Smart Cities Partners Create European Service List
The Smart Cities partners create an European service list. This is a repository of all services municipal, regional and national government bodies deliver in the different nation states represented in the Smart Cities project.
The EU service list is based on the work of the UK esd-toolkit. The EU service list will contain Dutch, UK, Belgian, German, Swedish and Norwegian governmental product titles. The lists will be translated and mapped.
The esd-toolkit contains a service list of about 700 local government services, publicly available and subject to changes by the esd community. Each service has a unique number and maps to several taxonomies including: a generic departmental tree structure, public website navigation structure and a list of audience types relevant to each service.
The UK service list is used by esd-toolkit, but central government and by individual local authorities for sharing information according to well defined semantics. See also www.esd.org.uk/standards
In none of the other partner countries (except UK) national service lists are in use. In some of the partner countries initiatives have been started up to start with a national service list, but these are early efforts. The Smart Cities partners collected information on services delivered in their countries using own resources and networks.
The EU service list will be used to benchmark services, and to relate services in order to use background information from the esd toolkit (profiling information, service bundles for target groups,…). First results are expected Spring 2010.
Smart Cities is an Interreg IVB North Sea Region Project, financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
See also http://www.epractice.eu/community/smartcities
Topics: Economy, EU, Europe, Governance, government agencies, governmental project tiles, Local Authorities, smart cities, taxonomies, technology, UK esd toolkit
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