The Sharing & Reuse Awards contest was open for submissions between 29 November 2018 and 12 March 2019. The winners were selected by applying the following three processing stages:
- Eligibility test performed by the Sharing & Reuse Awards Team. 54 eligible solutions were identified.
- Evaluation by the Evaluation Committee in two sub-committees: for Shared IT Services and Open source software. The result of this step was the 31 shortlisted solutions.
- Final assessment by the Jury. The table below shows the results of this step.
The winners were announced at the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019 Ceremony hosted by Emanuele BALDACCI, the Chair of the contest Jury.
Categories
- Most innovative open source software
- Open source software with the biggest impact on citizens or businesses
- Most innovative shared IT services (commonly developed or shared)
- Shared IT services (commonly developed or shared) with the biggest impact on citizens or businesses
Most innovative open source software |
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1st place Solution name: OpenFisca Organisation: Direction interministérielle du numérique et du système d'information et de communication de l'État (DINSIC) Country: France Justification: OpenFisca is a very transparent portal providing innovative and inclusive functionalities. The solution establishes a social innovation benchmark for citizens in the fiscal field and is highly impactful, supporting services such as visualisation by citizens of their rights and benefits and the simulation of the budgetary consequences and impact of a reform. Further strengths include the design of the platform and the availability of the software for a large group of users. The solution is undergoing certification by the New Zealand government for official use and other countries have also started to use OpenFisca to model their social-fiscal system. |
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2nd place Solution name: Decidim Organisation: City of Barcelona Country: Spain Justification: Decidim offers social and process innovation. The solution is scalable and constantly growing. The solution is widely reused outside of the country where it was initially developed; it has been deployed in ten other countries. Decidim has a community-oriented governance model, and the availability of the software is high. There is ongoing work on the integration of the blockchain technology in the solution. |
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Solution name: OSLO Validator Organisation: Information Flanders Country: Belgium Justification: OSLO Validator demonstrates a very high level of technical innovation while offering a service that no other Open Source Software provides. The idea is novel and of clear interest in the context of open data. Despite the young age of the solution, there are cases of proven reuse, and future developments are highly promising. |
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Solution name: Web Accessibility Observatory Tracker (OAW Tracker) Organisation: General Secretariat for Digital Administration Country: Spain Justification: OAW Tracker is highly reused and adopted by a selection of public administrations. The accessibility of public administrations’ websites is very important. This solution is a very useful and promising tool. Other strengths are the modularity of the solution, good governance which guarantees sustainability, the evidence of a community with groups of users, and its multi-lingual aspect. |
Open source software with the |
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1st place Solution name: open-eID - the Cornerstone of e-Governance Organisation: Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet Country: Estonia Justification: Open-eID is very active and well supported by the various Estonian administrative departments. Numerous initiatives depend on this software, and it encourages the development of digitalisation among public administrations throughout Europe. Moreover, this solution is the most impactful in the category, especially when it comes to its indirect impact as a digitalisation benchmark in Europe. The solution has grown exponentially. |
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2nd place Solution name: Consul Organisation: Municipality of Madrid Country: Spain Justification: Consul demonstrates very impressive degree of political and social impact and user-centricity, with particular evidence of a vibrant community. The solution also put forward an ideal Open Source Software layout and has been installed multiple times in many countries, mostly cities, both small and large, including metropolies such as New York. |
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Solution name: @firma (eSignature Platform) Organisation: General Secretariat of Digital Administration Country: Spain Justification: @Firma has had a big impact, is widely used, and it has scaled up in the last years. @Firma started as a local initiative and is now being widely used within and outside of Spain. It also comes with valuable support which guarantees its sustainability. |
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Solution name: LUTECE Organisation: City of Paris Country: France Justification: LUTECE is very impactful within its specific development framework, which includes Paris, Marseille and Lyon authorities. Moreover, the large number of plug-ins and the large ecosystem are considered as additional strengths of this solution. |
Most innovative shared IT services |
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1st place Solution name: YUCCA SMART DATA PLATFORM Organisation: Piedmont Region Country: Italy Justification: YUCCA SMART DATA PLATFORM demonstrates a high degree of innovation, especially in terms of technical achievement. The strong points identified were the following: innovative solution using up-to-date technologies, reflected in a complex platform that combines big data and IoT. The platform is reused outside of its development hub. The solution makes big data available to public administrations and has promising potential to promote the use of big data in policy-making. |
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2nd place Solution name: Consent-based loan application Organisation: The Brønnøysund Register Centre Country: Norway Justification: Consent-based loan application illustrates a model of enhanced support by the public sector towards the private sector. It was developed as a result of demand from the private sector to build this type of service. In light of this, the solution indirectly benefits the society by shattering the usual boundaries created between the two sectors. In addition, the solution has a positive impact on promoting the reuse of data by the private sector, hence enabling process innovation. |
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Solution name: Once Only Principle (OOP) buidling block Organisation: Centre des technologies de l’information de l’État (CTIE) Country: Luxembourg Justification: Once Only Principle (OOP) building block is a widely used concrete implementation of the Once-Only-principle involving business processes innovation and with all the associated benefits for citizens in terms of administrative simplification and user friendliness. |
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Solution name: Suomi.fi-Finnish Service Catalogue Organisation: Population Register Centre Country: Finland Justification: Suomi.fi-Finnish Service Catalogue demonstrates innovation in terms of services provided. It is used by a variety of public organisations and also by private companies. Despite the technical innovation being slightly limited, the innovative aspect can be seen in the integration with other services for the automatic text annotations based on natural language analysis, which makes the catalogue concept more "dynamic". Additionally, the solution has an experimental augmented reality mobile application to support the catalogue, which is also innovative. |
Shared IT services (commonly developed or shared) |
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1st place Solution name: Software reuse in social security and health care - the eHealth case Organisation: eHealth-platform Country: Belgium Justification: The eHealth solution benefits public and private bodies - including (not exclusively) pharmacy, doctor cabinets, and hospitals - to an impressive extent. It is a comprehensive service provided throughout the platform and mobile applications with considerable impact on citizens. The documentation is available to both users and developers willing to improve the platform. |
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2nd place Solution name: GATE of MAZOVIA Organisation: Mazowieckie Voivodeship Country: Poland Justification: GATE of MAZOVIA’s impact is significant, and it has a good level of reuse reaching 314 Polish public administrations and providing 1500 services. In addition to the impact generated at the local level, the governance model is considerable in terms of user-centricity, community orientation and openness. |
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Solution name: Suomi.fi e-Authorizations Organisation: Population Register Centre Country: Finland Justification: Suomi.fi e-Authorizations is widely reused, its documentation is available in English, and it has scalability potential. In addition, the solution is socially innovative and fills a gap in many e-authorisation/signatures operations, which is increasingly needed in our society. |
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Solution name: Data Intermediation Platform and SCSPv3 Portfolio (DIP) Organisation: General Secretariat for Digital Administration - SGAD Country: Spain Justification: DIP service connects a large number of different levels of administrations and has proven record of reuse. As a result, it generates a positive impact on citizens. In addition, the solution supports the implementation of the Once Only Principle (OOP) in the Spanish government with all the associated benefits in terms of administrative simplification for citizens. |