ISA2 MID-TERM CONFERENCE Linking public administrations, businesses and citizens Implementation of the European Interoperability Framework in Spain

1. ISA2
Mid-term Conference
29 November 2018
Implementation of the European Interoperability
Framework in Spain
Text of the presentation by Miguel A. Amutio
Contents
1. Opening and contents of my presentation......................................................................2
2. An ideal scenario for interoperability..............................................................................2
3. A global approach to interoperability .............................................................................2
4. The EIF, a reference for the NIF of Spain.........................................................................4
5. Alignment with the EIF v2..............................................................................................5
6. Follow up of ISA2
actions & reuse...................................................................................5
7. IOP, a continuous & never endingeffort.........................................................................6
8. A sustained effort along the time...................................................................................7
9. Dashboard – alsofor Interoperability.............................................................................7
10. Thank you very much.................................................................................................7

2. 1. Opening and contents of my presentation
Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. I appreciate the opportunity to talk in
this ISA2 Conference.
Spain is doing a considerable effort in the implementation of eGovernment in
general and in interoperability in particular, aligned with the EIF, with evidences
of progress shown in the eGovernment Benchmark, the DESI, the NIFO
factsheets, the Open Data Maturity Study and other monitoring exercises.
And the questions are: which are the key factors? How are we doing it? Why
would Spain be a case of interest in the field of eGovernment and
Interoperability?
2. An ideal scenario for interoperability
Look, first of all, because Spain is an ideal scenario for interoperability.
The provision of digital public services in Spain involves multiple actors,
different in their powers and interactions amongst them: the General State
Administration, seventeen (17) regional governments and two (2) autonomous
cities, plus over eight thousand (8,000) local entities, public universities and
other entities under public law.
This means we have to cope with diversity and complexity.
And we understood that strong cooperation, essential to provide better
quality services to citizens and in a more efficient, effective and transparent
way, requires strong interoperability. Surely we could say it the other way
round.
3. A global approach to interoperability
So, how do we manage to achieve this cooperation and interoperability?
In the end, it is the result of the collective and multidisciplinary effort based
on the dynamic interaction and evolution of three main issues:
The legal framework:

3. We have developed an exhaustive legal framework which covers all the
areas related to digital public services and that provides legal certainty.
Together with an intense normative development in provisions of lower rank and
supporting documents.
This legal layer, the rules of the game:
- Allows a large scale expansion of services.
- Contributes to fight reluctance to change.
Indeed, interoperability has become one of the principles included in the
Public Legal System, and it happens that things that used to be parto of the NIF
appear now in the upper legal layer.
Without the proper legal framework there is no legal certainty. With only the
legal framework there is only paper.
Cooperation and Governance:
In spite of the administrative complexity there are cooperation structures that
work.
All public administrations [central, regional, local (through their association of
Spanish local entities, the FEMP) public administrations and public universities
(through their association, the CRUE)] cooperate by means of the Sectorial
Commission of Electronic Administration, whose functions include
ensuring interoperability and cooperation in the delivery of public
services.
Also, the General State Administration has a governance structure with the
participation of all ministries.
And our CIO, the General Secretary of Digital Administration, plays a key role
in the work of those two cooperation and governance structures.
Also there are the forums for public-private cooperation, open to the
participation of society, that allow the management of complex issues for digital
transformation with multiple stakeholders, under the leadership of the
Administration.

4. Without cooperation and governance there is fragmentation of efforts, lack of
economies of scale and no consensus building. With only cooperation there is
only goodwill.
Services:
Without digital services there is no reality in practice.
There is a catalogue of services for digital administration that respond to the
functions defined in the provisions of the legal framework.
These services, offered to all Public Administrations, introduce rationality
and economies of scale and they work as building blocks enabling the
development of more complex services like the Citizen´s Folder.
The use of cloud technology enables particularly the integration of local
entities and small entities.
4. The EIF, a reference for the NIF of Spain
Each one of the three issues we have mentioned, legal framework, cooperation
and governance, and services contribute to interoperability and to the alignment
with the EIF.
We developed our National Interoperability Framework following the wave
of the European Interoperability Framework.
In fact, the EIF has been the reference to structure and develop the multiple
variables and elements of interoperability, and every action was designed in
alignment with the European model, including the notion of the link with
equivalent European instruments.
How do we do that work? The way we work is the following:
 Early alignment, with internal dissemination
 Feedback & contribution.
 Integration in common infrastructures and sectorial services
 Reuse of interoperability assets, solutions, building blocks. We will come
back to this later when talking about the ISA2 actions.

5.  Follow up of monitoring surveys & factsheets
5. Alignment with the EIF v2
The alignment is based on the previous work done with the first version of
the EIF. Together with the work done during the drafting of the EIF v2.
So, What are we doing? The alignment with the EIFv2 is following this
approach:
1. Traffic light and gap analysis of the Principles and
Recommendations. The same approach has been applied to the Tallinn
Declaration and the Regulation on the Single Digital Gateway.
2. Filling out the draft EIFv2 monitoring questionnaire.
3. Providing feedback to the draft EIFv2 monitoring questionnaire: simplify
& clarify.
4. Homework: we will have to work in the areas to be reinforced and in
those ones that offer opportunities for improvement.
6. Follow up of ISA2 actions & reuse
I have mentioned the integration with equivalent European solutions and
building blocks. We follow up the ISA2 WP actions and solutions and identify
correspondences with our own actions. We can say that around 75% of its
actions have a correspondence with actions carried out by our Administration.
The follow up and reuse is made in the following way:
i. Link with operational instruments: in some cases there are operational
links, it is the case of the link of our administrative network RedSARA to the
European network TESTA or the link of our Technology Transfer Center
(CTT) with JOINUP.
ii. Reuse: CIRCABC is reused for our committees and working groups; and the
EUPL, explicitly mentioned in the NIF in many solutions available through
the mentioned CTT.
iii. Implementation of specifications: DCAT-AP has been implemented in the
PSI portal datos.gob.es, federated with the EU Data Portal; ADMS in the

6. Technology Transfer Center (CTT) for the link with JOINUP; and ELI the
European Legislative Identifier under the leadership of the BOE doing an
extraordinary job to implement it in the official diaries in Spain, initiative with
which Mr. John Dann has collaborated actively; he has first-hand knowledge
of the experience in Spain and he will talk in this conference about ELI.
iv. Use of services: CAMSS is being used for the identification of technical
specifications; CAMSS has a long story, we used the criteria for the
selection of specifications defined in the first version some years ago in our
NIF, and it is now ten years since the idea of CAMSS was promoted by Mr.
Per-Olav Gramstad in the IDABC Conference in February 2008.
v. Participation in pilots: Application of EIRA to the Citizen´s Folder, a pilot
with Portugal about CPSV-AP, participation in the pilot EIFv2 monitoring.
vi. Proposing actions to the Work Programme: it is the case of the actions
on a common approach to the exchange of eDocuments and eFiles which
produced the eDocument Reference Architecture; and the action on
representation powers and mandates that I am happy to know that it is of
interest for the project TOOP.
7. IOP, a continuous & never ending effort
Interoperability is a never ending effort that deserves continuous
attention. So, we should:
 Keep the dynamics of the global approach: Legal framework +
cooperation and co-responsibility + common services.
 Keep a collective and multidisciplinary effort, along the time, with
engagement of stakeholders, institutional and professional.
 Keep alignment with the EU: OOP projects, Single Digital Gateway,
ISA2 solutions, building blocks, DEP,…
 Understand opportunities and impact in IOP of emerging
technologies: Blockchain and DLTs, AI, big data, …

7. 8. A sustained effort along the time
What I am presenting here today it´s not been done overnight. You can see in
this slide the long and winding road, with relevant acts and the main milestones
of our developments about OOP.
9. Dashboard – also for Interoperability
Together with the monitoring provided by the dashboard called DATAOBSAE
from our Observatory of Electronic Administration. We share with ISA2 the
importance of quantifying the impact of interoperability.
10. Thank you very much
Thank you very much for your attention.