Digital identity, public services, procurement and the studios modernising government. Coverage from Continental Brief.
Software Heritage, UNESCO and the UN's digital office have unveiled the Public Code Observatory, a new platform designed to document how governments worldwide participate in open source development and deployment.
Bangladesh has unveiled NRDEX, a national data exchange system modelled on Estonia's X-Road, to enable secure information sharing across government agencies and accelerate digital public services.
Treating open data as a one-time publishing exercise misses the point, argues Mykhailo Kornieiev of the e-Governance Academy. Real maturity comes from managing datasets as products, with clear ownership, quality standards and continuous monitoring.
As governments expand digital services and international partnerships, clear rules on data use, access and oversight have become essential to maintaining public confidence and preventing data colonialism.
A joint managed service from the payments firm and German identity provider aims to simplify how banks connect to Europe's fragmented digital wallet landscape ahead of mandatory adoption deadlines.
Officials from Bangladesh explored Estonia's approach to unified identity management and data interoperability during an August 2026 study visit, seeking to modernise their own public administration systems.
Italy has adopted a national framework for testing its IT Wallet, establishing governance structures and technical standards ahead of alignment with the European Digital Identity framework.
Romania has made its new chip-based digital identity (CEI) available across the country, marking the next phase of a transition away from traditional paper documents toward secure, digitally-enabled credentials aligned with EU standards.
The propulsion systems manufacturer is using Europe's flagship supercomputer to cut simulation times and scale up computational capacity for demanding maritime engineering projects.
The new system, ranked 31st globally, will serve as the computational engine for Greece's AI Factory and support research across healthcare, climate science and other domains across the continent.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has elected Sinéad Ryan of Trinity College Dublin as Chair of its User Forum Coordination Group, with Maria Girone from CERN openlab continuing as Vice-Chair in a new co-leadership arrangement.