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| − | This document embodies the intermediate report on the DE4A Doing Business Abroad pilot, providing preliminary conclusions and lessons learned from piloting cross border information exchange in the context of the Single Digital Gateway. It | + | This document embodies the intermediate report on the DE4A Doing Business Abroad pilot, providing preliminary conclusions and lessons learned from piloting the exchange cross border information exchange in the context of the Single Digital Gateway. It is the first of two reports on this matter, covering preparatory activities towards piloting the use cases for Doing Business Abroad. This includes the deployment of DE4A common components, adaption of Member State infrastructure, testing of integrations between Member States and common infrastructure components and involving companies to participate in the pilot. |
| − | + | The main achievement of the Doing Business Abroad piot was the establishment of an international infrastructure for authenticating and authorizing company-representatives, as well as exchanging the evidence about companies from business registers to service providers in other Member States. This achievement was developed and tested in a systematic approach, resulting in a proven and secure operation that can be used for actual piloting the first cross-border use case: registering a company abroad. The established infrastructure can and will be extended with functionality for the second use case: keeping the company data up to date with the service provider. Designs and architectures for the second use case have been completed and impact assessment on national infrastructures have been done as well, providing a good basis for development towards the second part of the pilot. | |
| − | + | These results have been achieved despite many challenges, like the pandemic which limited collaboration between DE4A partners to an on-line fashion. Also many partners involved in DE4A understandably prioritized working on national solutions for - for example - COVID health certificates, providing a continuous challenge resource-allocation for DE4A. These, and other challenges posed risks for DE4A progress and timeline, and even required several partners to terminate their involvement in the programme. Five combinations fo Data Owners and Data Evaluators have fully completed the development and test cycle and are ready to run real pilots. The remaining combinations between other Data Owners and Data Evaluators will be ready later in 2022. | |
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== Other Chapters == | == Other Chapters == | ||
Revision as of 14:05, 31 January 2022
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Executive Summary
All project deliverables will have an Executive Summary.
- For the Executive Summary, all deliverables should follow these guidlelines:
- Length: please limit the Executive Summary to 1 page (2 pages in exceptional cases).
- ALL deliverables must have conclusions at the end of the document.
- Goal: The Executive summary is not an “introduction” to the deliverable. The main goal of this section is to provide readers with a whole picture of the document (i.e. the abstract section from the papers), so that they can understand the content of the deliverable at once without further reading.
- Self-contained: If there is any input coming from other deliverables, it must be mentioned here.
- Motivation for the reader (Recommended: 1 –10 lines):
- What is the reason for being for this deliverable? Which challenges it addresses?
- What will the reader will learn from it?
- Main results and findings (Recommended: 5 to 50 lines):
- What are the main results achieved?
- How does it contribute in the DE4A context?
- Short conclusions (Recommended: 1 to 10 lines):
- Key takeaway messages
- Style: Please use a formal and practical writing style without jargon.
This document embodies the intermediate report on the DE4A Doing Business Abroad pilot, providing preliminary conclusions and lessons learned from piloting the exchange cross border information exchange in the context of the Single Digital Gateway. It is the first of two reports on this matter, covering preparatory activities towards piloting the use cases for Doing Business Abroad. This includes the deployment of DE4A common components, adaption of Member State infrastructure, testing of integrations between Member States and common infrastructure components and involving companies to participate in the pilot.
The main achievement of the Doing Business Abroad piot was the establishment of an international infrastructure for authenticating and authorizing company-representatives, as well as exchanging the evidence about companies from business registers to service providers in other Member States. This achievement was developed and tested in a systematic approach, resulting in a proven and secure operation that can be used for actual piloting the first cross-border use case: registering a company abroad. The established infrastructure can and will be extended with functionality for the second use case: keeping the company data up to date with the service provider. Designs and architectures for the second use case have been completed and impact assessment on national infrastructures have been done as well, providing a good basis for development towards the second part of the pilot.
These results have been achieved despite many challenges, like the pandemic which limited collaboration between DE4A partners to an on-line fashion. Also many partners involved in DE4A understandably prioritized working on national solutions for - for example - COVID health certificates, providing a continuous challenge resource-allocation for DE4A. These, and other challenges posed risks for DE4A progress and timeline, and even required several partners to terminate their involvement in the programme. Five combinations fo Data Owners and Data Evaluators have fully completed the development and test cycle and are ready to run real pilots. The remaining combinations between other Data Owners and Data Evaluators will be ready later in 2022.
Evaluation of all preparatory activities regarding the implementation of the infrastructure to support SDG-use cases for companies, have led to important (preliminary) conclusions and lessons learned. Arguably the most important conclusion would be that the DE4A components used to facilitate the pilot for the SDG use cases, proved deployable and implementable without any major or unexpected difficulties. Several tests have confirmed that the solution works, and does what it is supposed to do: facilitate the cross-border request and exchange of evidence about companies.
Doing Business Abroad partners all faced different (local) challenges when implementing the international solution. These challenges were both technical and organizational, and lead to different velocities per Member State, when implementing the DE4A solutions. Using a general implementation approach where complexity was introduced gradually, turned out very helpful. By aiming for increasingly complex milestones, partners could organize and focus their implementation-activities, and confirm their results with other Member States before commencing the next plateau in the implementation. The approach also helped with the coordination and communication within Member States, as usually several authorities will be involved when implementing the SDG. Installing a project-team on Member State level, supervising and directing project-resources from different national authorities would be advisable.