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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Europe.
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- EU Agency identifies incentives and challenges for cyber security information sharing in Europe
- The EU 'cyber security' Agency ENISA, i.e. the European Network and Information Security Agency, launched a new report on barriers to and incentives for cyber security information sharing. The report shows e.g. that the economic incentives are much more important for practitioners than what academic literature indicate.
Added: 10 September 2010
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- European Commission event 'Transparency & Openness' to run on 8 December in Brussels
- This event, an initiative of DG INFSO, aims to discuss the redesigning of governance to foster transparency and openness. Additionally, the use of ICT will be discussed in an effort to create a sustained culture of transparency in public services and participation of the public in governance activities.
Added: 29 November 2011
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- European Journal of ePractice - Call for Papers
- The European Journal of ePractice has recently opened a new call for papers for three issues, with submission deadline on the 30th of April 2012. These issues include: Digital strategies for Government and Business; eGovernance and Social Media; and New Business Models in eGovernment.
Added: 30 March 2012
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- European Interoperability Framework (EIF) for European public services - in pdf format (1622kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). European Commission, 2010. Annex 2 to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions 'Towards interoperability for European public services' "... The purpose of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is: • to promote and support the delivery of European public services by fostering cross-border and cross-sectoral interoperability; • to guide public administrations in their work to provide European public services to businesses2 and citizens; • to complement and tie together the various National Interoperability Frameworks (NIFs) at European level. This non-technical document addresses all those involved in defining, designing and implementing European public services. The EIF should be taken into account when making decisions on European public services that support the implementation of EU policy initiatives. The EIF should also be considered when establishing public services that in the future may be reused as part of European public services..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- eGovernment - Better public services for everyone
- European Commission. "The eGovernment topic covers a wide range of public services that are delivered using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). eGovernment has two important roles, the first is as the interface between governments and the citizens and businesses they serve, the second is to provide common interfaces and shared data between collaborating government departments..."
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- Denmark, England and Scotland are at the forefront of telehealth ... Rethinking healthcare
- European Commission, 8 May 2012. "Denmark, England and Scotland have been pioneers in the use of electronic communication in and across the health and social care sectors. The three pioneers have been able to integrate telehealth into standard patient treatments, according to a new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (IPTS) Telehealth, offered in the three countries, means less hospital care and more patient empowerment. Through telehealth patients gain a better understanding of their illness while they have the chance to be treated in their own homes..."
Added: 21 May 2012;
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- HEIDI health wiki portal has been launched
- e-Practice.eu, 10 May 2012. Country EU Institutions; Domain eHealth; Topic Health portals, ICT and lifestyle management, ICT for disease prevention and health promotion, ICT for patient safety, Policy. "The 'Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface' (Heidi) website was launched on 3 May 2012 by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. HEIDI is an internet-based wiki that presents reliable and comparable data about health in the EU..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- How will the EU cookie law affect mobile marketing?
- by Graham Charlton. E-consultancy, Posted 8 May 2012. "The EU e-Privacy Directive and subsequent ICO guidance is complicated and confusing enough when you look at desktop sites alone, but then there's the question of how it translates to mobile. To recap: the 'cookie law' covers the use by businesses of information stored on users' 'terminal equipment' and this covers mobile sites and apps as well as desktop sites. In a new white paper, Mark Brill from the DMA has bravely attempted to untangle some of the issues around mobile and the cookie law..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- 89% of UK consumers think the EU cookie law is a positive step, but is it?
- by Graham Charlton. E-consultancy, Posted 9 May 2012. "89% of UK consumers think that the EU cookie law is a positive step, though 75% had not heard of the e-Privacy Directive before they were surveyed. Funnily enough, a similar proportion of marketers (82%) in a recent Econsultancy/Toluna survey think the opposite and view the cookie law as a real threat to the web..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- Redesigning health in Europe for 2020 - in pdf format (9515kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). eHealth Task Force Report, European Commission, Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union, 2012. "In 2020 the health and health care of our citizens could look quite different. We find ourselves today on the threshold of a new era with many opportunities for radical improvements in the way we manage and receive health care. In order to ensure the sustainability of our health care systems, there is a need to tackle considerable challenges. This report focuses on how to achieve a vision of affordable, less intrusive and more personalised care. Ultimately, increasing the quality of life as well as lowering mortality. Such a vision depends on the application of ICT and the use of data. The Task Force behind this report was convened to explore the potential of ICT in health innovation in the EU and make recommendations on what could be done now to ensure that Europe reaps the full benefits of eHealth in 2020..."
Added: 8 May 2012;
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- Better use of health data will transform the healthcare landscape, says expert report
- European Commission, Press Release, Reference: IP/12/453, Brussels, 7 May 2012. "A high-level group of experts today warned that Europeans will only be able to benefit from the affordable, less intrusive and more personalised healthcare which Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) can bring if agreement is reached on how to use health data. The group, headed by the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, delivered this and other recommendations for redesigning health in Europe to Vice President Neelie Kroes and Commissioner John Dalli at eHealth Week 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The eHealth Task Force was established a year ago (see IP/11/551) to advise the Commission on how to unlock the potential of eHealth for safer, better and more efficient healthcare in Europe..."
Added: 8 May 2012;
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- EU e-Privacy Directive survey
- By Econsultancy, March 2012. "In March 2012, Econsultancy ran a short poll of more than 700 marketers about the new EU e-Privacy Directive to see how companies are preparing for the new legislation ahead of the May 26 deadline..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- European Parliament posts draft open government declaration online, asks for feedback
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.Govfresh, March 28, 2012. "Have ideas for improvement to the open government declaration I’ve embedded below? Edits to the document below should make their way back to the original draft..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- European countries aligning their interoperability policies
- Submitted by Gijs Hillenius. European Commission - Joinup, March 13, 2012. "Seventeen out of 29 European countries now have national guidelines on interoperability, a recent case study shows. Nine of these seventeen national interoperability plans are well-aligned to the European Commission's Interopability Framework (EIF)..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- Policy lessons from a decade of eGovernment, eHealth & eInclusion
- European Journal of ePractice no. 15, 14 March 2012. "Over the past decade, many Information Society strategies have emerged in Europe, such as eEurope (1999), i2010 (2005) and Digital Agenda for Europe (2010). eGovernment, eHealth and eInclusion are the three policy sub-domains comprising the societal public services pillar which is the backbone of all such strategic frameworks. Given the emphasis that the new overarching EU2020 Strategy places on tackling grand societal challenges and turning them into economic opportunities, the relevance of these three domains is greater today than in the past. This issue aims to find theoretical and interpretative frameworks that may help to comprehend the evidence already collected and to support new and innovative policy approaches. These new approaches will lead to the transformation of a public service delivery system, to inclusive growth and to the dissemination of sustainable eHealth practices, thus improving the efforts towards 2020. The articles published in this issue bring forward a number of concise lessons learned form eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practices during the past decades. Much discussion focuses around the ever more commonly cultivated perception that various terms like 'accessibility', 'participation' and 'inclusion' should not be seen anymore as something different than their electronic dimension (as indicated by the 'e' prefix)..."
Added: 29 March 2012;
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- Cloud Services in the European Public Sector - Moving Beyond Fragmented Adoption
- By Saverio Romeo, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. The Information Daily formerly, the egov Monitor, Published Wednesday, March 28, 2012. "Cloud Services in Europe – Between Enthusiasm and Anxiety. More than a year ago, Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, claimed that she wanted to create a cloud-friendly and coud-active Europe. The use of cloud computing should bring benefits to large and small companies and individuals. Since then, the European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud services involving cloud solution providers, cloud users and consumers. The consultation highlighted some key challenges such as security, interoperability, lock-in, certification and standardisation. It also brought attention to the topic, particularly from national governments and local authorities across Europe. Such organisations see cloud services as a way to optimise their resources and offer better services for citizens..."
Added: 29 March 2012;
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- Surviving in the Digital eID World
- European Journal of ePractice no. 14. January/February 2012. "While identity information is definitely the property of the individual, the information is increasingly shared across social networks, commercial services and Government, with or without the individual's consent. How can we, as individuals, survive in the digital identity world while still being able to utilise our identity information as an asset to our own advantage in a controlled way? How can society - through legal measures, culture and technology - contribute to an environment where privacy and ownership to personal information are respected? Although the term ‘claim’ is not necessarily used in the papers in this ePractice Journal issue, a claims-based approach is actually the foundation for many of them. Any piece of identity information is released to relying parties as a claim, supported by evidence of certain strength, i.e. assurance level. The relying party must assess the assurance level and determine whether or not this is sufficient to accept the claim. In this interaction, a fundamental property should be that only the necessary information is released; enough to serve the purpose of the individual but not more. These principles should be at the core of the future Single European Digital Identity Community..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- Europe's public sector should embrace digital mindset
- by Hans Martens. Public Service Europe, 1 March 2012. "Exploiting the potential of e-government and creating a digital single market is one way of achieving badly needed reform in the public sector, writes the chief executive of the European Policy Centre Europe's public sector is in trouble as a result of the crisis and the need for austerity. But it will be in even more trouble in the coming years, when the baby boomers start to receive their pensions, because the next generation of taxpayers is relatively small. Public sector reform is badly needed, be it at European, national or regional level..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
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