Open Call for supporting the creation of public value through local and regional innovations under ELISE action

The ELISE action has launched an open call for supporting the creation of public value through local and regional innovations.

 

The call is organised in two Lots, as follows:     

• Lot 1: concentrates on the development of practical guidance, convincing value propositions, and a list of priorities for further policy action, which help to improve the quality and delivery of public services by the meaningful and innovative use of location data and technology at local level. These should be developed based on an in-depth mapping and critical analysis of recent initiatives, emerging solutions and their possible impacts. The Contractor should organically structure the information available at local and regional level, investigate new practices - together with their replicability and scalability potentials - and suggest possible future pathways for the evolution of public services in the EU.
• Lot 2: should help to understand, through an extensive use of sandboxing, the policy implications of different governance approaches, business models and opportunities for the development and various uses of sub-national (regional and local) data ecosystems and digital twins - together with their implications on public sector innovation. By ‘data ecosystem’ we mean a complex socio-technical system of people, organisations, technology, policies, and data in a specific area or domain that interact with one another and their surrounding environment for a specific purpose. By ‘sandboxing’ we mean the establishment and utilisation of testing technical environments in an agile and inclusive manner that would help gain valuable insights into the way in which data-driven innovation can benefit a broad spectrum of different actors.

The deadline for receipt of tenders is 10 September 2020 (16:00 CEST). For more information follow this link. 



Assessing the impacts of digital government transformation in the EU - Conceptual framework and empirical case studies

The report has been published  presenting the results of the conceptual and empirical work conducted as part of the JRC research on “Exploring Digital Government Transformation: understanding public sector innovation in a data-driven society” conducted within the framework of ELISE action. The report presents an original conceptual framework for assessing the impacts of Digital Government transformation in the EU and discusses the results of case studies carried out using an experimental or quasi-experimental approach to test and validate it, carried out in different policy areas in various EU countries.

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Will Artificial Intelligence lead to improvements in public services?

ELISE action activity supports the European Commission's AI Watch Knowledge for policy service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Europe, launched in December 2018 as part of the Coordinated Plan on the Development and Use of AI Made in Europe.



ELISE has focused its contribution on the impact that Artificial Intelligence has on the public sector.



Recently the report has been published presenting the results of the first exploratory mapping of the use of AI in public services in the EU, which contributes landscaping the current state of the art in the field, and provide an overview of Member States efforts to adopt AI-enabled innovations in their government operations and public sector.

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