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The Norwegian government has developed Designsystemet, a shared foundation for building accessible and consistent digital services. It provides reusable UI components, design guidelines and patterns that help organisations develop services faster while meeting accessibility requirements. Developed collaboratively across government, Designsystemet is technology-agnostic and recognised as a Digital Public Good, meaning organisations worldwide can use, adapt and contribute to improving it.
Greece lacked comparable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data across firms. The National ESG Data Map (esg.ekt.gr) is a public digital platform that collects data from trusted sources, standardises them and publishes comparable ESG indicators and dashboards for businesses and policy makers. It supports targeted policy and green finance decisions and helps companies prepare for EU sustainability reporting.
Indonesia ranks as world's second most disaster-prone country, with climate-related losses reaching Rp50 trillion (±USD 3 billion) annually. Over 75,000 villages bear the greatest burden of climate and disaster risks, yet often lack the data needed to allocate climate and disaster budgets effectively. IRID Dashboard, developed by the Ministry of Finance, integrates climate risk indices, village budgets, and fiscal transfers into one free, map-based platform. Users can filter and analyze data…
Conecta is a platform that allows public administrators to use technology to anticipate problems faced by cities during extreme weather events, such as flooding, landslides, accidents, and fallen trees. The platform integrates and unifies real-time alerts from different technological sources, enabling faster decision-making and more effective emergency response. Additionally, all the data generated and compiled will allow society to understand new reality and measure how efficiently public…
vCity is a human-centric platform for urban digital twins, with the goal of improving life quality within the city by assisting urban planners make evidence-driven urban decisions. vCity's innovative approach combines 1) simulation by designing virtual replicas of the cities, 2) what-if scenario tools in urban planning and 3) getting the "pulse" of the city from digital platforms for citizen participation.
The Technological Support Solution for Scrutiny(TSS),developed by ONPE, modernizes Public Management and Digital Government. During elections,poll workers manually fill out multiple official records. The TSS digitalizes votes and produces printed records, simplifying their task. The results are encrypted and securely transmitted to the central office, speeding up their delivery. Additionally, digital certificates were introduced for electronic signatures, giving legal value to the generated PDFs
Initiative that promoted the publication of open data from public entities and encouraged its effective use by citizens. The initiative promotes open public data through the National Open Data Platform, meeting global standards and gaining recognition from organizations like OAS and ILDA. Collaboration enhances entities' international standing, fostering open data adoption. Emphasizing data openness, it spotlights leading institutions nationally and regionally, encouraging transparency and…
The "Ficha Única del Proveedor" created to address the lack of transparency in public procurement, consolidates key data about state suppliers, including composition, representatives, and legal background. This innovative tool empowers citizens and service users by providing detailed information, contributing to transparency and efficiency in public procurement. Verification of sanctions and additional records further enhances its utility.
The data portal is a central data point for the public. It provides citizens with high-quality open data of the region, bringing it closer to the general public in user-friendly formats, in the form of map outputs. It is an innovative solution of the Hradec Králové Region for sharing and visualizing data from publicly available sources and data of the region. It ensures transparency, openness and accountability of public administration.
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.