IDA Housestyle

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European Cross-border Cooperation in eGovernment
the Role of the IDA Programme
Gzim OcakogluEuropean Commission DG Enterprise
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Outline

• The mission of IDA
• IDA within eEurope 2005 initiative
• The activities of IDA
• Projects of Common Interest
• Horizontal Action and Measures
• The future of IDA

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The Mission of IDA Interchange of Data between
Administrations

• To facilitate efficient, effective and secure
  exchange of information in order to support
• Implementation of Community policies
• Achievement of the Internal Market
• Inter-institutional communication and
  decision-making process
• Through the establishment of operational,
  interoperable, trans-European telematic networks
  between Member State administration and the
  Community institutions

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eEurope 2005 Action Plan

• eEurope 2005 - An information Society for all
  adapted at the Sevilla European Council 21-22
  June 2002
• Modern online public services
• e-government
• e-learning services
• e-health services
• A dynamic e-business environment
• And, as an enabler for these
• Widespread availability of broadband access at
  competitive prices
• A secure information infrastructure

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The Activities of IDA

• Projects of Common Interest
• Horizontal Actions and Measures

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ISSS/LORIS 2003 Hradec Kralove, March 24, 2003
IDA provides a co-ordination forum for the
promotion of information technology in public
administrations
Provides funds to the setting up of projects of
common interest
Sets up and operates back-office (generic)
infrastructure defines guidelines in support of
interoperability
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Projects of Common Interest
COWEBS
PLOTEUS
AMIS- quota
PROCIV-NET
SOLVIT
EUPHIN
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EU Public Health Information Network

• Communicable diseases Health Surveillance System
  for Communicable Diseases (HSSCD)
• Health monitoring Health Information Exchange
  and Monitoring System (Hiems)
• Injury surveillanceInjury Surveillance System
  (ISS)
• (EC - DG Health and Consumer Protection)

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IDA in support of the internal market SOLVIT
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IDA in support of the single pharmaceutical market

• EUDRANET
• An IT network between EMEA and competent national
  authorities
• Handling marketing authorizations
• Processing data in the event of alerts (faulty
  manufacture, serious adverse reactions, etc.)

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IDA in support of the environment

• eEIONET
• A collaborative network of the EEA and its
  competent national authorities
• Platform for reporting and public access to
  reliable and comprehensive information
• Aims at the drastic reduction of the reporting
  burdens via the eEIONET reporting system

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IDA in support of learning opportunities PLOTEUS

• PLOTEUS
• An EU database/portal on learning opportunities,
  linked to a database on jobs
• multi-lingual
• Links to higher education institutions web sites
  and databases
• Description of education systems in MS
• To be combined with EURES (in future)

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Horizontal Actions and Measures

• The HAMs fall into following categories

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Example of Generic Service IDA communication
platform
TESTA Network
Other services
EU Member States/ Candidate Country
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CIRCA collaborative tool
http//forum.europa.eu.int/
Click on the link of your CIRCA logical site
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EU PORTALhttp//europa.eu.int/public-services
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The future of IDA

• IDA II expiring on December 2004
• Discussions just launched on the preparation of
  a new Programme (2005-2009?)
• Challenges ahead
• most competitive knowledge based economy
• consolidation of enlargement
• EU space of security, justice and freedom

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THANK YOU ! For more information about IDA

• IDA web site http//www.europa.eu.int/ispo/ida
• EU Portal http//europa.eu.int/public-services/
  
• CIRCA http//circa.cec.eu-admin.net/
• E-mail entr-ida_at_cec.eu.int