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Victoria Kalogirou and Georges Lobo, Programme managers, Interoperability Unit, Directorate-General for Informatics, European Commission

The organisational and governance aspects of interoperability are a crucial element in the development and delivery of European digital public services. Ongoing work is focused on clarifying and providing guidance on the implementation of these concepts.

Cristina Cosma, Programme Manager, Interoperability Unit, DG Informatics, European Commission

Putting citizens first and involving them through co-creation in designing digital public services is a key opportunity for improving public service availability, quality and efficiency in cities and regions. Join us at the European Week of Regions and Cities on 8 October 2019 to discuss the ways to better shape citizen-centric services.

Isabel Maria da Rosa and Marc-Christopher Schmidt, DG GROW, European Commission

The Once-Only Principle requires administrations to exchange information directly between each other, after having received consent from the citizen.  The "Core Criterion and Core Evidence" data model (CCCEV) supports this exchange. It defines in a generic way the structure of a criterion, for example, having a driving license. It also specifies the different types of evidence that citizens and businesses can provide as proof. The advantage of CCCEV is that it can be universally applied for any kind of criterion and evidence.

Nataliya Rozbroj Jasinskaja, EU Open Data Expert, Publications Office of the European Union

The DCAT Application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a result of European efforts for standards-based harmonisation of dataset and data catalogue specifications. It aims at creating a European data ecosystem by increasing the discoverability and reuse of open government data and improving the interoperability of data portals. The achievement of this target would support the objectives of public administrations to fulfil their transparency goals, reduce barriers to cross-border business and allow consumers to develop innovative solutions based on data.

Peter Burian, Project Officer for ISA² Access to Base Registries, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Instead of asking citizens for information that they have already provided, the Access to Base Registries Action tries to help public administrations across Europe to implement solutions that focus on the reuse of this information through base registries.

Costas Simatos, IT architect

The ISA² Interoperability Test Bed is an online, web-based platform that provides a conformance testing solution to projects developing cross-border public services. Project owners can use it to define their conformance testing strategy as a series of test cases that users can execute in a self-service manner, with monitoring from administrators to track testing progress and provide support.

Peter Bruhn Andersen, Linked Data Architect, Danish Agency for Digitisation

Part of the dream of the Semantic Web, as well as the goal we are striving towards with semantic interoperability and linked data, is to enable machines to act on our behalf to find and aggregate information. Furthermore, software agents should be able to make decisions based on end user-defined tasks.

Raul Abril, CAMSS Project Manager, Interoperability Unit, DG Informatics, European Commission

Are you struggling with ICT standards? Are you trying to figure out how to assess their quality, openness and coherence, but also to see if they are protected by intellectual property rights and accepted by others? The Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (CAMSS), supported by the ISA​² Programme, can help you!

Miguel A. Amutio, Deputy Head of Unit of Coordination of ICT Units, Secretariat General for Digital Administration, Spain

Miguel A. Amutio studied at La Salle School of Deusto and graduated in Computer Science at Deusto University (Bilbao) in 1988. CISA, CISM, CRISC. Currently he is Deputy Head of Unit of Coordination of ICT Units at the General Secretariat for Digital Administration. He coordinates the development of the National Security Framework and of the National Interoperability Framework of Spain and their Technical Regulations, together with the supporting documents. He is member of the Committee of the ISA² Programme and previously of the committees of Programmes ISA, IDABC, and IDA II; also member of the eGovernment Action Plan Steering Group and of the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization (MSP-ICT). Writer and speaker at various media, conferences and courses.