European Journal of ePractice

The exchange of good practice is a valuable tool to boost eGovernment services across Europe's public administrations. To achieve an open and competitive digital economy, public administrations have to be linked together and therefore need to be interoperable. Interoperability, the ability of ICT systems to communicate, interpret and interchange data in a meaningful way, is one of the main challenges for successful, efficient and citizen-centred eGovernment applications.

The MODINIS Study on Interoperability is a state of the art analysis of key success factors and barriers to interoperability, using good practice cases as a reference framework. Over the past few years, good practice cases have been identified, analysed and discussed. Achievements and results have been continuously disseminated and communicated to the public, thus creating a well-informed community of eGovernment experts interested in interoperability. Input received by the experts has been included in the study and subsequently recommendations have been drafted providing a manual for public administrations (at national, local and also European level) on how to successfully implement eGovernment solutions.

This article provides a general overview of the importance of good practice cases and briefly describes the results of the study, especially focusing on the main recommendations for public administrations.