Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kristen Michal met on December 17th with the Swedish minister for housing, urban development and information technology, Mehmet Kaplan, to share the Estonian X-Road data exchange layer experience and discuss launch of cooperation in e-services and data exchanges, informs LETA/BNS.
"Estonia has set the course towards leading the creation of a single digital market in the Baltic and Nordic countries. We have created a joint X-Road platform with Finland and recently digitally signed an agreement on cyber security cooperation between the three Baltic states. At today's meeting we discussed with the Swedish minister possibilities for simplifying cross-border business and movement of individuals between Estonia and Sweden with the help of e-services," Michal said.
Swedish public sector procurement organisation creates a framework to make it easier for organisations to offer digital services
Sweden’s legal, financial and administrative services agency, Kammarkollegiet, which suports public sector procurement, is investing in more flexible IT and digitalised services after signing a new framework agreement.
Read more: Framework agreement boosts public-sector digitisation in Sweden
Thanks to this initiative the citizens of Värmland have now access to approximately 100 eServices, making it easier for them to handle their administrative matters. Karlstad municipality, another municipality in Värmland county has for some years been offering to its citizens access to electronic services. The most popular ones are those applying for preschool places, civil marriage and parking permits.
Read more: SE: Värmland County: Grums’ municipality launches its electronic services
The Agency reached these conclusions in its evaluation of the E-Delegation (E-delegationen, in Swedish), the body tasked to streamline and develop eGovernment in Sweden. The evaluation, published on 31 March 2014, shows that eGovernment is central to the management policy development. Heads of agencies believe that eGovernment is an important issue but they have a great need for support, both technical and legal. In order to provide a digital collaboration in public administration also requires that the common digital development priority for the government as a whole.
Read more: SE: Great opportunities to improve eGovernment efficiency, report concludes
eRetailers say that they encounter many obstacles and face uncertainty when dealing with cross-border eCommerce. Moreover, there is a great need for accessible information about what applies when selling over the Internet a product to a customer from a different country from the retailer’s place of operation. Therefore, the STC developed a free-of-charge web-based eCommerce guide that can be viewed online upon registration and by filling in a form for access request to this specific service.