ICT for Societal Challenges - European Commission - Europa

Moving public services to the Cloud
Public administration are often organised in silos: monolithic architecture models
make it difficult to re-use services for the development of new applications. What
if these services were connected and the access to information open? The European
Commission is currently testing the potential of a Cloud of public services for the
development and the delivery of more flexible
public services by combining building blocks
and allowing service sharing between public and
private providers. Ultimately the citizens should
benefit from more personalised public services,
provided also by third-party actors using public
information. In turn, public administrations
experience savings and increased flexibility in
services design and provision.
Four projects started early 2012.
The InGeoCLOUDS project (2012-2014) focuses on seamless access to geospatial
information, integrates and connects existing datasets and moves them to the Cloud.
In addition, the project plans to demonstrate the ability to build more intelligent
services by seamlessly using and combining integrated data through the Cloud.
The Open-DAI project (2012-2014) will test the efficiency and added value of
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud-based architecture on several public
administrations. It will assess the business benefits for both public and private
organizations of developing new collaborative services in areas such as transport
and mobility, localization and geographic information, and environment and pollution.
http://www.open-dai.eu/
Similarly, the eEnviPer project (2012-2014) will integrate relevant processes and data
collected by public authorities and agencies. It will allow them to model and deploy
services, as part of a Cloud of e-Government services that supports the granting of
environmental licensing procedures to citizens and businesses. At the same time it
supports public participation, consultation and transparency in policy making.
http://www.eenviper.eu/
In many cases, citizens and businesses find it difficult or impossible to find information
or access services provided by local public authorities on the internet. Information is
often segmented and not-user friendly.
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