The European Commission is asking for new ideas on how to use ICT to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of public sector and public services. The EC has made available an online public consultation, open until 15 April 2013.
The survey is introduced by a draft document on directions for ICT-driven public sector innovation. The paper identifies inter-linked drivers, trends and enablers, to which it welcomes comments by all the interested stakeholders: national administrations, businesses, researchers, innovators, academia and interested users.
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The Swiss Canton of Bern has decided to switch to Open Justitia, a management system for legal documents, developed as open source by the country's Federal Court. The canton procured support for the installing and maintaining the software from a Swiss IT service provider. One competitor disputes the contract. The firm, whose offer of its own proprietary alternative was turned down, is rallying for political support.
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On 16 February 2013, the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski stated that in less than a year a project has created the basis of several eGovernment services.
The government of the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia is considering to switch to open source office productivity tools. The region's Agency for Technological Innovation and the Galician Association for Free Software Enterprises, Agasol, have started to assess the economic impact of such a migration, including the technical and organisational requirements, the two announced last week.
Agasol expects that the study will be ready this year, it writes on its website. "It will determine the size and terms of the migration plan."
In August 2012, during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, the Swedish Library Association and Kenya Library Association signed a five year cooperation agreement.
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On 19 February 2013 the director of Grums’ municipality, Ms Margaretha Rudner, launched the municipality’s electronic services on the common electronic services platform of Värmland county (in west-central Sweden).
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The overall goal of this release is to improve compliance with the BusDox specifications.
IFLA parliamentary Section colleagues will be pleased to hear that Moira Fraser has been successful in her bid to carry out our evaluation project. See: http://www.ifla.org/news/evaluating-the-benefits-of-attending-ifla-conferences .
On the 4th and 5th March 2013, IFLA, in association with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) hosted a high-level meeting in Mexico City to help prepare the IFLA Trend Report.
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.
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On 22 February 2013, the EU eHealth project epSOS received the 2013 HealthTech Innovation Award for pioneering the adoption of auto ID technologies in healthcare.
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As announced on 4 March 2013, the municipality of Rotterdam offers lawyers and notaries the possibility to authenticate official documents and information for lawsuits or legacy investigations online, upon request, thanks to the eRecognition initiative.
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On 19 February 2013, the prototype of GovData - the national data portal - went online, providing citizens and businesses with easier access to and reuse of administrative data.
The Latvian Open Technology Association is calling on the Ministry of Economy to make open standards and open technologies one of the core themes of the ministry's business education efforts. The group published a statement on Wednesday, pleading for a continuation of funding of ICT training for Latvian companies. The ministry earlier this week announced a four-fold reduction in the budget for such trainings.
Following the Director-General of UNESCO’s decision to assist the Government of Mali in restoring and rebuilding its cultural heritage, UNESCO has established a working group of experts from all its partners, including IFLA, with the purpose of preparing an action plan for the restoration and reconstruction of the country’s cultural heritage and building the necessary capacity.
Using technical specifications to discriminate ICT solutions continues to be a widespread practice within the EU, says Openforum Europe, advocating the use of open standards in ICT. Publishing the results of its audit of European procurement, OFE yesterday urged for action. "These persisting discriminatory practices are not properly addressed."
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