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India has several small cities lacking resources which has prevented them from offering digital services. To reduce the digital divide amongst the towns and cities and to ensure availability of digital services across the urban landscape of the country, NUDM attempts to offer a free, ready-made, and open-source software platform to cities and/or collectives (states). This platform is a choice-based model that benefits cities of varied maturity levels and preserves their existing investments.
Starting a family is a major milestone in life. It also requires public service support. In Iceland, parents have the legal right to take leave and receive benefits, which allows them the time to take care of and bond with their babies. Having a baby can be stressful, and time should not be wasted on paperwork or bureaucracy. The digital application for parental leave automises the process and makes the processes simpler, faster and more user friendly. 90% of parents in Iceland currently prefer…
The Open Data Portal guarantees that anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge, can move from doubts about Mexico City to answers based on data. Through an interactive data visualisation tool, it seeks to transfer the power to analyse the information generated by the government to the citizens. The portal is innovative because of its robust visualization tool. Also, it has been fully developed in open source; allowing users to find data, visualise it, cross reference it and build stories,…
HighEd is a platform that enables young people who want to study abroad to make their plans for applying on the basis of safe and reliable information.  Today, the number of young people from the Republic of Uzbekistan going to foreign countries to study is increasing. As young people go abroad, the number of consulting agencies that offer education orientation is increasing, but the services they offer can be inaccessible to many Uzbekistanis and some agencies operate illegitimately.…
The inability to interoperate between different information technology (IT) systems has urged the Cambodian government to develop Cambodia Data eXchange (CamDX). CamDX is a unified yet decentralized data exchange layer between IT systems which offers a secure way to provide and consume services, ensures confidentiality, integrity and interoperability between many different data exchange parties. Whether you are a service consumer or provider, you benefit from CamDX in one way or another.
The Information System for Monitoring the State Anti-Corruption Program (country's Integrity Program) was developed to effectively address the challenge of monitoring the Integrity Program. This innovative solution simplifies and streamlines the processes related to the Program's implementation, ultimately leading to more effective governance. Primarily, considering the OECD's Recommendations on Public Integrity, which highlight that traditional approaches relying on strict rules and law…
The Greek education system needs about 50,000 substitute teachers every year to staff schools. In order to begin teaching,  these teachers have to travel to their district education headquarters to sign their one year contract with the state. Through the Substitute Teachers Platform, the contract is signed digitally, avoiding unnecessary travelling and allowing for the necessary information systems of the public administration to be updated in an interoperable way. This innovation thus saves…
MediCapt app is an innovative digital application that enables clinicians to document forensic medical evidence in sexual violence cases, capture forensic photographs of injuries sustained, and store them securely. For survivors of sexual violence, timely and high-quality forensic examination, evidence collection, and documentation is a vital part of comprehensive care and access to justice. However, in many countries, including Kenya, the quality of medico-legal documentation is severely…
Emilia-Romagna’s Digital Agenda led a significant innovation process for public administration decision-making. The process resulted in a co-design phase with local administrations to structure and publish online the first geo-referenced regional Observatory on ultra-broadband connectivity in Italy. Multi-stakeholder participation made it possible to identify and highlight the various strengths and weaknesses of the tool, enabling its optimisation.
Better Insights into Collective Climate Actions: The currently fragmented, insufficient and incompatible sources building the climate data framework remain a critical threat to a successful outcome of the 2023 Global Stocktake for the Paris Agreement. While we observe an increasing amount of participation, effective ways of connecting, visualizing and analysing actors patterns & impact, within the overall climate initiatives, remain limited.