Vote for DIGIT's projects competing for the European Ombudsman Award for Good Administration 2023

 

Introduced in 2017, the European Ombudsman Award for Good Administration award recognises actions by the EU public service that have a visible and positive impact on the lives of citizens and aims to encourage the sharing of good ideas and practices. This year there are 57 submissions, and DIGIT’s projects are competing in two categories: excellence in innovation and excellence in open administration. 

Learn more about DIGIT’s projects and vote for your favourite. You can choose only one project to support. 

 

02. Boosting decision-making efficiency using IT

IT development is costly, and you must ensure that your product delivers the maximum value for its users, the businesses, as well as for the technical team behind it. What if you had a tool that helps you decide what will bring the maximum value for the least cost? That is what the Effort/Value Matrix, a handy tool developed by DIGIT is all about. It helps to identify in a visual way the next priority that the team should focus on. The concept is quite simple – the less effort a feature requires to be delivered and the higher value it would bring, the more likely it is to become the chosen option.

 

14. Encouraging better project management in public administrations

PM² is a Project Management Methodology developed at the European Commission and used in most European Institutions, bodies and agencies. It is included as a solution in the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Toolbox and is considered essential knowledge for the Project Manager according to the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) multilingual classification. PM² is an open, complete, mature, inclusive, holistic, common, lean, scalable and adaptive methodology available to the EU Member States and beyond, to improve the way projects are organised (governance, lifecycle, processes, artefacts and mindsets) and achieve improved efficiency and effectiveness with better quality outputs, delivered on time and at a reduced cost for the European stakeholders.   

 

37. Reducing red tape in cross-border administrative procedures

The Once-Only Technical System, developed by Directorate-General for Informatics and Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (DG GROW), lets EU public authorities securely exchange official documents and data at the request of citizens and businesses as part of cross-border administrative procedures. For the EU citizens and businesses this means that they will need to submit a certain documentation to the authorities or the administration only once when they are, for example, registering an address or a vehicle, or when moving abroad. This innovative system eliminates the complicated manual search, mapping, and fetching of data between Member State authorities, improving efficiency, making people’s lives easier, and reducing the costs of mobility in the EU Single Market. 

 

DIGIT’s teams took part in the development of more projects, including:

17. Discover EU projects in you region

Launched in 2022, and available in the 24 EU languages, Kohesio is a comprehensive knowledge database offering easy and transparent access to up-to-date information on all projects and beneficiaries co-funded by the EU’s cohesion policy. It contains over 1.7 million projects and 500,000 beneficiaries for the funding period 2014-2020. Users can discover EU-funded projects in their region or cities through the main map or perform specific searches via the project research page. Kohesio was built in partnership with the managing authorities in the different Member States and DG REGIO, DG CNECT, and DG DIGIT were all involved in its development. New features and data are continually being added to make it even more user-friendly. 

Vote is open until Sunday 14 June 2023 at 23.59 CEST. 

Winners will be announced during a ceremony which will take place in Brussels on 28 June from 10.00 to 12.00 CEST.