EGIZ

E-Government Innovationszentrum

The E-Government Innovation Centre ("E-Government Innovationszentrum - EGIZ") has been established in 2005 as a joint inititvie of the Federal Chancellery Austria and IAIK at Graz University of Technology. Since then EGIZ supports the Chancellery in the development of an ICT federal strategy and carries out technical research in the field of eGovernment.

Mission

The main areas of focus of the EGIZ include:

• education and training,
• strategic and technical consulting for public administration,
• support and promotion of synergies with the private sector,
• interoperability on national and international level, and
• participating in international collaborative projects.
  

STORK

EGIZ is a partner in the Large Scale Pilot "Secure Identity Across Borders Linked - STORK". This project under the EU ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) brings together 14 EU and EEA Member States plus Iceland to pilot interoperability of national electronic identity (eID) programmes.

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SPOCS

SPOCS (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services) is the second ICT-PSP Large Scale Pilot EGIZ contributes to. The project supports implementation of electronic procedured defined in the EU Services Directive.

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Open Source Platform and Projects

Most of the results created by EGIZ is available as open source in order to foster dissemination of e-Government developments. Additionally, an own open source platform was introduced which is run by EGIZ.

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Further Info

Further information in EGIZ can be found at www.egiz.gv.at (in German)