Description (short summary):
In the Lisbon eGovernment Ministerial Declaration (September 2007), the EU Member States have stressed Cross-Border Interoperability amongst the most important policy actions which have to drive the future developments on eGovernment in Europe, as a key enabler of an Internal Market without electronic barriers, and to enhance the benefits of eGovernment.

Cross-Border Interoperability is essential to set-up Pan European eGovernment Services (PEGS) and has been identified as one of the key policy actions of the Slovenian and French Presidencies.

Connecting Public Services Communities is an initiative launched by EIPA (http://www.eipa.eu), in cooperation with the Politech Institute (http://www.politech-institute.eu), with the aim to establish a community of practice on Cross-Border Interoperability in order to stimulate the debate and promote the exchange of good practices among different EU Member States and eGovernment stakeholders to successfully meet the challenges raised by the eGovernment Ministerial Declaration on Cross Border Interoperability.

Connecting Public Services Communities was launched with a Roundtable within the Bled eConference (SI) in June 2008, which brought together high level practitioners from local and national administrations from EU Member States, representatives from the private sector, the European Commission and the academia.

In October 2008, a second Roundtable was celebrated in Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR) within the World e-Democracy Forum. This event served as a platform to present the Exclusive Edition of the European Review of Political Technologies specially dedicated to the cases and good practices presented by the participants of the Community.

Original URL:
http://www.eipa.eu/Publications/CPSC2008.pdf

Number of pages:
128