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<title>Estonian presidency in the EU: the FSFE asks for truly interoperable IT services in public sector</title>
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<h1>Estonian presidency in the EU: the FSFE asks for truly interoperable IT services in public sector</h1>
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<p>The FSFE submitted its comments for the upcoming
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Tallinn Declaration for e-government drafted by the Estonian presidency
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of the Council of the EU. Therein the FSFE asks the current Estonian
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presidency to promote greater inclusion of Free Software in delivering
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truly inclusive, trustworthy and interoperable digital services to all
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citizens and businesses across the EU. The Tallinn Declaration will be
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signed by EU ministers in October 2017, expressing member states' joint
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vision for e-government and political commitment to follow the goals set.
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The proposal for Tallinn declaration is open for public comments until 14 July.
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The FSFE is asking organisations, companies, and individuals to let EU
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ministers know how Free Software is important for transparent and accountable
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e-government.</p>
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<p>Since 1 July, Estonia is holding its presidency of the Council of the
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EU. The presidency is responsible for driving forward the Council's work
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on EU legislation, ensuring the continuity of the EU agenda, orderly
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legislative processes and cooperation among member states. As part of
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its presidency, Estonia has set up a goal to make strong progress on
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the development of public digital services in Europe.</p>
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<p>The Estonian presidency is currently planning to bring forward an e-government
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roadmap for both the national as well as EU levels, through <a href="https://www.mkm.ee/en/news/your-ideas-next-ministerial-declaration-digital-government">ministerial declaration</a>
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signed by e-government ministers across the EU. Several policy
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proposals indicated in the Tallinn Declaration will shape the future
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EU policy in this domain.</p>
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<p>The Estonian presidency released a <a href="https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/">proposal for the declaration</a>
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for public consultation. One of the key points therein says that:</p>
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<p>"Public services and IT systems should be interoperable across organisations
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and platforms".</p>
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<p>Amongst other things, this should be achieved by "opening up"
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government data and services. Another key point suggests that:</p>
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<p>"Citizens should also have a right to algorithmic accountability
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and transparency, such that citizens can understand and challenge decisions
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based on algorithms".</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>The FSFE believes that the Estonian presidency should follow Estonia's
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/EU_Policies_overview_FS#Estonia">own example</a>
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of building open and interoperable public IT services with Free Software,
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and go further to explicitly acknowledge the importance that Free Software
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and Open Standards play in providing reusable, transparent and accountable
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solutions in the public sector across EU member states.</p>
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<p>The FSFE extends a continuous pressure to open up government data and
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services into the release of software that is used for governmental e-services.
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The opening of data also means the opening of rules and modules that
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produce that data, complements it and underpins public decisions. Without
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that important resource, true algorithmic transparency and accountability
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is not possible. Hence, the FSFE demands that all publicly funded software
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that is underpinning public digital services is made publicly available
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as Free Software. Only then, increased trust in e-government can be achieved. </p>
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<h2>Our amendments and how you can help</h2>
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<p>In summary, the FSFE asks the authors of the Tallinn Declaration
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to amend and include the following points:</p>
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<li>Give preference to Open Standards, including for data interchange,
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as in line with the European Interoperability Framework. Open Standards
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can only be called open if they allow implementations in Free Software.</li>
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<li>Allow citizens and enterprises to access, edit and port their data
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owned by public administration in Open Standards and open formats. Software
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developed by and for public administration has to be published as Free
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Software in order to guarantee algorithmic accountability and transparency.</li>
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<li>Continue the progress in opening up government data and services,
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including software, starting from extending the scope of the Public Sector
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Information directive (PSI) to data and software privately held, but of
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public interest. PSI also needs to be extended to source code of public s
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oftware that needs to be released under Free/Open Source Software licences.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Please see our full comments for Tallinn declaration <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/policy/letters/20170621-FSFE-Tallinn-Declaration.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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<p>The proposal is open for public comments until <strong>14 July</strong>,
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which will then be presented to the member states as an input in the preparation
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of the declaration to define future EU policy on digital government.
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The FSFE encourages organisations, companies, and individuals to submit
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comments and directly participate in the EU policy making. Feel free
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to reuse the arguments laid out above for your own submission and tell
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the EU ministers how Free Software and Open Standards are important for
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trustworthy, interoperable and transparent digital government.</p>
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