Going local Italia 2013 - Roma, 3 giugno e Milano, 4 giugno

This event offers an opportunity to explore and discuss how Public Administrations can use semantic technologies to make information exchange more efficient and effective, allowing them to operate at lower costs and provide better services. The conference programme addresses topics such as: Basic data for public services; Open Standards for eGovernment; Data interoperability in the Cloud and on the World-Wide Web; Open Government Data and interoperability; Putting interoperability solutions in...

This conference will bring together Chief Information Officers and ICT managers from local government as well as business leaders. The goal of the event is to find answers to today’s challenges regarding ICT in cities. Participants will showcase key implementations and ideas, share experiences, facilitate debate and exchange views through presentations, roundtables, one-to-one discussions and workshops.

This conference will explore the emerging technologies and trends that are changing the way policy is made. Policy-making 2.0 refers to a blend of emerging and fast developing technologies that enable better, more timely and more participated decision-making in government. The aim of the conference is to cross-fertilize projects to support community building and to learn from each other. Over these two days many topics will be discussed including: open and big data, visual analytics, modelling...

The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe.

European citizens are becoming increasingly mobile, and upcoming opportunities are growing for students and citizens alike.

One major issue in helping mobility is decreasing the administrative burden linked to moving; how can a citizen easily carry over his personal information from one administration to another?  How can a student provide access to his course curricula and results to a new university?

But as importantly, how can the citizens and the students retain full...

The European Commission launched today an online public consultation on research and innovation in ICT-driven public sector innovation. The answers will help to prepare Horizon 2020 forthcoming Work Programmes. All the interested stakeholders: national administrations, businesses, researchers, innovators, academia and interested users can provide their ideas on research and innovation activities at the EU level. The consultation will be open until 15 April 2013.