SHARING & REUSE CONFERENCE 2019

The second edition of the Sharing & Reuse Conference will take place on 11 June 2019 in Bucharest, Romania. The event is organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission, under the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU. If you are interested in open source policies and strategies, and their implementation in EU countries, come and join us!

The event will gather representatives of the public and private sector such as policy and decision makers, legal professionals, procurers, IT managers, developers and open source enthusiasts. They will talk about their experience, challenges, and best practices in sharing and reusing software and IT services within public administrations.

The participants will have the opportunity to explore the ways of building and supporting open source communities and increasing the take-up of best solutions. The event will also address trends such as coding with citizens, co-creation or new approaches to open source security. 

During the event, the Commission will announce the winners of the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019. The contest will highlight the most innovative and impactful IT solutions for public administrations (both open source software and IT shared services). 

Opening

Mariya GABRIEL, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society (video)

Cristian CUCU, Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU

Mário CAMPOLARGO, Deputy Director-General of DG Informatics, European Commission

Conference Facilitator: Louis ZEZERAN

Keynote

Stela MOCAN, Lead, Technology & Innovation Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, World Bank Group
Open Access, Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Code: World Bank Perspective

Session I: Open Source Driving Modern and Transparent Government

High-level governmental representatives from several EU Member States will be talking about national open source policies and strategies. The European Commission will present ongoing work on the renewal of its Open Source Software Strategy.

Fernando de PABLO MARTÍN, General Secretary of Digital Administration, Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Spain
Common services to bring public administrations together

Alessandro RANELLUCCI, Digital Transformation Team, Italy
Software reuse through open source: the new Italian regulation and strategy

Petteri KIVIMÄKI, Chief Technology Officer, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), Finland
X-Road joint development – cross-border open source development between member states

Chrysanthi GIORTSOU, Deputy Head of Unit - Reusable Solutions, DG DIGIT, European Commission
Renewal of EC Open Source Software Strategy

Panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Sachiko MUTO, Chief Executive Officer of OpenForum Europe

Session II: Sharing & Reuse in Practice

Stefano ZACCHIROLI, Co-founder and CTO of Software Heritage
Software Heritage: the largest archive of reusable Free and Open Source Software

Francesco Raphaël FRIERI, Director General for Resources, Human Resources, Organization, Europe, Local Government, Innovation, ICT - CDO  Emilia-Romagna Region
Digital Transformation, Reuse and Models in Regional Governments: the Case of Emilia - Romagna 

Boris van HOYTEMA, Open Source Development Manager, Interreg SCORE project , City of Amsterdam
 SCORE collaborating cities: open communities are the key to reuse and interoperability 

Bogdan IVANEL, Managing Director at Code for Romania
Open-source as a sustainability stepping stone for both public and civic sector

Jean-Paul DE BAETS, Programme Manager, DG Informatics, European Commission
JLA - Licensing Assistant on Joinup Collaborative Platform

Maha SHAIKH, Researcher and Senior Lecturer of Digital Innovation at King's College London
How the Public/Private Sector Organizations Help Sustain Open Source Communities              


Panel discussion and Q&A moderated by James LOVEGROVE, Public Policy Director at Red Hat EMEA

Session III: Coding with Citizens

Francisco GARCÍA MORÁN, Special Adviser, European Commission
Coding with Citizens: A Personal Experience with Code for America Brigades

Bastien GUERRY, Free Software Officer at Etalab, DINSIC
Building free software bridges between public agencies and citizens

Despina MITROPOULOU, Director of GFOSS - Open Technologies Alliance
Open-source coding with Citizens: The collaborative wikification of public sector procedures and automated codification of legislation

Sebastian RAIBLE, Policy Advisor, MEP Julia Reda, European Parliament
Realising Responsibility: the EU Free Software Security Audit project                                                                   


Panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Gijs HILLENIUS, Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Session IV: Sharing & Reuse Awards

Short presentations of 16 shortlisted solutions in 4 contest categories:

• Most Innovative Open Source Software

• Open Source Software with the biggest impact on citizens and businesses

• Most Innovative Shared IT Service

• Shared IT Service with the biggest impact on citizens and businesses

Closing

Emanuele BALDACCI, Director of Digital Services, Directorate-General for Informatics, European Commission

Cristian CUCU, Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU

Sharing & Reuse Awards Ceremony

Verso uno Smart Working maturo: appunti di un viaggio in VeLA

Evento conclusivo del Progetto VeLA – Veloce, Leggero, Agile: lo Smart Working per la PA

16 Maggio, 2019  da 15:00 a 18:00, Forum PA, Roma Convention Center “La Nuvola”

Nove Enti partner, una buona pratica e un kit di riuso a disposizione delle PA che vorranno implementare un modello di smart working. Il progetto VeLA – Veloce, Leggero, Agile: lo Smart Working per la PA è finanziato dal PON GOV 2014-2020 nell’ambito del primo bando di Open Community PA.

Il progetto è un laboratorio in evoluzione, un’occasione di approfondimento del tema dello smart working, delle criticità e delle opportunità con cui le Amministrazioni pubbliche nell’attuale fase di sperimentazione si stanno confrontando. Per oltre un anno gli Enti partner hanno lavorato sui temi organizzativi, amministrativi e procedurali, ma si sono anche aperte al confronto sull’accompagnamento agli smart worker e all’empowerment della dirigenza, alla comunicazione ai cittadini e alla misurazione e valutazione della performance e della produttiva del lavoratore, agli spazi come leva del cambiamento e al ruolo abilitante delle tecnologie.

Questo appuntamento rappresenta il convegno finale di questa esperienza di lavoro insieme, che non si conclude con il progetto, ma che vede le amministrazioni impegnate in una roadmap di implementazione e soprattutto in un’azione di sensibilizzazione e di trasferimento ad altre Amministrazioni.

La presentazione del kit di riuso e dei risultati del progetto sarà alternata a pitch di esperti su alcuni temi aperti su cui VeLA vuole puntare l’attenzione e rilanciare il dibattito futuro in materia di smart working.

Il convegno sarà l’occasione per analizzare oltre ai risultati del progetto, alcuni focus tematici connessi allo smart working, dal service design all’attrattività dei talenti fino al futuro possibili delle modalità di lavoro agile.

Digital Transformation of Public Administration in Europe

A ROLE FOR PA THROUGH BIG DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EU VISION AND PRACTICES FROM A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

SECOND HIGH LEVEL SEMINAR

14 MAY 2019 10.00 - 16.00 

VENUE: Emilia-Romagna Region Rue Montoyer 21, Brussels

The rapid integration of digital technologies poses a number of challenges for national, regional and local governments. An important aspect of this transformation concerns citizens’ and businesses’ expectations about their interaction with governments. This requires the digital transformation of governments themselves to rise to this challenge. Public administrations need to change the way they work and organise themselves, ensuring they have the skills needed to use new digital tools, work collaboratively and engage with citizens and businesses.

The EU vision is to make Public Administration open, efficient, inclusive, borderless and user-friendly by providing a new digital environment for public services. With the eGovernment Action Plan, the European Commission considers that digital transformation of Public Administration is key for a successful Digital Single Market. The Single Market will be enhanced by common initiatives on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are on top of the EU agenda.

A EU common effort includes a consistent legal basis, policies and financing programmes mainly addressed to the public sector, research and infrastructures, big data, digital interoperability and innovative solutions for public administrations, with increased attention to Artificial Intelligence. Following last year Member States Declaration, a Coordinated Plan has also been adopted last December to pave the way for the future of a trustworthy AI.

In this context, the government of Emilia-Romagna has developed a robust strategy, together with national and regional research centers, to create a big data infrastructure, also with the aim to use data sets coming from PA, particularly from the health care and transport sectors. In the field of AI for Public Administration, it has identified a number of priorities.

Being closer to citizens, European regions can thus provide a significant contribution to make Public Administration systems more efficient, capable of generating public value and delivering better public services to local communities.

The aim of this second Seminar is to deepen the debate on the Digital transformation, by bringing together representatives from the European Commission, European regions and the private sector. It will also explore the possibility to establish an Open Government platform to address societal challenges, design and share common solutions.

Welcome: Lorenza Badiello, Head of Office, Delegation to the EU, Emilia-Romagna Region

Patrizio Bianchi, Minister for Europe, Research, University and Employment, Emilia-Romagna Region

Setting the context: Luukas Ilves, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, The Lisbon Council

Kick off Introduction: Francesco Raphael Frieri, CDO, Director-General for Resources, Europe, Innovation and Institutions, Emilia-Romagna Region

THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Going digital: the EU strategy for digital transformation

With the aim to improve PA efficiency, this session will explore the vision of the European Union as well as recent strategic developments and future impact of digital transformation

Daniele Dotto, HoU, Governance and Public Administration/Coordinator Inter services group for PA, Secretary general, European Commission

Norbert Sagstetter, Deputy HoU, e-Governement, DG CNECT, EU Commission - Video conference Irene Sardellitti, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, DG CNECT, EU Commission

Andrea Mairate, HoU Impact of EU policies on national economies, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Emanuele Baldacci, Director, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Debate

Moderator: Richard Tuffs, Senior advisor - ERRIN Networking lunch

REGIONAL EXPERIENCES

TOWARDS AN OPEN PLATFORM ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS

This session will discuss main challenges and practices of digital trasformation of PA at regional level. The panel will bring regional experts together to address possible solutions also through an open platform

Daniel Marco, Director of SmartCatalunia, Catalunia

Raes Lieven, Program Manager R&D Smart Cities of Informatie Vlaanderen, Flanders

Lisa Lombardi, Expert, Agence du Numérique (AdN) of Digital Wallonia, Wallonia

Katerina Gonzales, Consultant eGovernment, ICT in the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Energy and Housing, Hessen

Gianluca Mazzini, Director General of Lepida, Emilia-Romagna

Bernard Giry, Digital innovation adviser of the President, Ile-de-France Region (tbc) Representative of Nouvelle Aquitaine (tbc)

Debate

Moderator: Lorenza Badiello, Head of Office, Delegation to the EU - Emilia-Romagna Region

THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR

DEVELOPING PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION AND SOLUTIONS

This session will bring key stakeholders from businesses, to share proposals to support the transition phase of Public Administration

Alessandro Cenderello, Managing Partner for EU Institutions, Ernst&Young

Giovanna Camorali, Business Development Executive, IBM Italy, Research Initiative Maurizio Mencarini, VP

Global Strategic Partnership, Expert System Spa, Italy

Catherine Berger, Principal Solution Specialist for Data & AI, EU Public sector, Microsoft

DEBATE

Moderator: Richard Tuffs, Senior Advisor at ERRIN Network

Final remarks:

Emanuele Baldacci, Director, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Francesco Raphael Frieri, CDO, Director, General for Resources, Europe, Innovation and Institutions, Emilia-Romagna Region