Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation

Ethics, skills and training have been at the centre of our work for the past few weeks. As to the former, we harvested a lot of rich insights about digital-ready lawmaking & ethics during our June virtual breakfast. Regarding skills & training, we have launched our BLSI Learning Hub recently and we propose to co-shape the BLSI training path in our September virtual breakfast together!

As part of this summer newsletter edition, you will see that we have many very interesting events waiting for us in autumn. In the meantime though, we all deserve a safe and relaxing summer break… so:

We wish you a very nice summer and we look forward to see you again back in September!

Kind regards,

The Legal Interoperability Team

P.S. As always, do not hesitate to contact us if you want to promote some of your events or initiatives or if you have any input or question.

We are very happy to launch our brand new BLSI Learning Hub!

As part of building this hub, we have identified a number of learning needs relevant to BLSI. We would very much like to gather your feedback on the list of needs, as well as the identified material and training offer.

Visit our Learning Hub and provide your feedback here!

Join our September virtual breakfast as well (see below) to learn more!

As part of our June virtual breakfast, we discussed the ethical implications of digital-ready policymaking with our community and guest speakers. We were fascinated by your insightful inputs and fresh ideas!

Consult the webinar takeaways and recording here.

Standards are particularly important for interoperability and the reuse of existing standards is key for digital-ready policies. The EU is currently inviting all stakeholders to contribute to the ongoing consultation on the roadmap for a new standardisation strategy.

Read more about it here and participate in the consultation before 9 August!

We believe that skills and training is paramount in order to build capacity to create legislation that will be fit for the digital age, interoperable and smoothly implementable . Therefore, we are currently developing our BLSI Learning Hub, which will soon include a series of online courses on different topics related to BLSI.

As part of our September BLSI Virtual Breakfast, we will present the learning hub and gather your feedback on the learning needs and material that we have identified. We will also present our very first online course What is "Better legislation for smoother implementation" and why it needs teamwork (soon to be released). But first and foremost, in this webinar we will co-shape with you the future BLSI training offer!

Visit the event page and register here!

The ReMeP 2021 - Research Meets Practice, is taking place from 5 to 7 September 2021. The event aims to connect researchers who wish to present their projects with practitioners and businesses looking for legal informatics solutions. This year’s ReMeP will focus on computational law and legal knowledge graphs.

Click here for more information and to register!

The EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 will focus on topics that are key for digital-ready policymaking including e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, as well as other related topics. It will gather a multidisciplinary group of participants from academia to businesses, as well as NGOs and public administrations.

Click here for more information and to register!

The LEX2021 Summer School is an intensive, 6-day program that aims to provide knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, judiciary, parliamentary and administrative documents. It fosters an understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative and administrative process, awareness of the tools based on legal XML standards (Akoma Ntoso, LegalRuleML) and their constellations (Ontology, UNDO), and the ability to participate in the preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout law-making process.

Click here for more and information and to register!

As part of our BLSI community, we are constantly exploring how technology may support lawmaking, as well as how policy can enable the development of these new technologies. The 2021 OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum is a key event to attend in order to stay tuned on recent developments and emerging challenges in the area of blockchain.

Click here for more information and to register!

The ICEGOV (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance) is an annual global multi-stakeholder conference promoting the sharing of knowledge on Electronic Governance. It bridges research and public policy in order to enhance innovation in this field, with a particular focus on sustainable development, social inclusion and active citizenship.

Click here for more information and to register!