Kroes presses ahead with open IT standards

Euractiv.com reports that dominant players in Europe's IT industry will face an EU drive for open standards, starting with services in the public sector, Neelie Kroes, the EU's commissioner for the Digital Agenda, told a conference yesterday (10 June).

Kroes is planning to overhaul the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to make ICT standard-setting more transparent and make sure public administrations use open source formats to prevent a build up of monopolies in the sector.

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Nouvelle Norme Pour L'Archivage Electronique

Attendue de longue date, la nouvelle version de la norme AFNOR relative à l’archivage électronique (NF Z42-013) a pris effet le 4 mars 2009. Le texte contient plusieurs innovations dont la plus importante concerne les supports d’archivage. La version précédente de la norme datée de décembre 2001 ne concernait que les supports non réinscriptibles de type disque WORM (write once, read many). Les supports réinscriptibles de type disques magnétiques sont désormais reconnus à condition que l’intégrité des archives soit assurée par des moyens cryptographiques (empreinte, horodatage, signature électronique).


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Public comment period for eHEALTH Standardization

CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, the three European Standards Organizations (ESOs) announce the launch of a public comment period for the final draft report of the joint project ‘eHEALTH-INTEROP’, which will address the requirements of the European Commission mandate on standardization in the field of e-health. This mandate (M/403) aims to provide a consistent set of standards to address the needs of this rapidly evolving field. The report includes the result of an inventory of existing standards from the many different organizations in the sector, including international formal bodies and industry standards consortia. An analysis of sector needs and recommendations for specific standards development has subsequently been carried out, and a first draft of a work program has been included that reflects the need for coherent, cost-effective, and secure provision of electronic healthcare services.

Currently, public consultation on the draft work programme and final reporting to the European Commission is possible. The draft report is available on the website: www.ehealth-interop.nen.nl
On 7 November, an Open Meeting will be organized in Copenhagen to discuss amendments. The draft agenda is available at www.ehealth-interop.nen.nl/publicaties/2899.

For more information, please contact Ms. Shirin Golyardi, NEN, shirin.golyardi@nen.nl.