As part of its accession to the OGP, Denmark developed a one-year action plan for open government activities. The action plan, presented at an ‘Open Government Partnership High Level Meeting’, in Brazil, on 17-18 April 2012, is based on inputs from a broad consultation process, in which citizens, companies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public authorities were invited to propose initiatives and activities. The Danish Agency for Digitisation is responsible for the overall coordination of the Danish work with OGP.
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Public administrations on Denmark are required to be able to accept both the Open Document Format (ODF) and a private IT vendor's alternative OOXML. "I don't know how other public administrations in Denmark handle this requirement, but for our department it is the reason to switch to LibreOffice." says the responsible executive secretary of the Department in question Thomas Ginnerup-Nielsen.
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The project starts at the beginning of 2012 and runs for two years. Four hospitals in the Capital Region (Region Hovedstaden, in Danish) and the Central Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland, in Danish) are participating in the project with up to ten municipalities and a number of practitioners across the country. It will produce a database that records information on patients while they remain at home. Health professionals in all sectors will have access to patient data from their own computer and can quickly decide whether there is a need to adjust the patient's medication. The patients represent five different groups: COPD (emphysema), diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases and pregnant women with and without complications.
Sundhed.dk has evolved continuously since its launch in December 2003, including the comprehensive technical upgrade of 2009. It now has thousands of articles and many options with comprehensive data, and the quality of its information has over the past eight years led to many loyal users. However, the presentation and structure had remained much the same since the portal's launch, with some users finding it messy, boring and hard to navigate.
DK: Two new boards at Ministry of Finance to deal with public sector's digitisation and rationalisat
The Digitisation Board will combine the expertise of the previous IT and Telecom Agency and that of the Finance department in order to strengthen the digitisation of the public sector. This Board will be in charge of ensuring that digitisation strategies are implemented to the benefit of citizens and that new digital opportunities are fully exploited.