eGovernment in Austria
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The requirement in the eGovernment Act (E-Government-Gesetz, or E-GovG) specifying
that the citizen card must contain a qualified electronic signature (§ 2 L 10 E-GovG),
ensures the citizen card functionality. Together with it the electronic signature as the legal
equivalent of a handwritten signature, has unlimited uses in business and international
affairs.
Since the end of 2009 citizens are able to choose between two different citizen card
options. The first is the well-known card-based option, in which e.g. the eCard is activated
as a citizen card. Their other choice is a mobile phone solution called the 'mobile phone
signature'. The mobile phone signature (citizen card function on the mobile phone) was
developed with support of the EU Commission in the large EU pilot project on
interoperability of electronic identities called 'STORK'. It was activated during the last
quarter in 2009. This solution makes it possible to use electronic signatures with a mobile
phone. In contrast to the card-based citizen card, installing software and additional
hardware (card reader) is no longer necessary.
eGovLabs
- joinup
Many eGovernment applications use modules for online applications (MOA), software
components that encapsulate all the procedures needed to carry out specific functions,
including verifying and affixing electronic signatures, reading identification data from the
citizen card and delivering notifications from authorities. For this reason, the software is
continually maintained in a collaborative process and upgraded to fulfil new requirements.
For this purpose, the eGovLabs platform was created for the developer community so that
feature and change requests, error reports and enhancements could be collaborated on in a
structured manner. The modules and all their versions, including the source code, are
available on this open source repository.In order to underline the European dimension and
the cross-border usability, eGovLabs has been shifted to the EU JOINUP open source
platform.
eProcurement
PEP online
The public procurement platform (PEP-Online) gives the opportunity to public buyers in
Austria and Croatia to electronically provide interested suppliers with
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