News 2012-2001
2012
In February 2012
, all tax offices in Austria provided the activation of the mobile phone
signature, free of charge in order to make the assessment of income tax easier. The
mobile phone signature, which is the mobile version of the Citizen Card, was first
introduced in Austria in December 2009.
In May 2012
, the new Business Service Portal (
Unternehmensserviceportal - USP
)
became fully operational. This portal includes multiple new applications in order to serve
as a single entry point for businesses, providing them with online information and a
single channel for their transactions with the public authorities.
In May 2012,
all content and existing projects of the former Austrian open-source
platform
www.egovlabs.gv.at
, like the MOA-ID/SP/SS (modules for online application
(MOA) - identification (ID), signature verification (SP), server signature (SS)) were
transferred to the open source platform Joinup (formerly OSOR) of the European
Commission (DIGIT department). Joinup was created as part of the ISA program with
the same intention like egovlabs as an open source platform to support cross-sector and
cross-border collaboration and offers several services that aim to help e-Government
professionals share their experience with interoperability solutions.
In April 2012
, the
Open Government Data Portal
was launched. With this step the
Austrian public administration agreed to publish non-personal and not infrastructure-
critical data resources held by public bodies. At the moment (March 2014) there are
nearly 1200 data sets published by 25 institutions. The '
Framework for Open
Government Data platforms
' and the '
Metadata Structure
' have been jointly agreed by
all the actors working together in the Open Government Data Cooperation network
In
September 2012
the Data Registry went online. All data processing registrations are
from now on only accepted in electronic form. It is accessible 24/7 worldwide.
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