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Just days after European Union member states signed the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government, a pan-European pledge for a new approach to digital transformation in Europe, the Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Roundtable on Human-Centric Digital Government: The Berlin Declaration in Practice. Before an eclectic audience of of highly ranked civil servants, local […]
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By Johanna Barton and Francesco Mureddu, respectively project manager and research associate and director at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. On the 8th of December 2020, the digital ministers from all 27 Member States of the European Union signed the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society. […]
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By Francesco Mureddu, director at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. Several European Member States have implemented a wide array of human centric public services focused on financially supporting citizens during the lockdown. In particular, Hungary, Greece, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark have implemented a set […]
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“Every time an App or website asks us to create a new digital identity or to easily log on via a big platform, we have no idea what happens to our data in reality. That is why the Commission will soon propose a secure European e-identity. One that we trust and that any citizen can […]
Read moreBy David Osimo, director of research at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. In these days of crisis and lockdown, digital government has suddenly become an essential service. By and large, many governments have risen to the challenge. Digital teams have worked day and night to provide […]
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From the 25th to the 27th of September 2019, the Co-VAL consortium will carry out the 5th Plenary Meeting and the 3rd Stakeholder Panel Meeting in Cagliari, Sardinia. The Plenary Meeting will take place from the 25th to the 26th of September 2019, hosted by the Lisbon Council. On the 27th of September, the Stakeholders […]
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“Co-creation” and “design thinking” are trendy themes – the topic of innumerable conferences and a growing number of academic papers. But how do we turn co-creation into a reality for Europe’s 508 million citizens? In Co-Creation of Public Services: Why and How, Co-VAL’s new Policy Brief, co-authors Francesco Mureddu and David Osimo propose a ten-step roadmap for delivering genuinely user-centric digital […]
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“Co-creation” and “design-thinking” have captured the imagination of many, but public administrations around Europe sometimes struggle to turn them from a trendy idea into a reality for their citizens. Against this backdrop, the Lisbon Council brought together leading experts, top civil servants think tankers, and policymakers to convene the High-Level Summit on ‘Co-Creation’ and ‘Design Thinking’. The […]
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At the Co-VAL High-Level Webinar on Government Transformation: How ‘Co-Creation’ Will Shape the Future of Value Creation in the Public Sector, Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez, programme manager for the ISA2programme at the European Commission’s DG informatics (DIGIT), shared early findings of The 10thAnniversary e-Government Factsheets Report. The report is now available and compiles 10 years […]
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On the 8th of October 2018 Co-VAL representative took part to the Cultural-Cooperation-11 Cluster and linked EU eGovernment initiatives meeting aimed at fostering the creation of a network and the exchange of knowledge among the Horizon 2020 projects funded under the call CULT-COOP-2017. In the meeting, organised by the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission, representatives […]
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