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Freitag, 18.10.2024
Transforming Government since 2001

BE: Belgien / Belgium

  • Belgien setzt beim elektronischen Ausweis auf Steria

    Der europäische IT-Dienstleister Steria liefert an alle 589 belgischen Kommunen IT-Infrastruktur und Dienstleistungen für den Einsatz des elektronischen Ausweissystems (BELPIC). Bis Ende 2009 sollen 8,5 Millionen belgische Bürger im Besitz des neuen elektronischen Ausweises sein. Die sichere und skalierbare Karte ermöglicht künftig die Authentifizierung des Inhabers bei elektronischen Transaktionen.

  • Belgien: Internet-Anschluss am Krankenbett

    Ein Internet-Anschluss an jedem Krankenbett gehört seit neuestem zum Angebot des Sint-Lucas-Hospitals im belgischen Brügge.

  • Belgien: Provinz Lüttich beteiligt sich an »E-Government-Aktionsplan«

    Die Provinz Lüttich beteiligt sich am »E-Government-Aktionsplan«, der von der Wallonischen Region zugunsten der Bürger entwickelt wurde. Seit einigen Jahren hat die Provinz Lüttich für ihre Verwaltung ein internes Intranet aufgebaut, das sich auf die neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien stützt.

    Über die Internet Web-Site www.prov-liege.be haben die Einwohner der Provinz Lüttich die Möglichkeit, die verschiedenen Abteilungen und auch die Beihilfen der provinzialen Einrichtungen abzurufen, aber auch Fragen zu stellen, Erläuterungen anzufordern und die passenden Antworten zu erhalten.

  • Belgien: Raeren erhielt gestern Gütesiegel für Bürgernähe

    Der wallonische Innenminister Charles Michel hat gestern in Lüttich die Gütesiegel für Bürgernähe an 32 der insgesamt 84 Gemeinden der Provinz verliehen. Als einzige Kommune aus der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft durfte die Großgemeinde Raeren die Plakette »Commune à bras ouverts« entgegennehmen.

    Neben u.a. Aubel, Aywaille, Chaudfontaine, Soumagne und Visé wurde auch die Eupener Nachbargemeinde Welkenraedt ausgezeichnet.

  • Belgische ePässe ohne Autorisierung auslesbar

    Die in Belgien zwischen Ende 2004 und Juli 2006 herausgegebene erste Generation von Reisepässen mit integriertem RFID-Chip weisen keinerlei Schutzfunktionen auf, um ein unautorisiertes Auslesen zu verhindern. Wie ein belgisches Forscherteam der Catholic University of Louvain aufdeckte, ist es auf sehr einfache Weise möglich, die auf dem Chip gespeicherten Daten vom Besitzer in wenigen Sekunden unbemerkt auszulesen – neben dem Foto auch die digitalisierte Unterschrift des Passinhabers. Eigentlich sollte die von der internationalen Luftfahrtorganisation ICAO vorgeschlagene Basic Access Control (BAC) das unautorisierte Auslesen der Daten durch kryptografische Funktionen verhindern.

  • Belgisches Finanzamt beobachtet Online-Aktivitäten

    Steuersünder sollten Social-Network-Aktivitäten im Auge behalten: Laut einem Bericht der Tageszeitung De Morgen beobachtet der belgische Fiskus eBay-Aktivitäten sowie Profile auf Facebook, Netlog und anderen Online-Treffpunkten. Die dort gefundenen Informationen haben zwar keine Beweiskraft, können aber bei offensichtlicher Differenz zwischen Einkommen und Lebensstil verschärfte Aufmerksamkeit der Steuerfahnder nach sich ziehen. "Es ist technisch möglich, es ist legal, es passiert", zitiert TechCrunch den Leiter der Behörde.

  • Belgisches Finanzministerium vereinfacht Steuerverwaltung

    Im Rahmen seines Coperfin-Programms hat das belgische Finanzministerium den europäischen IT-Dienstleister Steria damit beauftragt, ein integriertes System für die Verwaltung der Steuererklärungen von Bürgern und Unternehmen einzurichten. Der Dreijahresvertrag für die erste Phase der Systemimplementierung, die in Kooperation mit CSC durchgeführt wird, hat ein Volumen von 12,5 Millionen Euro. Diese Vereinbarung unterstreicht erneut die führende Rolle von Steria bei der Modernisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltungssysteme in Europa. Das Unternehmen hat bereits vergleichbare Projekte für das französische Wirtschafts- und Finanzministerium übernommen.

  • Belgium adopts OpenDocument

    Belgium may become the first national government to mandate the use of the Open Document Format (ODF), with a full-scale trial to begin next year.

    Belgium's Council of Ministers on Friday approved a proposal that could see ODF adopted for all document exchange. The move follows similar tests by other government bodies, such as the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, and the endorsement of ODF by OASIS and its adoption as a standard by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization.

  • Belgium launches multipurpose ID cards

    Scheme includes cards for children that act both as an identification document and a form of protection

    Ministers grappling with the technical and political problems of electronic identity cards are looking with interest at the experience of a close continental neighbour. The government of Belgium expects to be the first to issue multipurpose national chip cards to all citizens and residents.

  • Belgium to embrace Open Document Format

    The federal government of Belgium plans to switch to the Open Document Format (ODF) by September 2008. The move could bode ill for Microsoft, since the company's Office products do not support the format.

    Belgium is aiming to prevent a vendor lock-in, allowing the state to access data with any application that supports the open format. It is the first nation to openly embrace ODF.

  • Belgium: Information Sharing: For Better Public Services

    The Belgium Minister of Employment and eGovernment, Peter Vanvelthoven outlines his country's philosophical approach to data sharing.

    Information sharing is one of the basic principles of the Belgian eGovernment. Given the complex Belgian political structure with the Federal Government, five regional Governments, 10 Provinces and 589 local authorities, information sharing is essential, if not a citizen or a company will have major difficulties in finding his or her way in this forest of administrations. Even more, given the way how responsibilities have been divided among the different authority levels, an end-to-end service cannot be delivered to the citizen or enterprise if the different administrations at the different political layers do not cooperate and do not share information.

  • Belgium's e-employee registration

    From 1 January 2006, companies in Belgium will be able to register employees electronically in the event of accidents at work, paternal leave, professional illness, unemployment and other incapacity to work.

    Additionally, from 1 July 2006, employers will be also able to register those employees made redundant by electronic forms.

    Belgium's Employment and E-Government Minister Peter Vanvelthoven said the new changes are part of a fourth phase in the government's e-social security program.

  • Belgium's E-Government Electronic Identity Card Program

    Belgium's Electronic Identity (eID) initiative is helping to improve government efficiency, reduce paperwork and make interactions with Belgian citizens quicker and more secure. Currently, more than 1 million Belgians have eID cards and additional cards are being issued at a rate of 150,000 cards per month. The Belgian government estimates that by the end of 2009, 8,2 million citizens age 12 years and older will have eID cards, based on Java Card technology, allowing them to access enhanced government and enterprise services.

  • Citymesh heads €3.9m EU smart-city project with 5G build in Belgium

    Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has said its smart-city consortium project with the city of Wavre in Belgium has received a €3.9 million grant from the European Digital Fund to build a private 5G network to make the city, a half hour from the EU HQ in Brussels, a greener and smarter city. The funding is from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to support the region’s digital transformation through to 2027.

    The consortium project, under the name CONNECTOW, outlines the construction of a city-owned 5G network for “leading-edge use cases and visionary applications”, nominally geared to support local socio-economic drivers (SEDs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs). The city wants “an innovative, greener and more energy-efficient, progressive and connected environment”, a statement said.

  • Cloud computing in Belgium: a grey picture

    Organisations in Belgium and Luxembourg are turning to the cloud for their IT, but there are striking differences in the level of take-up within the region

    Some 44% of Belgian companies with more than 50 staff make use of the public cloud for one or more IT solutions.

    Flemish companies are far more active users than their counterparts in Brussels and Wallonia, while Luxembourg, a renowned datacentre country, lags even further behind.

  • Crisis communication platform keeps Belgian citizens informed amid Covid-19 outbreak

    The municipality of Aalter is using the Ezkoms platform to keep its citizens informed 24-7 with additional data sources of approved information to protect lives and ease anxiety.

    The Belgian municipality of Aalter has upgraded its public services communication technology to help the public sector efficiently communicate with citizens and to keep them safe and informed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Digital Belgium plan proposes tax breaks for start-ups

    Belgium's Digital Agenda minister Alexander de Croo has launched a new plan for expanding the digital economy in Belgium. Croo said the government's 'Digital Belgium' plan aims to put the country in the top three of the EU's Digital Economy and Society Index by 2020. Belgium ranked fifth in the most recent version of the index, based mainly on data from 2014.

    De Croo's plan include five priorities. The first aims to strengthen investment in digital infrastructure. This will include earlier announced plans aimed at making it easier to switch fixed network provider, as well as regulation aimed at making easier to roll out next-generation broadband infrastructure and to ensure a level playing field in the market.

  • EU bank to further finance Belgian smart cities

    An extended partnership has been signed between the European Investment Bank and Belgian bank, Belfius, to finance €400 million of smart city initiatives throughout Belgium.

    The new programme, Smart Cities, Climate Action & Circular Economy II,will help local authorities, inter-municipal groupings and non-commercial organisations in the social and education sectors in Belgium to implement their smart and sustainable projects by granting finance on favourable terms.

  • EU: Four cities chosen to pilot digital rights framework

    The cities will receive technical advice, ad hoc support, and advisory input to address the pressing challenges related to the ethical and digital rights aspects of their local digital strategies and projects.

    Belgian capital Brussels, Dublin, Ireland, Sofia, in Bulgaria and Tirana, in Albania have been chosen to pilot the Digital Rights Governance Framework.

    The framework focuses on the local safeguarding of human rights in the digital context of city governments.

  • EUR 1bn already allocated to the development of smart and sustainable cities in Belgium thanks to EIB-Belfius partnership

    In concrete terms, this constitutes 121 projects benefiting more than 2 million people

    “Smart Cities, Climate Action & Circular Economy II” has been launched with an additional EUR 400m to support ever smarter, more sustainable and circular projects helping to combat global warming

    The EIB and Belfius are cementing their partnership and are both supporting local authorities in the implementation of their projects and according to their needs

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