News: "IDA Releases European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European E-Government Services"

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Just announced, and directly applicable to our mission: IDA Releases European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European E-Government Services[1]. Actual document is at [2].

 

Highlights:

 

- The European Commission's Interchange of Data Between Administrations (IDA) released a Final Version 1.0 of its European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European E-Government Services, approved by the Telematics Between Administrations Committee (TAC) Steering Committee. Publication of the EIF document follows a ten-month period of review and feedback by Members States, industry representatives, and stakeholders within the institutions.

 

- The European Interoperability Framework document "provides recommendations and defines generic standards with regard to organizational, semantic, and technical aspects of interoperability, offering a comprehensive set of principles for European cooperation in eGovernment.

 

-  The European Interoperability Framework "supports the European Union's strategy of providing user-centred eGovernment services by facilitating, at a pan-European level, the interoperability of services and systems between public administrations, as well as between administrations and the public (citizens, businesses). It is an action of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan, under the eGovernment heading."

 

- The EIF document considers "interoperability" in three dimensions, and -categorizes the seventeen Recommendations according to this taxonomy: organizational interoperability, semantic interoperability, and technical interoperability.

 

[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-12-06-a.html

[2] http://xml.coverpages.org/IDA-EIF-Final10.pdf

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World