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Europese initiatieven

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Last updated: 21 Nov, 2023 by Paul Kiekens
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Op Europees niveau zijn er een aantal initiatieven die in sommige gevallen bindend zijn (GDPR, INSPIRE), in andere gevallen een bron van inspiratie of nuttige tooling. Hieronder een selectie.

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and of human rights law, in particular Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

European Digital Identity Framework (EDIF)

The European Digital Identity will be available to EU citizens, residents, and businesses who want to identify themselves or provide confirmation of certain personal information. It can be used for both online and offline public and private services across the EU.

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)

The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. This European Spatial Data Infrastructure will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations, facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe and assist in policy-making across boundaries.

The Single Digital Gateway (SDG)

The single digital gateway facilitates online access to information, administrative procedures, and assistance services that EU citizens and businesses may need in another EU country. Access to the gateway is via a search function in the Your Europe portal, which has been providing EU and national information on the rights of citizens and businesses, as well as access to assistance services, since 2006.

(Proposal) for Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence

A proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) within the European Union. The aim is to provide a set of harmonised rules, amending other legislative acts from the Union, that seek to protect EU citizens from the dangers that uncontrolled and rapid developments of new AI technologies and applications may introduce.

Interoperability

Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (CAMSS)

The CAMSS Assessment EIF Scenario contains different sections according to the insights and recommendations of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). This CAMSS Scenario allows for the assessment of the compliance of interoperability specifications with the EIF. The objective of the obtained assessment is to determine the suitability of the assessed interoperability specification for the delivery of interoperable European public services.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/common-assessment-method-standards-and-specifications-camss/solution/camss-assessment-eif-scenario

The New European Interoperability Framework (EIF)

The EIF gives guidance, through a set of recommendations,  to public administrations on how to improve governance of their interoperability activities, establish cross-organisational relationships, streamline processes supporting end-to-end digital services, and ensure that existing and new legislation do not compromise interoperability efforts.

For the purpose of the EIF, interoperability is the ability of organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals, involving the sharing of information and knowledge between these organisations, through the business processes they support, by means of the exchange of data between their ICT systems.

The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©)

The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©) is an architecture content metamodel defining the most salient architectural building blocks (ABBs) needed to build interoperable e-Government systems. The EIRA© provides a common terminology that can be used by people working for public administrations in various architecture and system development tasks. The EIRA uses (and extends) the ArchiMate language as a modelling notation and uses service orientation as an architectural style. 

Interoperability Maturity Assessment of a Public Service (IMAPS)

IMAPS is an online survey that helps public service owners evaluate, consider and improve all key interoperability aspects of their digital public service (legal, semantic, organisational, or technical). Ultimately, they can view and monitor the service’s compliance with the New European Interoperability Framework (EIF).

Not only can IMAPS be used to assess the interoperability of any public service – from open data portals, and e-voting platforms, to public procurement services, and much more – it is applicable to services at all levels of government (international, national, regional and local).

The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC)

​The Semantic Interoperability Community develops solutions to help European public administrations perform seamless and meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges.

The provision of digital cross-border public services requires the exchange of data between public administrations of different EU countries.

Semantic interoperability is a fundamental enabler of such exchanges. It is crucial to agree on the use of common semantic standards, promote transparent and well-documented metadata policies and increase the visibility and reuse of existing semantic interoperability solutions.

Reuse

The Sharing and Reuse Framework for IT Solutions

The Sharing and Reuse Framework for IT Solutions addresses EU, national, regional and local public administrations that aim at reducing costs, increasing their efficiency and fostering interoperability by reusing, sharing or jointly developing IT solutions that meet common requirements. The framework should be taken into account by decision makers, legal professionals, IT architects, developers and communication experts when:

  1. Sharing a tool once it has been developed or sharing the provision of a service

  2. Reusing existing tools or using an existing services; and

  3. Collaborating in the development of a tool or service.

The framework puts forward 10 key recommendations that public administrations are encouraged to follow in order to promote the sharing and reuse of IT solutions in the public sector. It is important that central governments also support this process by creating a climate of innovation in their administrations, encouraging staff to take an active role in the process and promoting the use of information and communication technologies. To facilitate this effort, the SRF also includes 19 supporting measures which specifically target central organisations.

Reusability Quick Assessment Toolkit (RQAT)

The objective of the RQAT is to allow Solution Owners to assess the Potential Reusability of their software solutions supporting Public Services and it is based on explicitly differentiating between the reusability of Application Components and the consumption of Application Services.

Overig

DESI

The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) summarises indicators on Europe’s digital performance and tracks the progress of EU countries.

The European Commission has been monitoring Member States’ digital progress through the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) reports since 2014. Each year, DESI includes country profiles which support Member States in identifying areas requiring priority action as well as thematic chapters offering a European-level analysis across key digital areas, essential for underpinning policy decisions.

Belgium ranks 6th in the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2017. Belgium ranks highest in connectivity (3rd) and integration of digital technology by businesses (5th), while digital public services are its biggest relative weakness. The country's key challenge is to continuously improve its mobile connectivity.

Belgium ranks 12th among the 27 EU Member States in the 2021 edition of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI).

In terms of digital skills, Belgium scores particularly well in the share of enterprises providing ICT training to their employees (2nd in the EU, with 33% compared to 20% on average in the EU). Moreover, the Belgian authorities have stepped up their efforts to address the need for better digital skills among students and to reskill and upskill the labour force. Flanders launched a new overarching digital school education strategy this year.

In terms of connectivity, Belgium displays uneven performance. The country has achieved good coverage of fixed very high capacity networks (VHCNs), thanks in part to its cable network. Fibre coverage, though still low, is also accelerating. In this regard, the recent announcement by Unifiber – a joint venture between the incumbent Proximus and Eurofiber – that it intends to connect 500,000 households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Wallonia with fibre by 2028 is encouraging. Belgium also displays a good level of at least 100 Mbps broadband take-up, where it ranks 6th in the EU. On the other hand, Belgium still lags behind on 5G readiness and coverage. The 5G multi-band auction scheduled for early 2022 and the revision of regional norms on exposure to electromagnetic fields could unlock the situation.

The integration of digital technology by enterprises remains one of Belgium’s strong points. The country is leading in terms of the number of enterprises using internal electronic information sharing (53% against 36% on average in the EU) and scores very well on most indicators. Several initiatives at regional and federal level continue to support the digital transformation of the economy.

Belgium shows a mixed performance in e-government. The country is on a par with the EU average on many indicators, in particular on the use of online public services, but could offer more public services to people and improve its score on open data readiness. The formation of a new federal government in October 2020, with an ambitious agenda for digital public services, should boost e-government over the next few years.

Gaia-X

With Gaia-X, representatives from business, science and politics on an international level create a proposal for the next generation of data infrastructure: an open, transparent and secure digital ecosystem, where data and services can be made available, collated and shared in an environment of trust.

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