. Read the full testimonial.

Highlights from webinar on Specification of Registry of Registries

The Access to Base Registries webinar that took place on 8 April provided an opportunity to discuss best practices and share ideas on the creation of a specification for the registry of registries. Recording, presentations and other materials are available online.

Blog

Susanne Wigard, ISA² Programme Manager, SEMIC action

Can artificial intelligence make sense of public administrations' data?

Public administrations are experimenting with – and in some cases already successfully using – various applications of AI: chatbots, text mining, image recognition, traffic supervision and many more. Can artificial intelligence make sense of public administrations' data?

Events

7 May 2019, Brussels

Interim Evaluation of the ISA² Programme: Final Workshop

Over the past five months, Centre for European Policy Studies has conducted an independent interim evaluation of ISA² for the European Commission. At the final workshop, the results will be presented and discussed with stakeholders.

21-22 May 2019, Tallinn

e-Governance Conference 2019

e-Governance experts, decision makers, donors, and civil society groups will meet in Tallinn to discuss the challenges states face when engaging digital citizens. During, the event, don't miss the sessions with Head of Interoperability Unit, Natalia Aristimuño Pérez, and visit the ISA² stand.

28 May 2019

Webinar: Mastering Joinup to your advantage

This webinar aims to provide you with all the needed background information, key concepts, and guidelines for effectively using Joinup to your advantage. You will also learn about upcoming features.

18-19 May 2019, Bucharest

Single digital gateway hackathon - Bucharest edition

The Bucharest single digital gateway hackathon is one of a series of high-level hackathons hosted across Europe. Citizens, businesses, professionals, students, NGOs… any creative minds can put their heads together to shape the all-in-one digital gateway for smarter e-services.

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