Blockchain technology has enormous potential to enhance the way that citizens, governments, and businesses interact, by enhancing trust between entities and improving the efficiency of operations. The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) is a joint initiative from the European Commission and the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) to deliver EU-wide cross-border public services using blockchain technology. The EBSI will be materialised as a network of distributed nodes across Europe (the blockchain), leveraging an increasing number of applications focused on specific use cases…

The amount of data generated worldwide increases at an astounding pace - by 40% annually and will increase 30 fold between 2010-2020. Due to the segmentation of public services and due to using non-interoperable means to describe data, most of the data generated in the public sector is not available for re-use. This action, titled 'Big Data for Public Administrations', aims at addressing the use of big data within public administrations' as a means for enabling wiser decision making. With recent technologies such as big data, data mining, social media, cloud etc. organisations have greater…

This community brings together experts working with enterprise architecture for the production of official statistics in Europe. It fosters the exchange of good practices regarding building and implementing Enterprise Architecture (EA) for Statistical Organisations. Statistical enterprise architecture clarifies and supports business goals, aligns them to evolving business and user needs in the domain of statistics. SEA ensures that the IT strategy and tools support a common vision and needs, removing organisational silos. Working together on an enterprise architecture reference framework, we…

OpenEuropa is a Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) initiative aiming at strengthening the adoption of Open Source tools and practices in consolidating the European Institutions web presence. In order to achieve such a goal the OpenEuropa initiative will focus on the following activities: Build, maintain and release loosely-coupled, reusable software components, licensed under EUPL-1.2. Build, maintain and release fully-fledged solutions for the European Institutions. Provide a high-level architecture overview of web-related information systems. Establish reusable technical governance…

This is a dedicated space for sharing tools and guidance aiming at evaluating and rationalising interoperability solutions for public administrations. Currently, the Cartography page includes the TES Cartography (TESCart) and the European Interoperability Cartography (EIC). The two tools are developed under ISA² Action 2016.36 Assessment of TES Supporting EU Policies. They are described below: TES Cartography (TESCart) TES cartography means a repository of Trans-European interoperability solutions for European public administrations provided by European Union institutions, presented in a…

This is the collection of the agency of eGovernment of Uruguay

Improving national and cross-border access to government data Base registries represent authoritative databases and a trusted source of basic information on data items such as people, companies, vehicles, licences, buildings, locations and roads. The ISA² Action 2016.28 ‘Access to Base Registries’ (ABR) aims at defining a common framework for base registries access and interconnection, and developing supporting tools that would make national and cross-border access to the base registries more efficient. To achieve these goals: 1) all Member States should follow closely and respect the Once…

Many initiatives exist across EU members concerning the implementation of the Web Accessibility Directive. This collection intends to provide a central location in which members and related bodies can share useful information and tooling to assist in the implementation and monitoring associated with it.