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On 1 February 2012, the European Patients' Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) project was launched with the objective to provide information to patients on pharmaceutical R&D and to increase their capacity to be effective advocates of patient-centred clinical research strategies, approval processes, access to
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On 9 February 2012, the Irish Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), Brian Hayes TD launched a pilot project on eInvoicing across a number of Government Departments and other public sector bodies.
Between 20 and 23 February a second technical mission from the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, consisting of the the Project Coordinator Mr. Avinash Bikha, and Mr. Vanderlei Batista Dos Santos, Electronic Archiving Expert from the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, visited the National Assembly of Suriname, for facilitating the ICT strategic planning process at the Assembly.
Central government is lagging up to five years behind local government in implementation of mobile services to citizens, one service provider with extensive UK public sector experience has told E-Government Bulletin.
The scale of rolling out mobile projects at central government level means projects take longer to deploy, and so progress has been quicker at [...]
A project assigning council street service workers geographical zones and giving them mobile devices to run multiple services in teams is being launched this summer by Colchester Borough Council.
The council has divided its area into seven zones of various sizes depending on geography and population. Workers using a variety of smartphones and tablet computers will [...]
A lightweight mobile enforcement system developed by the City of Rotterdam is the most comprehensive and flexible of its kind anywhere in the world, the city council has told E-Government Bulletin.
The “iThor” system is built around parking enforcement and monitoring of other street and environmental issues, but has the potential to be expanded to cover [...]
Almost all UK local authorities now make official use of social media, with many councils now running multiple accounts to cover different services and projects, a report due out next month will find.
The annual “Better Connected” snapshot report of UK council websites, published by the Society of IT Management (Socitm), is set to include a [...]
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Kick-off Vlaams (open) standaardeninitiatief lokale overheden
On Wednesday, February 15th, the OSLO project “Open Standards Lo
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Kick-off Vlaams (open) standaardeninitiatief lokale overheden
On Wednesday, February 15th, the OSLO project “Open Standards Lo
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Kick-off Vlaams (open) standaardeninitiatief lokale overheden
On Wednesday, February 15th, the OSLO project “Open Standards Lo
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The 'Telecoma' telemedicine project is being launched in the Campania region (southern Italy) with the aim to provide homecare assistance for vegetative state and brain-damaged patients.
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Public invited to provide input on the important steps towards improving interoperability across Europe
Today, a Working Group initiated by t
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Public invited to provide input on the important steps towards improving interoperability across Europe
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Public invited to provide input on the important steps towards improving interoperability across Europe
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On 27 January 2012, Dr James Reilly TD (*), Ireland's Minister for Health launched the country's first national electronic general practitioner (GP) referral system. It has capacity to have over 42 000 referrals into breast, lung and prostate cancer clinics carried out electronically annually.
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A first draft of a metadata standard to help describe and classify free and open-source software in a machine-readable way is to be published at the end of February 2012. The specification of the standard in question is being developed by a group of government specialists and software developers involved in electronic government services around the EU.
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Public administrations procuring IT services and software must add to the budget plan the exit costs needed to move to alternative IT solutions after the end of the contract period. That is one of the recommendations by Open Forum Europe, a non-profit organisation advocating the use of open standards in ICT, in a report on procurement published on 13 February 2012.
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The UK Cabinet Office is seeking advice on the definition of open standards in the context of Government Information Technologies, by posting the relative consultation documents online on 8 February 2012. The consultation follows the withdrawal, in November 2011, of an IT Procurement policy in effect since in January 2011.
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COCIR, the non-profit association representing the European Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry, published on 13 January 2012 the results of a survey conducted among European acute care hospitals on the availab
The UK cabinet office is seeking advice on the definition of open standards in the context of government IT. It posted its consultation documents online last week Wednesday. The consultation follows the withdrawing in November of a IT procurement policy in effect since in January 2011.
The consultation should also help to make clear what effects compulsory standards may have on government departments, on delivery partners and on supply chains. A third aim is to gain knowledge on international alignment and cross-border interoperability.
