During its meeting on 6 June 2013, the IT Planning Council gave the green light for work on the ‘Digital Agenda Germany’ to begin.

On 30 May 2013 the Government approved a bill on the "public administration delivery of electronic forms and amendment of certain other acts" (Act on eGovernment).

Launched on 28 May 2013, the ‘10th eGovernment Benchmark 2012 - Insight Report’ of the Directorate-General of Communications Networks, Content & Technology reveals that 46 % of EU citizens use online public services. The report surveyed 28 000 Internet users across 32 countries.

In May 2013, the Deputy Minister of Administrative Reform and Electronic Governance, Mr Manousos Voloudakis, disseminated to all Citizen's Service Centres (KEP) a circular newsletter that provides guidance on the way in which a range of services to citizens – currently 81 – can be handled entir

On 25 April 2013, Milanka Opačić, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Policy and Youth along with the Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Public Administration, Darko Parić, presented the eCitizens project.

According to an announcement made in late April 2013 on the website of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, the latest release of the European Commission’s Internal Market Information System (IMI) has been launched.

The European Medicines Agency has recently upgraded its EudraGMP database with information on good distribution practice (GDP) in addition to good manufacturing practice (GMP).

Experts from across Northern Ireland gathered during the second week of April 2013 to mark the success of the Telemonitoring NI service.

The European Commission invites metadata experts who directly or indirectly work for a governmental data portal to participate in a working group that will define a common model for exchanging information about data sets between data portals in Europe.

A new site has been recently launched as part of the European FP7 ‘Personal Health Systems (PHS) Foresight’ project with the objective to provide a forum for long-term coordination and strategic guidance across different PHS areas of application.

In March 2013, the Federal Government announced the creation of a new management system for secure access to online public services and eGovernment applications.

As announced on 25 March 2013, the Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa – AMA, in Portuguese) and the Technical Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros Técnicos – OET, in Portuguese) signed an agreement for the creation of a digital signature for technical engin

On 28 February 2013, the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Eesti Haigekassa, in Estonian) and the Estonian E-Health Foundation (Eesti E-tervise Sihtasutus, in Estonian) signed a memorandum of cooperation for the development of eServices and data standards in the health sector.

The seventh edition of the eHealth Week will take place on 13-15 May at the Convention Centre in Dublin under the title ‘Innovative Healthcare & Well-being’. It will present the views and ideas of the world’s health IT experts and showcase cutting-edge health ICT.

The European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have agreed on a roadmap to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in eHealth and health information technologies (IT), it was announced on